Agile Mentors Podcast from Mountain Goat Software · 2026-06-24 · 8 min
Key moments - from our scoring
Substance score
7 / 100
Five dimensions, 20 points each
This episode is a state-of-the-show update from Brian Milner, host of the Agile Mentors podcast. Rather than a typical guest interview, Milner uses the time to announce a seasonal break from new episodes while encouraging listeners to stay subscribed and explore the back catalog of conversations about Scrum, Agile coaching, product ownership, and team dynamics. The core message reinforces that Agile is fundamentally about people and how they work together, not just process. Milner also unveils an exciting new project: People Over Prompts, a separate podcast examining the human dimensions of AI in the workplace. Rather than focusing on AI tools or prompting techniques, the show will explore how AI as a collaborator - not just a tool - reshapes team composition, workflows, decision-making, and accountability. Key questions include what teams look like when AI agents become team members, how humans maintain judgment and creativity in the loop, and what new frameworks might emerge for human-AI collaboration. Listeners interested in the intersection of organizational development and AI integration would benefit from following this emerging conversation.
A specific return date hasn't been announced yet, but the podcast feed will remain active and listeners will be notified when new episodes are ready.
It explores the human side of work in the AI era, focusing on how AI collaboration changes team dynamics, workflows, and decision-making rather than just reviewing AI tools.
No, People Over Prompts is a separate show with a different focus and is not a replacement for the Agile Mentors podcast.
Teams may shift from the traditional 8-10 person cross-functional model to smaller groups of 2-3 people, each with multiple AI agents handling different work areas like research, testing, and documentation.
More details are available at agilityevolves.com/podcast, with a link also provided in the show notes.
Our reviewer’s read on each dimension, with quotes from the episode.
The episode is almost entirely housekeeping and self-promotion with a single underdeveloped idea about AI changing team composition. There are no actionable insights, frameworks, or non-obvious claims a B2B operator could use.
this episode is going to be a little different. No guests today, just me here with you for a few minutes with a quick update about this show
I'm starting a brand new podcast called People Over Prompts
The notion that AI agents might reshape what a 'team' looks like is a mildly interesting framing, but it is expressed only at the surface level and is already a common talking point across the industry with no new angle added.
A team might not always look like eight to 10 people anymore. It might just be two or three people. But each of those two or three people has their own bench of AI agents
Maybe there's even new frameworks on the horizon for how human beings and AI work together on the same team
There are no guests whatsoever; this is a solo host announcement episode with zero practitioner input, making it impossible to score on this dimension beyond the floor.
No guests today, just me here with you for a few minutes with a quick update about this show and what is coming up with it
The entire episode contains no named companies, no data points, no real-world case studies, and no concrete metrics - only vague hypotheticals about team size and AI agents.
Maybe it's that eight to 10 people, cross-functional, working together, shared responsibility
One person might have an AI agent that's helping them do research. Another might have one that helping with testing
This is a solo monologue with no interviewing, no questions asked, no follow-ups, and no intellectual tension of any kind; the entire craft of conversation is absent by design.
please stay subscribed here to the Agile Mentors podcast as well. I don't want you to miss out on the things here. We're taking a break from new episodes for now, but this feed is staying right where it is
Computed from the transcript - who did the talking, and the words that came up most.
The Agile Mentors Podcast is taking a short summer break, but that does not mean the conversation is stopping. In this special update, Brian shares what is ahead for the show and introduces a new podcast exploring one of the biggest questions facing modern teams: what happens when AI becomes part of how work gets done? Overview As the Agile Mentors Podcast pauses new episodes for the summer, Brian takes a few minutes to reflect on what this community has explored together over the years. While Scrum, Agile, product ownership, leadership, and coaching have been recurring topics, the deeper theme has always been people: how teams learn, collaborate, make decisions, and improve over time. Brian also shares details about his new podcast, People Over Prompts, which will focus on the changing relationship between humans and AI at work. As AI moves beyond being a simple tool and becomes a more active collaborator, organizations are being challenged to rethink team structures, workflows, accountability, and decision-making. What does a team look like when every person is supported by multiple AI agents? What responsibilities should remain firmly human?
Transcribed and scored by The B2B Podcast Index.
Welcome in to the Agile Mentors podcast. I'm with you as always here, Brian Milner. And today, this episode is going to be a little different. No guests today, just me here with you for a few minutes with a quick update about this show and what is coming up with it.
As we head into summer, the Agile Mentors podcast is going to take a break from new episodes for a while. Yes, we're going on vacation, just like a lot of you. We don't have a specific return date yet to announce, but the plan is to keep this feed active. So please stay subscribed.
When new episodes are ready, you'll be the first to hear about them right here. And if you're newer to the show and just found us not long ago, This is also a really great time for you to go back through some of the past episodes. There's a lot of conversations there with some really smart people talking about things like Scrum and Agile, coaching, product ownership, leadership, facilitation, team dynamics, and the everyday challenges of helping people work better together. That has always been one of my favorite parts of this podcast.
Yes, we talk about Scrum and yes, we talk about Agile. But underneath all of that, we are usually talking about people, how people learn, how people make decisions, how teams improve over time, how leaders create space for better outcomes. and how we keep coming back to the core idea that Agile is not a process It really a different way of working together So while we on the summer break I hope you will stay subscribed and keep this podcast in your rotation. I also wanna mention something exciting and new that I am working on.
I'm starting a brand new podcast called People Over Prompts. Now, don't let that title fool you in any way. It's not an anti-AI podcast in any way. And I want to be clear that it's not a replacement in any way for the Agile Mentors podcast.
It's a separate show and it has a different focus. People Over Prompts is going to look at the human side of work in this AI era. And one of the big questions that I want to explore through it is, what is a team now? For years, especially in this Agile community, we've had a pretty familiar picture in our heads of what a team looks like.
Maybe it's that eight to 10 people, cross-functional, working together, shared responsibility, learning how to plan and build, test, deliver, and of course, improve over time, get better together. But AI is starting to change that picture. A team might not always look like eight to 10 people anymore. It might just be two or three people.
But each of those two or three people has their own bench of AI agents. One person might have an AI agent that's helping them do research. Another might have one that helping with testing Another might have one that helping with code product discovery backlog refinement documentation, analysis, all the things we do now. And that may have come off wrong.
It's not that each one of these people only have one agent, right? They probably have multiple agents that are running at the same time. So sort of many teams within a team, that changes things. It changes how we think about requirements.
It changes how we verify the work. It changes how we test. It changes how we make decisions. It changes who or what is doing parts of the work.
And I think it also, at a deeper level, changes the team dynamic that many of us have been working with for the past 10, 20 years. If AI is a member of our team now, right, they're joining the team just like anyone else, even if it's in a limited way, then we need to rethink some of our practices. We need to look for new workflows and think about new team agreements. Maybe there's even new frameworks on the horizon for how human beings and AI work together on the same team.
That's a conversation that I am very interested in. not just which AI tool is the newest or what prompting trick I can put in play this week, but how the work itself changes when AI starts acting less like a tool that sitting on the sideline and more like a full collaborator in the flow of work We have to ask questions like where should AI help And where should humans stay firmly in the loop? How do we keep judgment and creativity, accountability, and share an understanding in the hands of humans, of people?
And how do teams adapt when some of their team members are no longer human? That's the space I want to explore with this new podcast, People Over Prompts. So if that sounds interesting to you, then I'd really love for you to be a part of it. I really love for you to join it and come along with us on this journey.
You can find out more about this new podcast at my website, agilityevolves.com slash podcast. Again, that's agilityevolves.com slash podcast.
And we'll put the link to that in our show notes in this episode as well. So you don't have to scramble and write that down. Just come back and find our episode and you'll find that link. But again, I can't stress this enough.
Please stay subscribed here to the Agile Mentors podcast as well. I don't want you to miss out on the things here. We're taking a break from new episodes for now, but this feed is staying right where it is. And when there's more to share here, you'll be the first to find out about it right here.
In the meantime, I just want to say thank you for listening. Thank you for being a part of this community and building what we have built here up to this point. And thank you for caring about really creating a better way of working together. This is Brian Milner, and you have been listening to the Agile Mentors Podcast.
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