transform together – the podcast meetup about organizational development

AI can make individuals faster. But can it help teams and organizations create more value?

In this episode of transform together, Johannes Schartau talks with Dave West, former CEO and Product Owner of Scrum.org, about what Scrum, product development and organizational design need to become in the age of AI.

Dave reflects on what he learned during eleven years leading Scrum.org, why Scrum became a convenient villain, what current AI development playbooks get right and what they leave out. He explores how Product Backlogs may shift from task lists toward intent, outcomes, measurement and context, whether much faster learning cycles...

AI is joining our teams. But does adding more agents, more tokens and faster output actually make us smarter together?

In this episode of transform together, Johannes Schartau talks with Dr. Babak Hemmatian, a research associate at Stony Brook University's AI Innovation Institute, about what happens when people and AI reason as a group. Rather than treating AI as a replacement for an individual worker, Babak looks at the relationships among people, agents, information and decisions.

They explore where humans and AI differ in memory, attention and reasoning; how arrangements such as the "centaur" and AI information broker change collaboration;...

Self-organization sounds promising. Until disagreement gets uncomfortable, conflict disappears underground and everyone starts wishing someone would just make a decision.

In this episode of transform together, Johannes Schartau talks with Richard D. Bartlett about how to have better fights: conflicts that bring important differences into the open without destroying trust or relationships.

Richard explains why psychological safety should not mean avoiding disagreement. It should give people enough confidence to be honest, notice anger before it takes over and say what they are trying to protect. When differences can be expressed with both courage and curiosity, conflict becomes a source of...

In this episode of transform together, Johannes Schartau talks with Nancy White about moving from traditional strategic planning toward a more adaptive and participatory “strategic way of being.” They explore why strategy begins with purpose, how the six questions of Strategy Knotworking help groups navigate complexity, and why noticing, learning, and adjusting are more valuable than pretending the future can be planned in detail.

Nancy explains how Liberating Structures such as Ecocycle Planning, Creative Destruction, and Wicked Questions can uncover hidden tensions, challenge comfortable assumptions, and turn disagreement into a source of learning. The conversation also explores why alignment does...