Don't get left behind: AI Tools for the modern agile professional.

Dear all, I would like to recommend?the?following course AI & Agility: Comprehensive Introduction as a good and soft introduction to understand what it means to leverage on AI Tools to boost your professional journey and the context behind it. Thanks for Nathaniel Koh from my network who shared this last week, hence it appeared on my feed and definitely?thanks to Snehal Talati & Scrum Alliance for the content of the course. This only requests 2,5/3 hours of your time (2,5 SEUs), however it is for me such an interesting discovery.

As we’ve all encountered AI in some form – chatbots, recommended choices, or customized feeds based on cookies, browsing history, and profiles. But this course opened my eyes to AI as a tool to supercharge our work.

Being a Change Agent myself, I believe every digital specialist, agilist, and professional navigating the VUCA world has a responsibility to explore these readily available tools.?

More than tooling, I believe it is actually a new mindset that need to be enabled: I am myself yet convinced about the few examples given in the course which allow to look at AI generated solutions based on how would you feed your AI Tool.

Guess what? This is a part every discovery journey, being uncomfortable about a new solution, trying to figure out new vocabulary and context as long as how to leverage on it…

To make the best use of it, the course?introduce how to leverage on the?CARE?framework (Collaborative goals,?Adding context,?Real-World Application,?Expected-Outcome).?

Basically you will learn how to formulate your request properly to your AI tool (or AI copilot), to be able to evaluate an AI generated solution on your given problem. We are dealing here with team management issues, team performance, asking to spot what would be the best backlog item to focus on knowing the past and current data, asking your tool some tips or alternatives to facilitate meetings that are not reaching the outcome expected..??this is a total new world to me!

What is in for me? (in this course)

Here is what you can expect in this short course:

1. Reminder / introduction about Agile evolution and the groundwork?for AI integration, including Manifesto history and AI brief?history.
2. Practices leveraging on AI.
3. Trends of AI in Agile.
4. List of AI tools.
5. AI & Agility Glossary.

As I am not sure how many of you will enrol the course, I still would like everyone to leverage on the tools introduced along the learning. While I am also processing all the vocabulary and how to build my own “How to leverage on AI generated tool” mindset, would like to ensure I keep this knowledge accessible for my own and for all, hence this article.

Please note that the following links and descriptions are a direct extract from the course, all credits going to Snehal Talati & Scrum Alliance.

Again, I encourage everyone to go through the course to understand why the following tools have been recommended and the context.?

ChatGPT by OpenAI

ChatGPT, developed by OpenAI, is a state-of-the-art language processing AI tool. It’s built on the GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) architecture, enabling it to generate human-like text based on the input it receives. This technology is significant for its wide range of applications, from composing emails to coding assistance, and it has been pivotal in advancing natural language understanding and generation. It serves as an exemplary resource for those interested in AI language models and their practical applications in various sectors.

https://www.openai.com/chatgpt

Claude AI by Anthropic

Claude AI, created by Anthropic, is an advanced conversational AI designed to assist in a variety of text-based interactions. It’s part of a new wave of AI technologies focusing on natural language understanding and generation. While specific capabilities and applications might vary, Claude AI likely offers solutions for content creation, data analysis, and enhanced user interaction. Anthropic’s approach to AI development emphasizes safety and interpretability, making Claude a significant player in the field of responsible AI.

https://www.anthropic.com/

HuggingFace

Hugging Face is an open-source company devoted to developing machine-learning-focused collaboration. They have models, datasets, services, and more that help people integrate AI responsibly into products and workflows. Their mission says that they are working “to democratize good machine learning, one commit at a time.”

https://huggingface.co/

Drawify

Drawify is an online platform that provides users with a unique and interactive way to create visual content. It’s particularly useful for those looking to enhance their presentations, educational materials, or digital storytelling with engaging visuals. The website offers a range of tools and resources to help users easily create custom illustrations and diagrams, making it a valuable resource for educators, business professionals, and creative individuals. Another visual content creation AI tool includes Midjourney.

https://www.drawify.com/

Spinach

Save time on repetitive tasks! Spinach is your AI project manager. Spinach joins meetings, takes notes and captures actions in your existing tools to help you ship faster. Spinach is free for unlimited meetings and users (yes, really!). It takes instant meeting notes so you can stay more engaged, turns any action item into a ticket, remembers what was decided and integrates into your existing tools: “We take notes so you can listen.”

https://www.spinach.io/

LucidSpark

Get inspired with Collaborative AI! Don’t wait for inspiration to strike. Be more proactive, innovative, and productive by using AI to generate ideas, uncover key themes, and rapidly summarize your working sessions. Need a prompt to spark your team’s creativity? Kick off a brainstorming session or project with Collaborative AI. Enter relevant keywords or phrases into the text box, click generate, and watch as AI automatically populates related ideas on your Lucidspark canvas as sticky notes. Go a step further by using AI to uncover key themes. When you click to sort ideas, Lucid’s Collaborative AI moves sticky notes into categories within Containers. That’s where you’ll start to see the big picture as your ideas take shape. Give it a try!

https://lucidspark.com/product/collaborative-ai

Rewind

Rewind is a personalized AI powered by everything you’ve seen, said, or heard. Install it and it will run in the background capturing your screen and audio. Rewind stores your data locally so only you have access. You can rewind meetings to be sure you’ve taken in key points, draft emails, and overcome your mind’s limitations by saving hours each week.

https://www.rewind.ai/

DALL-E 3

Built on ChatGPT, DALL-E3 brings your words to visual life, creating images based on your prompts. If you like a particular image, but it’s not quite right, you can ask ChatGPT to make tweaks with just a few words. From a simple sentence to a detailed paragraph, watch your words come to life.

https://openai.com/dall-e-3

NotebookLM

Created by Google, NotebookLM is a large language personalized AI that works as a virtual research assistant to bring your research together. When you upload the documents that are central to your projects, it instantly becomes an expert in the information that matters most to you; it’s grounded in the information you trust. It moves you more quickly from information to insight, from reading, to asking questions, to writing. You’re in control, with no personal data used to train NotebookLM, and any private or sensitive information will stay protected.

https://notebooklm.google/

Janitor AI

Janitor AI is a groundbreaking role-playing chatbot website. The platform offers a wide range of character options to give users the freedom to engage in conversations with virtual personas of their choice. It’s invaluable for business owners seeking to streamline client interactions and deliver prompt replies. Key features include multi-age interaction, rapid responses, character options, clean API, and automated assistance.

https://janitorai.chat/

Character AI

Character AI is in beta testing (1/2024); it lets you create characters and talk to them. Characters can be anything–the breakthrough AI lets your imagination run free and bring all your ideas to life. Users can save and share their characters in the community so that everyone can talk to Socrates, Steve Jobs, or engage with alternate timelines.

https://beta.character.ai/

CapCut

CapCut is a free, all-in-one video editor with flexible editing, magical AI tools, team collaboration, and stock assets. Their smart tools make your video creation easier, from removing the background to AI color correction or colorizer to resizing your video. Also included are tools to automatically recognize different language and generate high-accuracy captions.

https://www.capcut.com/

Thank for reading, please don't hesitate to share any other tools which boost your performance at work !