Define the Need, Solve the Problem: An AI-First Playbook for Developers

For many developers, the bottleneck isn't typing speed—it's the friction between a stakeholder's idea and a deployable feature. In this session, we will move beyond basic code generation to apply an AI-First Playbook to the entire Agile lifecycle. Drawing from real-world experiments, I will demonstrate how to use the "Need, Problem, Solution" framework to streamline the critical "peripheral" processes of development. We will cover concrete workflows for transforming messy meeting transcripts into BDD-style user stories, using the "30-Second Wow" to prototype instantly from sketches, and employing AI agents to enforce architectural standards during PR reviews. Learn how to treat AI not just as a tool, but as a teammate that removes delivery friction so you can focus on solving the right problems