Shaving the Yak with AI ➡️ Devs want specs, Product Owners want speed

Shaving the Yak with AI ➡️ Devs want specs, Product Owners want speed with Adam Cogan

Learn how AI can change the game in an important scenario. The age-old battle between Product Owners and Developers rages on: POs push for speed, while devs demand clarity. When specs are too vague, developers waste time making assumptions. When specs are too detailed, POs get bogged down in documentation.

The result? Context switching, frustration, and a backlog filled with half-baked work items.
In this talk, Adam Cogan will show how AI powered tools like YakShaver (for GitHub and Azure DevOps) and recently Loom (for Jira) can act as the ultimate peacemaker.
These tools capture discussions, structuring work items, and ensuring that every backlog item is ready… and assigned to the right backlog—all automatically.
Learn the lessons from deploying AI to solve one of the most persistent struggles in software development. This talk will show you how AI brings balance to your team.
Bonus: See how a solution can be:

• Better with Microsoft Teams to capture audio + video, and leverage Whisper for transcription, all glued together with GPT-4o to generate structured content.
• Have a decision-tree architecture with Semantic Kernel orchestration to enable seamless integration with Azure DevOps, GitHub, and more.

Agenda:
6:00pm - Pizza and networking at SSW Sydney
6:15pm - Tech news with Eve and Adam Cogan 🔴 Livestreamed to the world.
6:30pm - Shaving the Yak with AI ➡️ Devs want specs, Product Owners want speed with Adam Cogan

Can't make it? Join us on the live stream!
➡️ https://www.ssw.com.au/live