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EP 05: Value Engineering vs AI Cost Cutting

10/20/2026 • 39 min

When AI spending lands in the operating budget, the first thing many companies cut is people. This episode explains why that happens and what to do instead. Show Notes Why AI costs end up as headcount cuts: AI token spend is an operating expense, usually charged to IT, and labor is the easiest line to cut once capital and SaaS commitments are locked in. Cost m… Play episode

EP 04: Increasing Decision Capacity Post AI
EP 03: Deliberate and Data-Driven App Modernization
EP 02: The Real Reason 79% of App Modernizations Fail
EP 01: A Working AI Pilot Proves Nothing
How Cloud Rescue Enables Enterprise Transformation
How to Economically Justify Transformation by Cutting Down on Cloud Costs
How the Need for Security is Driving the Need for Transformation
How to Align Your Product-Driven Organization to the Customer Experience
Product Development: Using Systems Thinking to Achieve Better Business Out…
Using Value Stream Maps to Identify Improvement Opportunities
Quantifying Waste Reduction Using Value Stream Maps
An Introduction to Value Stream Mapping
Avoid These Common Cloud Transformation Mistakes
Empathy, Trust, and Alignment: Stakeholder Management Tactics for Agile Le…
4 Truths You Need to Know to Make Agile Work
A Systems Approach to Organizational Change
What Do You Do with Underperforming Team Members?
A Better Way to Approach Culture Change
What Do ScrumMasters Do All Day?
Bringing Agile Home for the Holidays
How to Get Started with a Career in Agile
How to Create Clarity and Unlock the Flow of Value in Large Organizations
Bringing Balance to the Agile Culture Conversation
What Do You Do When One Dev is Slowing You Down?
How to Make Home-Office Hybrid Scrum Teams Work
What Do You Do When Your Product Owner isToo Busy?
How to Overcome Specialized Roles in Scrum and Why it Matters
Exploring the Pros and Cons of Product Goals
An Introduction to Sprint Goals
Balancing Culture With the Need to Produce Results
Exploring Kanban in an Enterprise Environment
Are Dependencies Meant to be Managed or Broken?
From Practices to Principles: The Right Way to Scale Agile
Agile Metrics: Enabling Change with Data Modeling & Forecasting
How to Truly Succeed with Agile Transformation
The Future of Agile Transformation & Change Management
How to Unlock the Benefits of Agile & Get the Most Out of Training Your Te…
Unpacking the SAFe Debate. Is it Agile or Something Else?
Using Intention-Driven Communication
Maximizing the Value of Agile Metrics
Emotional Systems Theory and Leadership
Getting Your Leaders on Board With Agile Transformation
An Executive walks into a Daily Scrum
When the Team Doesn’t Want to Do Agile
Leading in Ambiguity
Industrializing the Agile Transformation Process
Creating win-win opportunities for Junior Talent Regan Jenkins & Lien Nguy…
Understanding Change Management with Melissa Oberg & Dennis Stevens
Corporate Communications in Agile with Tim Zack

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