đź“ş How to Catch AI Delegation Drift Before Your Board Does
TL;DR: The AI Delegation Audit Webinar RecordingWhen AI-assisted output still looks fine, it is tempting to conclude the delegation is fine. In my October 6 webinar with Scrum.org on the AI Delegation Audit, I walked through a fictional case in which that belief held for months, then fell apart in a board meeting, and…
TL;DR: The AI Delegation Audit Webinar RecordingWhen AI-assisted output still looks fine, it is tempting to conclude the delegation is fine. In my October 6 webinar with Scrum.org on the AI Delegation Audit, I walked through a fictional case in which that belief held for months, then fell apart in a board meeting, and…
Thesis: The AI Delegation Audit is a 45- to 60-minute review in the A3 Delegation System, run like a Sprint Retrospective, that checks whether a team’s AI delegations still hold; the post explains its four checks with a fictional case and shares the Scrum.org webinar recording.
Disclaimer: I read Charniak/McDermott’s book on “Artificial Intelligence” decades ago; of course, I use AI for research, translations, proofreading, challenging story arcs and article structures, and summarization. It is a production tool, not a substitute for thinking.
The Report That Said “No Open Issues”Let me introduce you to the webinar’s use case: At Brandtner Pumps, a fictional manufacturer, project lead Marta has an AI assistant draft her monthly board report from four sources, one of them an agency’s weekly update. By month 10, her review time has shrunk from 60 minutes to 20, and the agency moves its update to a portal, where the PDF’s defect list turns out to be an image. The report says “no open issues.” In her absence, a month later, her deputy sends it without reading it. The whole issue blows up during the board meeting, when the CFO shows the agency’s invoice for 40 hours of “defect resolution,” while the update lists 17 open defects, 5 blocking the pilot launch.
A stop rule existed, yet nobody triggered it, and the deputy did not know it, so the Handoff Canvas still said Assist while the work ran as Automate. A more expensive model doing a better job would have been a guess, since only the input had changed.
In context
- Topic: Proyectos, PMO y Riesgos — Gestión de proyectos, oficinas de proyecto y riesgo del portafolio.
- Source: Scrum.org
- Published: 07/10/2026
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Why it matters
Projects rarely fail on the day they are declared failed. They fail months earlier, in a meeting where somebody saw the problem coming and calculated it was not in their interest to say so. Everything else — the slipping schedule, the stretching budget — is the visible consequence of that silence.
What I look at first in a case like this is not the plan, it is how often it gets corrected. A project that replans every month with fresh data lands far closer than one that spends a year defending the baseline it signed when it knew least.
What usually goes wrong
The classic mistake is treating risk management as a deliverable of the planning phase. The matrix gets built, approved, filed. Nobody opens it again until closure, when it serves to document that the risk was foreseen — which is exactly the opposite of managing it.
What to watch
- Whether the status report shows any red projects: an all-green portfolio is a portfolio without information.
- Which risks are identified, who owns each one, and when they were last reviewed.
- The size of the first useful delivery: the further out it is, the more it resembles a bet.
How I read this entry
I would use it to review how the organisation estimates. If historical estimates were systematically out by half and nobody adjusted the method, no project will land well: you are planning with a ruler that measures short and blaming the team for not reaching the mark.
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Living through this in your own team?
Open the chat and tell me how you're handling it. I'm interested in comparing notes.
