Sam Perera

Agile AI author, trainer, speaker

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I came to AI as a sceptic. I remain one. But after a brief and slightly stubborn period of refusing to engage with it properly, curiosity won out and I went deep to try work out what was genuinely useful versus what was just tech bro noise. After a lot of trial and error, something shifted. Not revolution, but real time savings on the mechanical work, which meant more time on the human stuff.That experimentation eventually led to delivering AI initiatives and workshops within my team at NHS England, where I've spent the last few years working on the platforms behind things like the NHS App and e-prescriptions. Before that I was leading Scrum deliveries at Kin + Carta and Edit for clients including Tesco, British Heart Foundation, Co-op, Northern Rail, Mitsubishi and others, and before that working on transformation projects with Volkswagen, SEAT, SKODA and Mercedes.Along the way I picked up an MBA from the University of Leicester, both a Professional Scrum Master and Certified Scrum Product Owner cert, and an ICAgile Coaching qualification. I've consulted for AI start-ups, written over fifty articles on developer productivity and engineering leadership, won a few HackerNoon contributor awards from those, and published work on responsible project management through the Association for Project Management (APM). I also led a project that funded the planting of over 20,000 trees, which might be the thing I'm most quietly proud of.I'm the author of The Scrum Master's Guide to AI and run training sessions around using AI as a lever for better Delivery Management and Product Ownership. Hit me up for details.