from €1,125
AI-Augmented Sprint
A one-day reset for teams on Cursor, Copilot, or Claude whose sprint cadence and Definition of Done haven't caught up.
Independent agile coaching · Netherlands & Germany
Pragmatic agile.
No theatre.
Your AI tools changed the work. Your ceremonies didn't notice. I help engineering teams fix the one thing that's actually slowing them down — then leave. Fixed scope, fixed price, fixed end date.
- PSM II · ICAgile · SAFe 6
- Nominated NL Scrum Master of the Year 2024
- No twelve-month transformations
The gap
What agile promises, and what it usually delivers
Most teams have adopted Cursor, Copilot, or Claude. Code ships faster than ever. But the sprint cadence, the Definition of Done, and the retro template all still assume the work looks like it did in 2019.
So the standup gets longer, the metrics stop meaning anything, and the retrospective produces a list that gets quietly forgotten. That's a design problem, not a people problem — and design problems are fixable.
Services
Four fixed-price workshops
For engineering teams whose AI tools changed the work but whose ceremonies haven't caught up. Run à la carte or as a series.
from €550 / ceremony
Ceremonies, Redesigned
Half a day to rebuild one ceremony — standup, planning, refinement, or retro — for an AI-augmented team.
from €450 · €165 / seat
Sharper Stories
A three-hour masterclass on AI-assisted vertical slicing, acceptance criteria, and story splitting.
from €1,200
Metrics Reset
A half-day leadership workshop that swaps vanity metrics for a tight DORA/SPACE balanced scorecard.
Strategy Coach
Ten strategy sessions you run yourself
Each one is a guided interview. It asks what a good coach would ask, argues when the answer is vague, and writes the result up as a plan you could hand to your board. Run it yourself, or have me run it with your leadership team.
Set direction
OGSM on one page, and a quarter of OKRs that actually holds.
Make the call
One consequential either/or, framed and stress-tested against your own biases.
Align the team
First 90 days, team charters, and the reckoning with the year that feeds the next plan.
Insights
Short notes from inside real engagements
No frameworks repackaged as insight. Just the patterns I keep seeing and what actually works.
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Demystifying Agile & Scrum myths
"True agile means Scrum." A chicken is a bird, but being a bird doesn't make something a chicken. Why choosing a framework is an engineering question, not a philosophical one.
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No documentation needed!
The Manifesto values working software over comprehensive documentation. Teams read that as permission to stop entirely. That reading is wrong — and expensive.
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How to run a retro that actually changes something
Most retrospectives produce a list that gets quietly forgotten. This is a design problem, not a people problem.
About
Engineer by training, coach by calling
I'm Ivan Duchateau — a Netherlands-based agile coach and scrum master. I founded Agile Conductor to close the gap between what agile promises and what it usually delivers, in fixed and honest engagements with a clear end.
More about how I work- PSM IIProfessional Scrum Master II · Scrum.org
- ICAgile ICP-ACCCertified Professional Agile Coach
- SAFe 6Certified Scrum Master
- 2024 nomineeNL Scrum Master of the Year
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A reply within one working day. A free 30-minute discovery call with no slides. A written proposal within five days if there's a fit. No obligation.
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