Keynote on Augmented Agile: Human-centred AI-assisted Software Project Management at FinanSE Workshop (ICSE 2024)

Software engineering teams face a number of challenges on a regular basis. Software practitioners have employed agile methods for over two decades to work around challenges such as inadequate customer collaboration, poor management practices, teamwork issues, and coordination challenges in large-scale teams. While they have served us well for over two decades, agile methods are not without limitations. Transitioning into agile methods as well as adapting agile practices to suit different domains such as Finance, can be challenging for software teams, management, and firms at large. This keynote shares experiences from industrial agile research to shed light on what's been working, what's missing, and what can be done better, including a vision of a new future of software project management augmented agile that combines a deeply human-centric approach (the heart') with AI-assisted techniques (the mind') to augment and boost current agile practice.