Paweł Słowikowski

Agile Consultant, Scrum Master, Trainer, and mentor with over 18 years of experience in multicultural IT environments, from startup-like projects to large multinational product development organizations. He began his career as a Software Tester and has worked in agile roles since 2010, supporting teams, leaders, and organizations in improving effectiveness, value flow, and decision making. He has been actively involved in agile transformations and scale-up initiatives. His passion is to enable people and teams to grow, strengthen their capabilities, and independently deal with complex challenges. He is also a practitioner of Holacracy and other forms of self-management. Co-founder of Agile Wrocław.

Workshop—Mob Prompting: Team Collaboration with AI

The introduction of AI to agile teams promised a drastic increase in efficiency; however, in reality, it often leads to a regression of collective intelligence. Instead of co-creating solutions, we observe the emergence of "hidden silos": one person generates proposals in a private chat with AI, while the team - seduced by the speed and structure of the responses - falls into the trap of uncritical acceptance. This isn't agility, it’s an "illusion of consensus." By avoiding natural, productive friction (the Groan Zone), teams opt for "elegant-sounding banality"—solutions that look professional but merely skim the surface of complex business problems without touching their core.

In this workshop, we will flip this model. We will show you how to use the Mob Prompting technique to bring AI out of the shadows and place it at the center of team interaction as a facilitator, not just an executor.

Instead of passive observation, you will step into the heart of a structured simulation where you will:
- Practice role rotation (Driver, Navigator, Critic, Facilitator) that mandates the engagement of every group member.
- Utilize AI as a "Devil’s Advocate" to intentionally provoke difficult discussions and challenge the status quo.
- Experience how to moderate Backlog Refinement so that technology becomes a trigger for deep, shared thinking and taking real ownership of the outcome.

Paweł will do the workshop together with Krzysztof Serkies.