Samman Coaching Sessions

Hands-On Coaching for Agile Teams

To Automate Workflows with AI and Skyrocket Productivity 

AI is transforming software development at an unprecedented pace. But without strong technical practices, AI won’t improve software quality—it will accelerate bad habits.

Right now, development teams face a choice:

• Ignore technical practices and watch as AI-generated legacy code piles up.

• Learn how to direct AI effectively and build scalable, maintainable, and adaptable software.

This coaching program is designed to help you take control of AI before it takes control of your codebase. Instead of watching passive training videos, you and your team will learn by doing—pair programming with AI, refining prompts, hosting local LLMs, and enforcing best practices.

You’re not just learning how AI works—you’re mastering how to make AI work for you.

How This Program Works

Each Samman session is an online group coaching workshop for up to 12 individuals. During the learning hour, you’ll explore a focused session on a selected topic, followed by a three-hour collaboration session with your team, during which you’ll implement what you learned immediately.

Samman Coaching, developed by Emily Bache and based on the work of Llewellyn Falco and Woody Zuill, is designed for deep, practical learning. It focuses on collaboration, experimentation, and real-world application. We typically work on your code with your data on your system. But if security is a concern, we can work on my servers in the cloud.

Who Should Attend?

• Engineering leaders & decision-makers who want AI to enhance development—not introduce new risks.
• Development teams who need to balance speed and software quality.

• Tech leads looking to establish AI governance, coding standards, and best practices.

• Software architects who want to ensure AI builds changeable, maintainable software.

If you care about long-term software sustainability, this program is for you.

Session Format

Each 4-hour Samman Coaching session is structured to maximize hands-on learning and deepen engagement:

• 10 min before start: Optional thought experiment & music to set the stage

• 0:00 – Welcome & Session Overview – What we’ll cover and why it matters

• 0:10 – Check-in – How this topic applies to your team’s current challenges

• 0:20 – LEARNING HOUR: Core concepts and key insights

• 1:20 – Interactive Exercise – Engaging activity to reinforce learning

• 1:30 – Break

• 1:40 – Mob Orientation – Defining roles and setting expectations

• 2:00 – MOB SESSION: Optional Discussion – Strategy before coding begins

• 2:20 – Mobbing (4-6 cycles) – Hands-on coding, applying AI techniques

• 3:30 – Break

• 3:40 – Retrospective – Lessons learned, team reflection, and takeaways

• 4:00 – End

This format ensures learning happens in small, digestible chunks while keeping sessions highly interactive and collaborative.

Samman Coaching Topics 

Pick from the ever growing list of Samman Coaching Topics. For a complete list of topics please see – http://passprog.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Samman_Coaching_Sessions.pdf

Each session focuses on a critical skill for AI-assisted Agile development. Sessions are structured to provide hands-on learning, ensuring your team doesn’t just understand AI, but actively integrates it into their workflow. Here is a summary of current topics:

Foundations of AI-Driven Agile Development (Beginner Level) – These sessions introduce core AI concepts for both technical and nontechnical team members.

AI Meets Agile: How AI fits in the software development workflow, including sprint planning, backlog management, and retrospectives.

Value Stream Mapping with AI: Flow and bottleneck detection

Say What Before How: Agile analysis done correctly with AI

Story Writing with AI: Write, split, and refine user stories with AI

Integrating AI into Agile Development (Intermediate Level) – These sessions focus on deeper AI-assisted Agile practices, improving requirements, collaboration, and code quality for the dev team.

Hosting LLMs Locally: Run local LLMs to protect your data 

Defining Acceptance Criteria with AI: Consistency checks

Specification by Example with AI: Clarify business requirements 

Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) with AI: Automate validation 

AI-Driven Technical Practices (Advanced Level) – These sessions focus on AI-assisted coding, governance, and automation. For developers.

Pair Programming with AI: Teach AI to be your coding assistant 

Domain-Driven Design (DDD) with AI: Guide AI with DDD

Refactoring with AI: How to refactor code safety with AI assistance 

Establishing AI Coding Rules & Governance: Teach AI your ways

Choosing the Right Session Level

Since some sessions build on foundational skills, I recommend: 

• Attending a beginner session before taking an intermediate session 

• Attending an intermediate session before taking an advanced session.

This ensures progressive learning and maximum benefit.

Each session builds on the last, ensuring a progressive learning journey from Agile analysis to AI-assisted coding and governance.

Your team won’t just learn about AI. You’ll master how to work with it by doing it. Which session will you start with?

Subscription Options

This is a subscription-based coaching package so teams can engage with AI topics at their own pace. Choose the number of sessions you would like to have each quarter. I will get back to you with dates for when you can schedule sessions. Feel free to contact me directly before subscribing if you have any questions.

• 1-Session Subscription – Pick a single topic that matters most to you

• 3-Session Subscription – Build your AI skills progressively

• 5-Session Subscription – Fully integrate AI into your Agile workflow

Why This Approach Works

Traditional training methods don’t prepare teams to integrate AI into development workflows.
• Video courses are passive. Samman Coaching is hands-on.

• AI skills aren’t just theoretical. You need to practice them in real-world coding scenarios.

• Collaboration accelerates learning. Working as a team reinforces concepts and ensures AI adoption aligns with your team’s workflow.

By the end of your sessions, your team will have learned about AI and mastered how to work with it.

The Future of AI in Software Development

AI is here to stay. It will either become your greatest development asset or your fastest-growing technical debt.

Teams that embrace AI thoughtfully and have strong technical foundations will thrive. Those that don’t will struggle to keep up.

Which future will your team choose?

Take The Next Step – Talk To Me!

If this program sounds interesting, schedule a Zoom call with me, and let’s talk.

Schedule my free consultation now!

Note: When you schedule a call, you will be meeting with me, David, not my assistant or secretary. Like you, I am very busy, so please respect both our time and be punctual. If you have to postpone the meeting, please let me know as soon as possible.

Sign up today and take control of your AI-powered development journey.

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