From Vision to Delivery: Reshaping Agile Product Management through AI-driven OKRs

We know that mastery, autonomy, and purpose drive our professional satisfaction and create motivation. However, as product managers, we often face the challenge of aligning our team’s goals, individual aspirations, and organizational objectives. How do we ensure that everyone in the organization shares a clear understanding of how their efforts contribute to a shared goal? How do we create transparency so that anyone, at any time, can see how their work connects to broader priorities? And how do we establish meaningful participation in defining objectives that matter across the company?

This presentation, “From Vision to Delivery: Reshaping Agile Product Management through AI-driven OKRs,” provides practical answers to these questions. Participants will learn to build cascading OKR structures that foster alignment and autonomy, leverage AI for goal-setting and generative testing, and develop practices for ongoing self-assessment and adaptability. By addressing common pitfalls, such as top-down mandates and task-based focus, and introducing AI as a tool for alignment, the session equips product managers with strategies to achieve transparency, collaboration, and shared success within a scaled Agile environment.

About Mariya:

Mariya Breyter brings over 20 years of leadership experience to the Agile and Lean community. Her passion for building high-performance organizations and leading them to deliver customer-delighting products has driven consistent success across diverse industries, from Big 4 consulting and Fortune 100 insurance and financial services firms to Silicon Valley giants. Mariya holds a Ph.D. in Computational Linguistics and completed her Post-Doctorate at Stanford University.

In addition to her full-time roles in product and project management, Mariya teaches graduate and professional courses at NYU, including Agile Project Management, Project Management Principles in IT, and Organizational Transformation. She is a frequent conference speaker, serving as keynote at Product World 2021, track chair at Agile 2024, and a mentor and speaker at the Grace Hopper Celebration 2024. Mariya has presented at prominent events, such as the annual Agile Conference, Agile DevOps, PMI events, meetups, and user groups. Her work was featured in Best Agile Articles 2020.

Mariya is the author of Agile Product and Project Management, a 2022 bestseller published by Addison-Wesley and adopted as a graduate textbook by universities worldwide. She also authored the Pearson Learning course on Agile Product and Project Management. When she’s not advancing the Agile community, Mariya can often be found running family Scrums or joining her kids for standups.