Hermes: Organizations as Swarming Agents

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Welcome to the Leanpub Launch video for Hermes: Organizations as Swarming Agents https://leanpub.com/hermesorganizationsasswarmingagents by Jeff Sutherland! 0:00 Jeff Sutherland introduces himself as co-creator of Scrum and explains why AI makes Agile more important, not obsolete 0:46 Why Scrum teams leveraged by AI will outcompete those who don't adopt it — amplifying teams, not replacing them 1:32 The three compounding 10X multiplications: original Scrum, AI agents, and organizational management 2:18 The 1993 benchmark proving Scrum was 10X faster than waterfall, and why that threshold mattered for launch 3:51 Why 95% of companies get no financial value from AI, and what the 5% getting exponential results do differently 5:23 How native OpenClaw runs waterfall by default and how to convert it into a self-organizing Scrum team of agents pulling from a backlog 7:44 How Hermes AI agents replaced a human IT department managing 23 servers and ~225 medical devices with near-100% uptime and 10X security 11:37 Connecting AI agents to a Jira board to automatically increase a Scrum team's velocity by at least 20% within two sprints 13:08 The free ScrumAI.org beta program: how teams can sign up and get their agent environment set up automatically 14:42 Enforcing a server-side Definition of Done for AI agents to prevent hallucination and ensure quality gates are met About the Book In 1993, the first Scrum team was independently measured at ten times the productivity of waterfall. In 2026, the same protocol is doing it again, this time with AI agents. Hermes: Organizations as Swarming Agents is Dr. Jeff Sutherland's field report from the front line of agentic work. It explains why a single AI agent, however brilliant, tops out at one story every 10 to 15 minutes, while a six-agent Scrum team on a cheap-model chain closes 50 to 100 stories in the same window, at about a tenth of the cost. Inside, you'll learn: Why Hermes won the orchestration race in 90 days, and why it works best as the manager, not the worker How OpenClaw Scrum teams swarm work to done under WIP limits and a server-enforced Definition of Done What happens when the agent "picks up the mouse" and drives software with no API at all How an AI-run IT department kept around 225 medical devices online unattended, and got better every night The math of three compoundings: Scrum's 10×, the swarm's 10×, and the cost chain's 10× This isn't a forecast. It's architecture already running in production, written by the co-creator of Scrum for technical leaders, Scrum practitioners and founders who can see all the pieces but not yet the picture. This book is growing, sprint by sprint. Like the teams it describes, it's built in increments. New chapters are added as the work in production moves forward. Buy it now and you'll receive every new chapter and update as it's published, at no extra cost. The protocol is the same. The workers are different. The economics are now decisive. About the Author Co-Creator of Scrum and Scrum@Scale and Signatory of the Agile Manifesto Follow the author here! https://x.com/jeffsutherland Thank you for watching, please like and leave a comment, we'd love to hear from you! Please Subscribe and Follow! YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/leanpub X: https://x.com/leanpub Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/leanpub Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/leanpub Create Your Own Leanpub Book! You can create your own book anytime here: https://leanpub.com/create/book Here's the tutorial showing how to write and publish a Leanpub book in your browser (it's free!): https://help.leanpub.com/en/articles/2932527-getting-started-writing-a-book-in-leanpub-s-web-browser-writing-mode If you're a Leanpub author and you'd like to submit your own Launch video for us to publish, or if you'd like to record a Launch video with Len, please go here: https://leanpub.com/launch. #books #leanpublishing #selfpublishing #leanpub #writing #computeruseagent #promptengineering #scrum #agenticengineering #Scrum #AIAgents #ScrumAtScale #AgileAI #SwarmingAgents