Using agile outside IT – our inaugural session! September 27 2016 People have been collaborating for many thousands of years, delivering against vision, learning by mistakes, constantly improving and responding to change. Andrew will show, through some well-known examples from history, how agile was around well before IT was even thought of and then how agile has been adopted beyond IT, finding its place back with people who want to work together to make a difference. This will be supported by mini case studies of where agile principles and practices have been adopted in non-IT functions of modern businesses to help them respond to change.

2. Agile: established.
Before and beyond IT.

4. Devizes, Wiltshire

5. 350,000 years old
David Dawson, director

6. Stonehenge
Began approx 5,000 years ago
First the ditch
Then wooden posts
Then the stones
Total evolution
1,000 years

11. 1st Industrial Revolution 1760-1840

12. Auguste Escoffier
28 October 1846 – 12 February 1935

13. Supermarkets
1940s-50s supermarkets

14. 1950s beginning of Lean Thinking

15. Advent of Agile for use in software

16. “Fourth Industrial Revolution”
World Economic Forum.
Digital transformation is at the heart.
Enabled by agile methods.
Fueled by innovations in many sectors.
We are only at the beginning.
Read this and be scared:
http://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/01/digital-disruption-has-only-just-begun

18. We want to be
an agile
business.
Investment management company

25. Summary
Agile is not the preserve of IT, if anything, we used and
abused the term.
At the core, people work together with a common
purpose, striving to improve on what has gone before.
If you keep individuals and interactions at the heart and
continue to make improvements, you will be agile.

26. Better People.
Better Teams.
Better Products.

27. Andrew Jones, CEO
andrew@agilityinmind.com
@agilityinmind
+44 0330 043 0143