Intelligent Agile (IA) #2

A Six-Part Online Meetup Series

Session 2 guest speaker: Alan Cyment

Composting Agility
What to strengthen, what to keep, and what to let rot in the age of AI
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AI agents give us a fresh reason to question decades of agile practice. In this one-hour talk, we’ll explore why automated feedback, cross-functionality and practices that mix both (like BDD) become more valuable, why limiting work in progress and measuring outcomes still matter, and why some familiar habits deserve retirement. Along the way, we’ll challenge fixed iteration lengths, specialist silos, user-story bureaucracy, and perhaps even the team as agility’s fundamental organizational unit (with a short detour on the paradox of how new career paths will look like). A slightly technical, opinionated talk for experienced practitioners, with openly acknowledged confirmation bias and a practical question: what should we compost to make room for better ways of working?
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Bio
Alan works with executives, transformation leaders, and teams when organisational friction slows coordination, blurs priorities, and makes adaptation more costly than it needs to be.
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Description of this series
Agile didn’t promise speed. It promised sustainability.
The original Agile Movement was never about pumping out code at breakneck speed. It was about building robust, adaptable software and creating healthier, human-centred workplaces. It promised autonomy, trust, and environments where people were empowered to make meaningful decisions.
For the most part, we missed that mark.
Over the last two decades, workers were subjected to micromanagement, rigid tools, and metric tracking. Managers, too, were trapped in a system few truly understood. While delivery pipelines improved, the human potential latent within our organisations remained largely untapped.

Read the full description here: Intelligent Agile.

Join us to explore how we can finally fulfil the original promise of Agile—creating exceptional products in truly human-centric environments.