Agile and Digital Evolution

18:00 – Doors open, networking & food
18:30 – Talk 1: Agile’s Original Promise: What We Must Keep
18:45 - Talk 2: Nobody Wants This: When Everyone Does Agile but Nobody Knows Why
19:00 – Interactive Break
19:20 – Fishbowl discussion
20:00 – Open networking
20:30 – End

About this event
What do legacy systems, feature factories, and your sprint retrospectives have in common? They might all be vestigial artifacts—impressive-looking relics that once served a purpose but now slow you down.

Join us for an evening exploring how evolutionary principles apply to Agile in an era of AI, continuous deployment, and digital-first everything.

The Evolution of Agile: Adaptation or Extinction?
Two decades after the Agile Manifesto, the digital landscape has transformed beyond recognition. AI pair programmers, platform engineering, async-first culture, continuous deployment—the environment has evolved. Has Agile kept up?

We'll gather for two talks, a fishbowl discussion, and honest conversation about what survives the next iteration.

What we'll explore:
What environment did Agile originally evolve to fit—and how has that environment changed?
Why do dysfunctional practices replicate like legacy code nobody dares refactor?
In a world of AI tools, platform teams, and remote-first work—what does "fitness" even mean in 2026?
Which Agile mutations are adapting to digital reality, and which are heading for extinction?

What to bring:
Your war stories from the digital trenches
Your frustrations with zombie processes
Your experiments—shipped or abandoned
An open mind and appetite for food and honest conversation

What to leave at home:
Certification flexing
Framework holy wars
Defensiveness (we're all debugging together)

Our speakers:
Sven Neuendorf, Consultant at Netlight:
For over a decade Sven has been working in digital product environments, supporting agile transformation, team coaching, and product decision-making. What interests him most is how Agile has evolved in response to its environment - and where we may have drifted away from its original intent. In this talk, he wants to revisit what Agile was actually designed to solve, trace how we climbed to where we are today, and explore which principles will continue to matter even when we experience how AI changes how we build software.

Sabrina Krallmann, Consultant at Netlight:
Sabrina is an experienced Agile Coach with a passion for Change Management, who loves enabling and sometimes annoying people to communicate better. She approaches agile as a mindset rather than a rulebook while questioning teams who play „the floor is lava“ with the Scrum Guide. In her work, she is passionate about diversity, equity, and inclusion, as well as fostering environments where everyone wins together as a team.
In her talk she explores how everyone pretends to work agile nowadays, why it has become the downfall of agile methodologies and how to finally fix your teams problems instead of making them look pretty.

Hosted by Netlight Consulting Munich, Prannerstraße 4, 80333 Munich

We look forward to seeing you there!
Sabrina, Sven, Paulina (Netlight) & Jan (Agile Munich)