12/9 - The Future of Agile is Flow

Colleen Johnson will join the DC Lean + Agile Meetup on Wednesday, December 9th at 12:00pm ET.

Topic: The Future of Agile is Flow
Most teams can feel the shift of the last two years before they can name it. Work that used to take a sprint now lands in an afternoon. The scope a small team can credibly take on has outgrown the cadence to plan it. And as code gets cheaper, risk moves to other parts of the workflow. The practices that carried us here assumed the binding constraint was how fast people could produce but itt no longer is.
This session is about what still holds up when speed, scope, and risk all move at once. Flow answers all three, not because it is new, but because it makes the whole system visible: how long work actually takes, how much is in motion, and where the delay is really hiding. We will look at what practitioners inside organizations adopting AI at scale are seeing, what their data is telling them, and the handful of practices that keep delivery predictable when everything around it speeds up.

About our Speaker:
Colleen is the CEO of ProKanban.org and one of the most in-demand consultants and speakers helping large companies around the world get work done faster and make smarter bets on where to invest. For more than 25 years, she has worked with organizations to see how work actually flows through their business and to use that visibility to connect everyday decisions to real financial outcomes. Colleen is co-author of The Kanban Pocket Guide and The Forecasting Pocket Guide, and co-founder of ScatterSpoke, an Atlassian Ventures portfolio company that turns team feedback into measurable improvements.