Design Thinking Professionals_New York

## Is Agile Still Radical Enough for Human-Centered Innovation?

In collaboration with Agile Coaching Europe
Agile emerged in 2001 as a radical, lightweight alternative to rigid processes.
Now — 25 years later — teams working in innovation, experience design, and product development face a new landscape:
⚡ Rapid experimentation
⚡ AI-driven creativity
⚡ Complex systems & cross-disciplinary collaboration
⚡ Human-centered challenges requiring deeper insight
And yet many organizations feel something is off:
👉 Agile has become part of the administration.
More ceremonies. More roles. More process.
Less curiosity, creativity, and change.
This raises an important question for design practitioners:

### Is Agile still radical enough for the challenges of 2025 and beyond?

Or does human-centered innovation require a more adaptive, exploratory, and courageous way of working?

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# 🔍 What We’ll Explore (20-Minute Talk)

• How Agile evolved over 25 years
• Why teams feel “busy but not improving”
• Where design thinking and Agile drift apart
• How rituals replace creativity and insight
• What modern innovation teams truly need
• What a more radical, human-centered Agile mindset might look like for 2026

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# 🧠 Think Tank Session – Co-Creating Future Practices

Together with participants from Agile Coaching Europe, we will design a method bag of:

• human-centered approaches
• lightweight experimentation patterns
• collaboration tools for cross-functional work
• ideas to reduce process overload
• practices that bring back adaptability, creativity, and learning