Is Agile Still Radical Enough for Human-Centered Innovation?
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## 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
Perfect for designers, researchers, product thinkers, facilitators, strategists, and innovation leaders.
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# 🗓️ Event Time
🕕 18:00 CET / 12:00 PM (Noon) New York / EST
📍 Online via Zoom
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# 🔗 Zoom Registration (Required)
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/deG74Hf5RPCHyJ4Q_rSjbA
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# 👤 Speaker
John Behrens – European Agile & Product Development Coach
🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-behrens-sft/
Supporting innovation teams across Europe and the US —
always open for conversation or helping with design-driven product development.