Agility is not enough when complexity is ubiquitous

Agile transformed how we deliver. Scrum and Kanban helped us respond faster, iterate smarter, and deliver more value in less time. But what happens when the real challenges, the ones keeping teams stuck or leaders up at night, aren’t delivery issues at all?

What happens when the problem can’t even be agreed on?

This session introduces Omnicomplexity, a strategic evolution of Agile thinking that meets complexity head-on. While Scrum and Kanban excel at operational adaptation, Omnicomplexity extends that adaptability across leadership, strategy, transformation, product management, design thinking, and organisational life as a whole.

Because when complexity is ubiquitous, not an edge case but the everyday condition, agility is not enough.

Where traditional approaches chase clarity through problem definition, Omnicomplexity begins with tension. It invites you to work with contradiction, not erase it. It replaces rigid plans with living hypotheses. And it trades alignment for coherence, achieved through collective sensing, reflection, and learning.

We’ll explore:

• How tensions between control and trust, speed and inclusion, clarity and care can become fuel for strategic action
• How to apply Omnicomplex heuristics to your real-world challenges
• What it looks like to move from “doing agile” to “being agile” to thinking and leading in complexity

Expect a mix of stories, visuals, provocations, and practical tools. This is not theory for the bookshelf. It’s for product managers facing impossible roadmaps, agile coaches facing wider organisational impediments, transformation leads navigating cultural inertia, Scrum Masters trying to protect space for learning, and leaders trying to steer systems that push back.

If you’ve worked with Agile methods but still feel there’s something deeper shaping the work, this session will help make sense of that and offer practical ways to respond.