Is Agile Still Radical Enough? Challenging the Current State of Agility
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25 Years After the Agile Manifesto**
Agile was born in 2001 as a radical alternative to bureaucracy,
a bold response to slow processes and heavy documentation.
In 2025, Agile itself turns 25 years old —
as far removed from the turn of the millennium
as the 1970s were from the Agile Manifesto.
During this time, the world accelerated:
AI, automation, distributed teams, continuous delivery, increasing complexity.
Yet paradoxically, Agile has slowed down.
What began as rebellion has become part of the bureaucracy and administration industry.
Ceremonies multiply. Roles expand. Delivery doesn’t.
This raises a central question for today’s Agile community:
👉 Is Agile still radical enough for the problems we face in 2026?
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## What we will explore (20-minute talk)
A short and sharp review of:
- How Agile evolved over 25 years
- How it gradually became part of standard organizational machinery
- Why teams feel “busy but stuck”
- The gap between Agile’s original intent and its modern implementation
- Signals that Agile needs a radical refresh, not another framework
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## Think Tank Session
After the talk, the group co-creates:
### A practical method bag
A collection of radical, experimental, and bold approaches
that practitioners can try in 2025/2026 to:
- cut through administrative overhead
- increase genuine improvement
- challenge stagnation
- reconnect to the spirit of human-centric collaboration
- make Agile “radical” again
This session is collaborative, visual, and idea-driven —
designed to gather insights from software and product enthusiasts across Europe.
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# Outcome for attendees
Participants leave with:
- A refreshed perspective on Agile’s current state
- Insight into why Agile stagnates in modern organizations
- Community-generated methods to experiment with
- Inspiration to re-ignite the radical, human, and adaptive roots of Agile