The Agile Enterprise: Time capsule - A Review of Last Century Agile Concepts

For some, Agile started in 2002 as a revolution against "waterfall" with both (Agile and "waterfall") wrongly considered Project Management methodologies. While the Manifesto for Agile Software Development (aka THE "Agile Manifesto") was an important step in agile adoption, the reality is that most concepts considered "Agile" were in use for decades. Incremental and iterative software development had more than 3 decades of documented use, and the dreaded "waterfall" was more Agile than many modern frameworks.

While little known, the Agile Enterprise concept was first developed in Manufacturing. At the publication of the "Agile Manifesto," Agile was already considered the norm in manufacturing. The Project Manager's duty is to use whatever practice or tool works in the industry, organization, and project context to deliver value to the client fast and without wasting resources. In order for you to use any practice, concept, or tool, you must first know about and understand it. It also helps to appreciate how and why it was introduced.

This webinar is a retrospective of Agile and Lean practices that were rediscovered when teams wanted to scale Agile towards the Enterprise level with the aim of learning from mistakes already made by others.