As we are now into 2018, we wanted to take an opportunity to reflect on the Agile journey and current state in the Australian market. Over the last few years and considerably in 2017, the awareness and desire to adopt Agile ways of working has skyrocketed in Australia. The desire to adopt these ways of working has been across all industries in the market.
In 2017, we found the discussion moved away from “why should we adopt agile ways of working?” to “how do we best adopt agile at scale?” In this blog, we will cover how we have seen the market for Agile evolve over the last 10 years and our perspective on what is next for Agile in Australia.
We welcome your 2018 agile predictions, observations, and thoughts. Here is to another year of realising benefits and happiness from a way of working that just seems to ‘make sense’.
Happy agile-ing. This is the ‘Age of Agile.’
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5 Maria Muir and Tahlia Oliver. Deloitte Consulting Pty. Ltd. https://www2.deloitte.com/au/en/blog/agile-blog/2019/defining-enterprise-agility.html. 2017.
6 Joanne Gray. Australian Financial Review. “ANZ blows up bureaucracy as Shayne Elliot takes the bank agile.” http://www.afr.com/business/banking-and-finance/anz-blows-up-bureaucracy-as-shayne-elliott-takes-the-bank-agile-20170428-gvumc2. May 1 2017.
7 Allie Coyne. IT News. “Bankwest goes all-in with Spotify’s agile model.” https://www.itnews.com.au/news/bankwest-goes-all-in-with-spotifys-agile-model-477985. November 21 2017.
8 Rohan Pearce. ComputerWorld. “Telstra’s investment in digitisation paying off, CIO says.” https://www.computerworld.com.au/article/632208/telstra-investment-digitisation-paying-off-cio-says/. January 16, 2018.
9 Jonathan Smart. Barclays. 2018 Business Agility conference.