Agile is dead! Or so the LinkedIn prophets say. But is it really? Or are we just stuck in a stale framing of agile that no longer resonates? In this keynote, we’ll explore the dramatic demise of agile (cue thunderclap), and then flip the script. Agile isn’t dead! It’s just waiting for a fresh coat of paint and a new perspective. You’ll learn how to reframe agile in ways that make sense for today’s teams, orgs, and chaos. Let’s resurrect agile, but make it weird, make it useful, and make it ours. Long live agile!

This talk explores what agility truly looks like in an essential services environment where reliability, safety, and long-term planning matter just as much as speed. This talk reframes agility as a mindset—one focused on responsiveness, learning, and empowered decision-making rather than ceremonies or software methods. Through practical examples from the energy sector, it highlights how teams can stay adaptive even within regulatory, operational, and asset-heavy constraints. Attendees will walk away with simple tools to build a more agile culture—without needing to adopt formal Agile frameworks.

Most ‘Scrum’ teams are feature factories that try to deliver a fixed project scope in a fixed time and budget. During development they always find that the plan defined up-front needs a lot of change. As a result they go way over time and budget while delivering a lot less value than expected. This isn’t Scrum and it’s not agile.

Organisational silos are one of the biggest barriers to speed, innovation and outcomes. Silos form naturally through specialisation and functional structures, but in today's fast-moving economy, silos create misalignment, cause too many hand-offs and fragmented customer experiences. Peter's presentation will explore how he utilised agile ways of working to help dismantle silos through design. The presentation will cover ways that agile practices can help to break down organisational silos that can be implemented by anyone. This presentation invites participants to rethink how work gets done and to consider how agility can transform siloed environments into connected, high-performing teams.

For a project (or organization) to harness the full potential of AI, it's essential to understand the human and business factors limiting the effectiveness of AI. This lightning talk will highlight the key findings from the Business Agility Institute's year-long study into AI, with special focus on the impact on project delivery.