The AI-GILE Manifesto

"Helping get AHEAD of the AI wave by building a community of like-minded AI-literate Agilists, coming to together to navigate shared learnings and experiences"

I have worked with Agile since 2014, when, at the time I could clearly see the pitfalls with traditional "big-design-up-front" thinking on successful delivery outcomes. Silos, dependencies and external factors caused frequent delivery challenges. The solution ? Get traditional IT closer to the business to break down silos and pull together as one, model 'systems' not components/technologies to minimise dependencies and iterate more often to consider external factors. Agile.

Until the 2023 'AI Spring', my focus areas had centred on how to optimise the maturity of people vs process vs technology (the latter one often being missed). I have had real successes in embedding interative techniques to highlight and resolve gaps between current Agile maturity and the 18-24 month future vision.

Why create the AI-GILE community ? Nothing is going to stop the relentless progress of AI. It is exactly the kind of external shock for which Agile was created. There is symbiosis between using Agile ways of working to deliver AI-based solutions, and using AI to help mature Agile thinking - especially when it comes to data-driven insights. The community seeks to maximise this symbiosis.