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AgileTODAY is a blog that serves as the beating pulse of the Agile Australia community.

Gathering builds our capability

Spending two days at AgileAus25 reminded me: gathering builds capability. And that matters because productivity is built on capability, and capability starts with people.

The top 5 reasons your peers are heading to AgileAus25

AgileAus25 is fast approaching, taking place on June 23–24, 2025 at Sofitel Sydney Wentworth - and curious minds from across the country are preparing to gather for two energising days of ideas, insights and connection.But why are so many making the trip? We asked...

Harnessing AI at AgileAus25

At AgileAus25 (23-24 June 2025, Sofitel Sydney Wentworth) we’re not just talking about AI. We’re showing you how to use it with purpose – guided by product thinking, empowered teams, and practical, lived experience.

Agile around the world – a chat with Cristina Welle

We recently had the pleasure of an illuminating chat with Cristina Welle, an Agile Coach and volunteer for the AgileAus Conference who shared what keeps the wind beneath her wings.

In conversation with Elise Aplin

Elise Aplin has been a speaker, volunteer reviewer and stream chair for Agile Australia over many years and her contributions have been invaluable to the special sauce of the AgileAus community!
Most recently, Elise has been living the island life in Mauritius and will soon be returning home to Australia. We caught up with her to have a chat about what she’s been up to.

Best books of AgileAus 2016

Best books of AgileAus 2016

At this year’s AgileAus Conference, we asked over 1200 attendees for their favourite, most inspiring books on Agile. And this is what they told us. These are the titles that came up again and again as the most helpful for learning about Agile:   Follow the links below...

Manifesto! A poem by Richard Weissel

Agile Encore 2016 speaker – and poet – Richard Weissel has penned a poetic tribute to the Agile Manifesto. “Help!” They cried, “We’re drowning. We’re stuck in a waterfall!” “Do not fear, I’ll save you”, came the saviour’s mighty call. He donned his cape, he donned his...

Lean PMO: Explore vs Exploit

International speaker, consultant and author Barry O’Reilly returns to the AgileAus blog today. Barry is heading to Australia in December to host Lean Enterprise workshops, and you can also catch him speaking at Agile Australia 2017 (22-23 June 2017 in Sydney – better...

The digital landscape is changing

One of Agile Australia 2016’s highly-rated talks will be encoring in Sydney this November at Agile Encore. As part of this compelling Agile afternoon, Richard Weissel (REA Group) will speak on why ‘The heart of Agile is in your local primary school’. In this blog...

Citizen engineers for good

Today’s blog looks back to a 2013 edition of AgileTODAY, in which the founder of Rally Software, Ryan Martens, shared his thoughts on moving faster to solve the world’s most intractable problems.Citizen engineers for good by Ryan Martens “Give me a place on which to...

Can Agile help with predictability?

Guest post by James Shore Agile Australia Keynote Speaker 2015 It’s entirely possible to make predictions with Agile. They’re just as good as predictions made with other methods, and with XP practices, they can be much better. Software is inherently unpredictable. So...

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