Agile working: an innovation in the way we work | Anne Cantelo | TEDxWoking

[@DanielCeillan]

Agile is the name that the new work paradigm received in Software Development industry. While this video someways relates to Agile core principles, is not at all about Agile. The origin of this new paradigm, called Agile in Software area, is the gap that exists between industrial revolution, scientific management, versus Information Society. The paradigm itself was discovered by Maria Montessori worked with a group of students. She found that the students could learn much better if they self-organize in small groups, and the teacher acts like a "facilitator" letting the learning process flow naturally. Also the use of colors and shapes to organize the context was a great factor for learning facilitating. And of course: learning by experience. One of the main success factors for this new paradigm, is to abandon the idea to control and standardise the Chaos, instead let it Flow in an appropriate context. Montessori discovered that in 1906.

[@annecantelo1810]

Agile used to be constrained to your description. However language moves on and it now it has a much wider meaning. If you read the book you'll see that experts and futurologists now use the word to describe outcome measured work, where all the barriers around place and time are removed. CNN produced a programme about precisely this.

[@clairecarey8004]

I believe agile is much more now, people are studying benefits from a more holistic stand point.

[@brettharter143]

@@annecantelo1810 'weve stolen this and made it our thing now, it doesnt mean what it used to anymore'

[@waldosantiago7689]

This is a brilliant easy to understand chat about Agile...Thank you!

[@MrPersonaltrainer1]

Agile methodology is a set of principles, guidelines ,processes used by teams working on variety of projects. What the speaker details is that agile working (work from, home, forest, bath tub) can be utilized with agile methodology to get projects done in the shorts possible time. This would however mean that outcomes are measured more often. I do agree that people function better in there own creative spaces versus offices filled with distraction. I really enjoyed this presentation.

[@railzip]

Agile work has exponentially grown since COVID.

[@lordshin73]

I believe they used the word 'Agile' to mean 'Flexible'/'Adaptable' and not to mean 'Agile' as in the PM approach.

[@iamthekwan]

Thanks, saved me 13 mins

[@iandonaldson4715]

Well Anne, how prescient you were. COVID19 was thrust upon us, and organisations and teams had no choice but to do a grand experiment on: EVERYBODY-works-from-home. The teams I work with were collocated, with some people who occasionally worked-from-home. Perhaps because we'd worked so closely previously it was an easy transition: suddenly we're a team of remote-workers virtually-colocated (thanks Zoom - the open line through the day is awesome). It all works well, although we still have room for improving our virtual water-cooler arrangements :) For those of us who also have to simultaneously attend to study-from-home kids have an extra challenge or two, but we're getting there.

[@freeradical1956]

Agile working is far more than working from home, it's a transformation, a paradigm shift in the way we work ... from organisation to organism, from production line to ant colony, from a pyramid to a wheel.

[@12ronnies31]

The time has come for The Agile Revolution

[@RafaelMeireles-z4o]

Very good speaker.

[@sydneysymposia]

Agile work is a fancy way of saying ubiquitous slavery. Social scientists who were studying neo-liberal regimes of "flexible accumulation" were already talking about this in the 80s and 90s.

[@alexikamran7039]

Amidst covid, we are on it

[@macbot21]

Is this about Agile working? or about working from home?

[@WatchMe-0019]

Woking is a name of a place

[@ckmissghana]

Both

[@tobym2200]

good question

[@annecantelo1810]

It is about removing all the barriers around work that we've created. It means measuring outcomes and not where the work took place or even when the work took place. That includes remote working (not necessarily from home) but as I tried to explain, it goes well beyond that. Perhaps read the book.

[@clairecarey8004]

In my opinion it’s about a holistic view of the whole from a systemic standpoint. About how we have built in barriers over time. Holistically it is about society, environment, measures, structures, hierarchy, wellbeing and much more.

[@symphantic4552]

That dress is WOW!

[@eviebond2036]

Well recent events certainly put a new spin on this..!

[@josephturi]

Very good speaker. Kept engaged the whole time.

[@thierrymorel1097]

I find that this presentation lacks a concrete definition or description of what Agile working is. It sounds like Agile working is about offering flexibility to your employees in giving them the ability to work for home. I think there is a lot more to Agile working than this. Also it's a shame the presenter is very nervous, she would have gained from engaging more with the audience (she does it at one point), and pacing herself better. Particularly at the start it sounds like she's trying to remember what she has to say. Still it raises questions and it's good to see people like Anne Cantelo taking the stage to speak about this at least to get the conversation going.

[@OsvaldoGago]

This talk is not about "Agile". That name is already being used for something else. This is about working from home.

[@fmbyv]

The talk is not about working from home, it's about agile work. Agile allows motivated individuals to decide where, how, and when (timezones, flex days, etc) they want to work. Agile Principle #7: what you deliver is the primary measure of progress, not how many hours you were sitting on a desk.

[@EricKeinrath]

Informal communication, great point!

[@bhavinpankhania4799]

Vert well spoken about

[@laurahoussain]

Misleading title I would say.

[@description662]

LOL! Well Miss Anne Cantelo, most of us are now working from home. Guess Covid-19 heard your call....

[@MrPainfulTruth]

Not a talk i would have attended to the end. Overly simplicistic, completely neglecting the value of real-life (non digital) human interaction, disguising it as "agile" when in reality has nothing to do with agile values, principles, methods. Pollution? How is this a topic when discussing agile working?

[@annecantelo1810]

Perhaps you should look at the pollution mapping of Wuhan and Italy to see the difference people being forced to work remotely has had? Agile - is not now simply a term used to describe a type of project management (as it was 10 years ago). It has now moved on from that.

[@markhall3323]

No

[@datmanUK]

Great speaker, but she seems out of breath

[@rubensdesateles108]

LULA ESTADISTA PT

[@dreathegemini]

Negative outlook on everything jeesh