For many in our industry, agile ways of working are the standard. Digital projects shouldn't be run any other way. But in higher education, like in many other large organisations, you're generally operating in a non-agile environment. This can (and generally does) kill your chances of creating high quality, user-focused content at pace. This session will talk you through different ways you can get agile in a non-agile organisation, without totally freaking out your colleagues and senior management.

Key takeaways:

• Understand why going agile in a non-agile environment is hard, what it looks like from the other side's perspective, and how you can change that

• Understand different approaches to risk, how to report back to a non-agile Board, and how to talk to budget holders used to waterfall approaches

• Get an action plan for getting started, moving forward, and getting your organisation on the road to digital transformation - one retrospective at a time.

About Padma Gillen

Padma Gillen is the author of ‘Lead with Content’, and CEO of Llibertat, a content-led digital agency that puts users first. He uses his expertise in content strategy and agile to help organisations get clear on what they’re trying to achieve, build a roadmap to get there and then deliver the change their users are looking for.

Led by Padma, Llibertat provided the team that helped the University of Southampton design, plan and deliver their multimillion pound digital transformation programme, OneWeb. in 2019 Llibertat and the University of Southampton won the ContentEd award for Excellence in Content Strategy.
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Previously, Padma was Head of Content Design at the Government Digital Service (GDS). He had overall responsibility for the quality of content on GOV.UK, the award-winning website of the UK Government.