Agile Philippines Meetup (Jun 2018)
Agile Philippines returned to Willis Towers Watson for its June 2018 meetup. The evening brought together new and familiar faces for practical Open Space conversations about agile delivery, team coordination, and the realities of adopting agile inside different organizations.
Back at Willis Towers Watson
Willis Towers Watson hosted the meetup, continuing its support for the Agile Philippines community after previously hosting the group's first Bonifacio Global City meetup. Lili Pattuinan, Regional Software Development Leader, welcomed attendees back to the WTW office and opened the evening.
The event followed the familiar community rhythm: a welcoming host, time for people to reconnect, food, and a discussion format built around the questions participants brought into the room.
Open Space around real delivery questions
The meetup used Open Space facilitation, with five topic areas across three 20-minute rounds. That structure gave attendees room to choose the conversations most relevant to their work and move between groups as the evening progressed.
The first round covered topics such as a Scrum Master retrospective exercise, change request management, Agile Model Driven Development, enterprise agile metrics, and whether teams need to follow agile practices by the book or selectively apply the concepts that fit their context.
Themes from the discussion board
Many of the proposed topics focused on coordination and team health. Participants discussed how distributed teams stay synchronized, how teams handle competing priorities, and how to gauge motivation, performance, and improvement over time.
Other conversations explored where agile practices can stretch beyond the usual software delivery setting. The board included questions about applying agile to recruitment, group-up projects, technology upgrades, Product Owner work, story-point sizing, and SAFe.
Together, the topics showed a community working through both agile fundamentals and scaling questions: how to keep delivery practical, how to adapt methods responsibly, and how to make agile useful without turning it into ceremony for its own sake.
Keeping the community moving
The meetup wrapped up around 9:00 PM with a raffle and a big-circle sharing session. Agile Philippines closed by thanking Willis Towers Watson and the people who helped make the evening happen, then reminded attendees that the monthly meetup depends on both active participants and organizations willing to host the community.
For ToolTwist, meetups like this are a useful reminder that agile capability grows through repeated practice and open conversation. Teams improve when practitioners compare patterns, challenge assumptions, and learn from the delivery problems other teams are solving.
Source: Agile Philippines Meetup 2018.06