BONUS Agile in Construction Track Preview With Felipe Engineer-Manriquez At The Global Agile Summit

BONUS: Hard Hats and Standups — Why the Construction Industry Is Going Agile at GAS26 Felipe Engineer-Manriquez is one of the co-hosts of the Agile in Construction track at the Global Agile Summit 2026. In this preview episode, he and Vasco talk about why Agile belongs on the construction site, what the track's speakers discovered when they stopped following the plan, and why software people should pay close attention to an industry that builds hospitals, not apps. Construction Is 20 Years Behind — And That's the Opportunity "People don't realize that those ideas absolutely work in other industries. Agile's been successfully applied everywhere, and I think where it gets the least amount of publicity is in the construction sector."   When most people hear "Agile," they think standups in a tech office, not concrete and rebar. Felipe wants to change that. Construction, he says, is always about 20 years behind whatever process or technology the rest of the world adopts — a "very safe stock of keeping tradition." That gap is exactly what makes this track valuable. Agile is alive and growing in construction, and the translation turns out to be simpler than you'd expect. Most of what needs to change isn't the framework — it's the vocabulary. The sessions in this track show how practitioners made that jump with surprisingly small tweaks. The Speakers Don't Know How Good They Are "Half the speakers that I asked were like, 'what, me? Do I have a story to share?' I was like, yeah, you have this really amazing... people just don't realize how awesome they are."   One of the things that struck Felipe while assembling the track was how humble the speakers are. People who have transformed how their companies deliver work — including the keynote speaker, Brian, whose organization celebrated 10 years and saw dramatic before-and-after results — genuinely didn't think their stories were remarkable. They grew up in an industry with 100 years of project management tradition, where PMI-style thinking is the water they swim in. They don't see how different things look from the outside. Some of these practitioners couldn't even work across projects before adopting Agile — and now they're doing it routinely. That capacity shift alone is a data poin