The first raid agile dates back to 2014. It followed a series of agile open sud, a sort of countryside initiative around peer conversations.

Doing the raid agile is obvious to everyone. No one is going to tell you or has told us that it’s stupid. Three days of immersion in the Cévennes with experts or mentors in the field, in a cottage, with instructive walks, advanced topics. No one has ever told us it was idiotic; on the contrary, everyone has emphasized its value. Yet filling them is never simple. You have to want to do training without certification, which won’t, by far, fit into the standards of large organizations whose search for mass scale, for volume, has killed the poetry, whose mandatory mechanism has devoured the soul.

Not easy to venture into a corner of the Cévennes, to share a room, not to go home in the evening. Same for me! I use Claude’s shower and the bedding isn’t the best in my basement room.

Yet the raid agile undeniably brings a perspective, an understanding and an acuity that is useful in many situations and which participants have shared with us. For me it brings meaningful conversations, just like the “vehicle” we designed: a few days isolated in the Cévennes at the heart of nature, that’s where the future lies now. The raid agile isn’t outdated, it’s avant-garde.

To tell you everything, I hope that in this November when the raid is planned we’ll have tempestuous nature, rain, wind, the fireplace working. Us in the midst of the elements. Aware of the times ahead of us and engaged in rambling, dense discussions.

I’m on the verge of hoping for what happened to us on the first day of the first raid: a general power outage following a big storm. A group of people, full of conversation topics, nature reminding us of its presence.

This year’s raid agile I see as a return to fundamentals. No blah blah, no marketing framework, real conversations around principles and ways of approaching agility and far beyond: management, living your company, your life, coaching in the broad sense, product design, meaning and perspective of our professions, and naturally very certainly many conversations around eco-responsibility, sustainability and the necessary frugality of things, regenerative design models.

If we manage to have enough people, the raid agile will take place in November (we’ll know at the beginning of October): you can learn more there raid agile and register. Because once again this isn’t such a common gesture, less common than training on gray carpets, with three hundred and fifty slides, and a tool that extinguishes thought. We hope that there it’s quite the opposite: in the midst of nature, without slides, with tools, principles, postures that call upon your intelligence.