I’m finding examples of agile work practices in more and more places, and see them as perfectly aligned with the application of design practice in innovation services. Here’s a running list…

• Agile programming has the most robust expression, including a philosophy, an alliance of various approaches, tools, software, and measured results.
• Agile project management
• Get Real from 37 Signals is an effective framing for web application developers
• Lean manufacturing
• Lean manufacturing applied to programming
• Adaptive Co-management in forestry
• Artful Making is the application of theatrical processes to business
• The Knowing-Doing Gap
• Research into pre-mechanization group work

I think people in the product design and user-centered design disciplines work in agile ways as well, but haven’t yet found a common frame that other disciplines readily understand.