Agile Standards White Paper

This white paper explores an exciting new direction in the future of good practice – the potential to take an “agile” approach to the development of standards. It considers what is meant by, and included in, an agile approach and where applying this could be beneficial. It also forms an important contribution to the debate over how standards making can adapt to a new, faster paced world where best practices need to be shaped and refined by stakeholder communities in a form of “dynamic consensus”. The paper investigates the challenges and opportunities for everyone involved and offers guidance on when agile standards are most suitable and where they can deliver greatest value.