Why can't I find articles on agility outside software development?

Agile ways of working have spread across sectors and are no longer limited to software development practices.

As a result, agile has come to mean and feel different things to people and different sectors. However, the most prominent discourse about agile is still in the tech field with it being quite hard to come by resources and information for other fields.

This has been a bugbear for me as in the 3rd sector and in government, things are done a bit differently - even in tech projects - and often you feel like you're paving the way without access to a discourse that helps inform you in your approach.

For example, it is common in these sectors to have multidisciplinary teams as in the private tech sector. At tech companies, these teams are often organised in cohorts with prominent tech / software engineering leads with a lot of influence, this influence seems to be more distributed in the 3rd sector as your driver is not always create innovative tech.

Often the driver is about maintenance or about creating content that satisfies a need or request. Consequently, the influence between leads seems to be distributed, with often a heavy focus on user needs, accessibility and design systems.

So, it is not unsurprising to find agile teams within a wider tech disciplines just dedicated to doing content design working. This creates a unique challenge of finding the best way of working for a team based in a large organisation that is working on the tech corpus (and so interacts with tech teams) but doesn't require any direct tech resource.

This means that components such as estimation and planning can look and feel different - breaking down a content design task can often feel like a different beast to breaking down a regular user story.

It is all too easy to think that we must just import ways of working from a regular agile team here. However, while we must maintain the same mindset, a different approach is warranted otherwise for example, 'estimating' ends up becoming a process no one wants and diminishes personal interactions.

Sharing and creating a discourse about these emergent ways of working will be really helpful to share learning materials to improve teams' ways of working but also to avoid people taking a copy-paste approach from teams that don't share commonalities which might end up reducing the agility of a team.

Or maybe there stuff out there and I just haven't found it.