How Amadeus’ business agility methods accelerate the pace of innovation for its partners?

Technology evolves and traveler demands are always shifting. In response, we must deploy the most effective organizations and development methods as we work to remain at the forefront of this fast-paced environment.

At Amadeus, this means lean and agile frameworks, a combined approach that prioritizes cross-functional collaboration and continuous improvement, aligned with lean portfolio management principles.

Only working in these ways are we able to meet the ever-changing needs of the traveler – and this is the topic I want to explore a little today.

Fostering a culture of innovation

The focus on agility here at Amadeus dates back to more than a decade, to 2009.

Today, around 80 per cent of our engineering and product management community follow scaled agile practices, helping them to collaborate to better serve the traveler through an emphasis on delivered value.

At the same time, we aim to focus on lean portfolio management, prioritizing work and investments across…