The core of change management is helping an organization prepare, support, and apply changes to an organization. In execution during an Agile Transformation, it looks different depending on how the organization is going about this change. The most significant aspect of change management is that it should include the people…

12 Agile principles were included in the Agile Manifesto when it was written 21 years ago. Some of the original Agile principles still hold up today, but some were written in a business context that isn’t the same today. Even looking at Agile 10 years ago compared to today…

Over the last decade, automation has become the norm for most organizations. And if they aren’t fully automated, they are going toward becoming fully automated. DevOps automates the process that connects development to operations, and now that DevOps tools are easy to get your hands on, most people want to…

When the Agile Manifesto was created 21 years ago, software development, technology, and the world, in general, were different. Agile was first created in response to the frustrations around the traditional software development processes of the 1990s-years from idea to development to deployment-and the explosion of personal computing, meaning that…

Organizational change management in Agile is used as a systematic approach to managing the Transformation process to support the people and the organization to adapt to the changes required. …

Written by Derek Poppink & David Nack Imagine you were building library databases for schools. The librarians are your economic buyers, and they value advanced search pages-Boolean searches for just the right keywords or publication dates. But the librarians aren’t buying these databases only for themselves. Instead, they’re buying them…

There’s a part of Transformation that’s essential that we don’t talk about as much—expenses. During Transformation, we mainly focus on variable expenses because those costs are negotiable. The most often overlooked variable expense during Transformation is external vendors, likely because they aren’t technically a part of your company. It’s no…

Recorded By Mike Cottmeyer When you create an Agile Roadmap, it’s all about getting people to change and making the change sustainable and lasting. But change is hard and people tend to resist it. …

Recorded by Dave Prior In this episode of SoundNotes, Len Greski joins Dave to discuss leadership and emotional systems. Len is a Principal Consultant at LeadingAgile and he has a background in sociology. As Len explains, “The most difficult challenge in delivering great products is getting people to work together.”…