At Agile Change Management, I’m currently preparing for the upcoming Agile Change Agent course, which will take place on November 19th and 20th via live virtual classroom. Book your place today.
About the Agile Change Agent Course
The Agile Change Agent course uses agile principles and agile concepts to create an integrated project and change plan, that delivers new ways of working iteratively and incrementally. I use the contents of this course in my consulting work, where I support several global transformation programmes.
This integrated plan, called the Agile Change Roadmap, is a visual, high-level guide that identifies achievements, described as outcomes, and dates when these will come on stream. This focus on achieving outcomes is critically important in supporting an agile approach.
Let me explain….
Over the last six months, I have been supporting an organisation as it delivers a new consulting service to the global market. Everything is new thinking for the company; they have never done anything like this before. To find the right answers, they continually experiment. It is easy to lose certainty when lots of things are being tried at the same time, so they use the Agile Change Roadmap to stay informed and motivated.
The Agile Change Roadmap and How It Can Be Used
The Agile Change Roadmap brings a new perspective to planning and implementing organisational change. Traditional planning looks forward, to work out what needs to be done next but in agile changes, there is a lot of value in looking backwards, which is a different yet vitally important skill.
By looking back on what we have achieved, we can identify the points of alignment and integration between what we are about to do and what has been decided, implemented, and adopted as new ways of working.
This is a vital input to our agile thinking because we get the best value from building on what we already have, and we cannot do that without understanding where we have come.
Sounds simple, but it is a real talent to be able to keep a grip on all the threads of a rapidly evolving situation. This is why I teach this skill in my Agile Change Agent course. I use real-world examples to enable you to picture yourselves creating the same rich picture for your own changes. We work together to develop checklists of questions to ask and ideas for sources of information to assess.
Upcoming Agile Change Agent Course
Book yourself on my upcoming Agile Change Agent course on 19th-20th November and learn the skill of road mapping to support your planning, analysis and decision-making for all types of projects, programmes and change initiatives.
If you would like to learn more about the value of Agile Change, I have an upcoming webinar on 1st November which will provide a definition and simple explanation of Agile Change and how it complements other Agile methods and aligns to change management best practice.
If you have further questions or want to discuss other courses I offer, please contact me today.