Agile Change Management: A Practical Framework for Successful Change Planning and Implementation

Description

The concept of agile working has been adopted by many organizations that recognize the need to respond quickly and easily to new opportunities and be fit for purpose in a world of complex and continuous change. Combining cutting edge techniques, Agile Change Management offers pioneering tools to ensure your change initiative is embedded, adopted and delivers benefits throughout the organization. Including examples and best practice advice, it enables you to create your own roadmap consisting of all the processes, activities and information needed to manage any type of change initiative. By focusing on completing iterative tasks, the roadmap allows you to respond to different needs as they arise, therefore cutting time spent on planning for unnecessary resources. Also including important advice for creating the right environment for change, Agile Change Management is a comprehensive resource for anyone who wants to build the capabilities of an effective change manager. Online supporting resources include PDFs of appendices from the book on change roles, change management documents, change capabilities, a change activity index and communication activities. Contents Introduction 01 Concept Explaining agile working Evolving solution Business need Iterative process Iterative development Collaboration 02 Principles Five guiding principles 03 Roadmap Introduction Part 1: Developing a roadmap Considerations for use Using the roadmap Part 2: Applying the roadmap to your change Iteration 1 Iteration 2 and subsequent iterations 04 Business need Introduction What is business need? Assigning information to type Bringing the elements of business need together Aligning business need to the roadmap Developing your business understanding Understanding who to involve Generating information about the change Identifying requirements and acceptance criteria Defining the impact of the change Conclusion 05 Relationship building Introduction Understand yourself before understanding others Personal awareness Personal leadership Building relationships with others Who to build a relationship with Steps in building relationships Conclusion 06 Environment Introduction Setting the scene Environment needs to provide reassurance Environment needs to provide encouragement Building a sustaining environment Environment needs to provide motivation Conclusion Appendix 1 Change roles Appendix 2 Change management documents Appendix 3 Communication activities Appendix 4 Change activity index Appendix 5 Change capabilities index Resources Index