Agile Change Management: An Adaptable Approach to Managing Change

5 Tips to Help Break Organizational Silos

Managing organizational change can feel impossible when silos and a rigid waterfall mindset dominate the culture. In this post, we tackle these challenges head-on, offering 5 proven strategies to help you foster collaboration, adaptability, and meaningful transformation at the operational level.

3 Tips for Managing Organizational Complexity

Agile isn't Declining, It's Thriving!

There is so much noise that agile is dead. Our panel featuring Jason Little, Chris Shinkle, John Tanner and Quinton Quartel disagree.

5 Benefits for Visualizing Work

Change Canvas work because they make the invisible, visible. Visualizing your change through a change canvas or big visible wall is the best way to maintain a single-source-of-truth that helps everyone know what's going on with the change.

From Human to Machine: How AI is Revolutionizing Change Management Strategies

The biggest change management trend in 2023 will be the adoption of AI. Here's how ChatGPT can help enhance your change management capability.

Clarifying Values and Principles with Perspective Mapping

The Perspective Map helps us explore the similarities and differences people have about the change. It is important to understand the perspective of the organization, leaders, and people in order to move the change forward.

Six Tips for Facilitating a Kick-Ass Lean Coffee Session

Lean Coffee is an amazing tool for creating meaningful dialogue. Here are six awesome tips for super-charging your lean coffee session.

How Lallia Earned Her Storytelling Badge

OMG, She's Listening to Us!

This is Sarika's story that earned her the Lean Change Management Storytelling credential!

A Look inside Lean Change Management

The Inner Game of Change Podcast

In this interview, I talk with Ali Juma of The Inner Game of Change about Lean Change Management, how change management is changing and more.

The Meaning of Co-Creation

Lean Coffee #4 - New skills, Humane Workforces and Feedback Loops

Lean Coffee #3 - Will Organizations Act Differently in a Post-Covid world?

LCMA Virtual Lean Coffee #1

Creating Certainty in an Uncertain World

Agile says 'embrace uncertainty'. A better idea is figuring out how to reduce it.

Modernizing Change Communication

change communication is almost always training and newsletters…what would it take to shift towards modern practices that enable meaningful dialogue?

Change and Agile Leadership

Leadership has existed since the dawn of humankind. History shows us great leaders adapt to their context so what does 'agile' really change about that?

Triggering Meaningful Dialogue with Storytelling

Support Structures for Change Agents

Change Readiness and Setting Expectations

Impact Matrix - 4 Categories of People Affected by Change

Finding Influencers...at the Bottom of Your Org Chart

We underestimate the power of influence networks in our organizations. Here are 5 tips for finding influencers at the bottom of the org chart, along with a podcast I recorded with Tamara Kleinberg of Inside Launchstreet.

Ritual-based Change versus Continuous Change

LCM Podcast 16 - Debugging Bureaucracy

Lean Change Management in Action

This is the story of the journey to integrate change management into a continuous delivery model, from the perspective of 4 people and their respective roles as Change Managers (Portfolio and Project Level), Scrum Master and Agile Coach.

LCM Podcast 15 - What's it Like Living Through a SAFe Rollout

LCM Podcast 13 - Sociocracy with Jerry Koch-Gonzalez

We underestimate the importance of psychological safety, and meaningful conversations when it comes to running our organizations. In this episode, Jerry Koch-Gonzalez explains the 3 structures of sociocracy, why organizations are choosing it, how they're getting stuck, and what's getting them past those sticking points.

LCM Podcast 12 - Agile Change Management Lessons from the Field

LCM Podcast 11 - Brains and Ears

Combining Innovation Games and Lean Change Management

Alternatives to Change Management Certifications

The Change Before the Change

Is Your Organization Ready for Agile Change?

Change readiness assessments aren't a new idea...but there's an easier way to go about them!

EP7: The Happy Melly Ecosystem with Elizabeth Plouffe

Is Your Change Stuck?

Minimum Viable Change Process

Creating Alignment for Enterprise Transformation

Untangling the Organizational Hairball

Change managers, OD people, and Agile Coaches all love our frameworks, tools and models. We like to "invent" things to help our clients make sense of their environments. What ever happened to facilitated conversations? Here's some ideas for how you can untangle the hairball that is your clients organization.

Removing the Mumbo-Jumbo from Change Management

Cause and Purpose, or Urgency for Change?

"Change or die!! Innovate for become obsolete!" This is the false urgency that Kotter warns about. Knowing the difference between urgency and false-urgency can be difficult. Maybe change agents should be focusing on something else to help organizations change.

LCM Podcast EP6 - Are Centralized Change Teams a Good Idea?

The Guiding Coalition - Kotter's 2nd step...but it is an outdated concept in change management or merely executed poorly by organizations? On this week's podcast, I'm joined by enterprise agile coach, Ty Crockett where we debate the pros and cons of centralized change teams.

Using Storytelling in Change Management

Urgency for change is an outdated concept in change management. Cause and purpose for change is a more compelling way to help people align to transformational change. Learn how you can incorporate storytelling into change management by using a Storytelling Canvas.

Integrating Cultures with Lean Coffee

What happens when your organization is acquired and you have overlapping roles? Brock Argue tells us a story about they approached this problem, experiments they ran and what happened.

LCM Podcast EP5 - The Great Organizational Culture Debate

In EP4, Eric Lynn and I talked about changing culture and the concept of 'buy in'. A few people had their own thoughts about these topics! This episode is a response to EP4.

LCM Podcast EP4: Culture - Can you measure it?

This week's podcast features Eric Lynn, founder of Culture Q's. We discuss culture change via conversations, whether you can measure culture and more!

People Must Be Told What To Do

"We have to tell our teams what to do or they just won’t do it." How many times have you thought this? How many times have you had a conversation like this?

LCM Podcast EP 3: Pop Psychology, Organizational Coaching and Agile + Org Dev

This week we feature a rebuttal of Episode 1 with Paul Gibbons. What did people think of the 1st show? Have a listen as we debate pop psychology, agile and OD and more!

The Marriage of Agile and Organizational Change Management

The Agile community groans when late adopters discover it as being the greatest thing ever. I'll wager most Agile practitioners don't realize everything in Agile has been stripped from ideas that are decades old. It doesn't matter where these ideas came from, let's merge ideas from Agile, OD, CM and HR in order to build resilient organizations.

Using Change Canvases - A Story from Agile 2015

Teams often feel they have had Agile pushed on them and they simply have to go along with whatever is pushed from above. Change canvases help people in teams take ownership of their changes that align with the organization's purpose.

Navigating Organizational Complexity at Agile 2015

Agile teams can fly under the radar until they bump up against the organizational boundaries. At that point, 'being Agile' and 'Agile mindset' discussions become useless for moving forward.

What every change agent needs to know about change

The Shelf-Life of a Change

The New Change Managers

Change Management is a relatively new profession. And it's changing rapidly. The more we learn, the more we realize that adapatability is the key, not blindly following a method. The New Change Manager is someone who understands what change management is all about.

Creating Alignment for Agile Change at Agile and Beyond 2015

Listen to April Jefferson's story about how she helped two teams and their management team transition to Agile by using strategic and team-level canvases that provoked deep conversations.

Announcing the First Lean Change Agent Facilitators!

Become a Lean Change Agent facilitator and get on the path to bring meaningful change into the lives of people all over the world.

Making Sense of Change with LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY™

I'm often asked which tool or artefact to start with when it comes to kicking off a change initiative. Well, it's not about the canvas, it's about the conversation! Here's a story of how a couple of people used LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY™ to start the alignment process around a change initiative.

Change VS Transformation

We believe that change happens continuously and mainly should be owned by the people who do the work, thus the responsibility of the work, managing the work and managing how to work shouldn’t be separated. So we recommend to use the tool in a joint session with everyone who is affected by the change. - Stefan Haas

Inspiration Behind Lean Change Management - An InfoQ Interview

Lean Change Management is inspired by a variety of practices and many communities from agile to organizational development and neuroscience. Check out my recent interview with InfoQ about my upcoming talk at Darefest in Antwerp, Belguim.

Thinking Like a Change Architect

Architecture is a fixture in software and construction projects, but what can change agents learn by applying ideas from architecture to organizational change?

7 Wastes of Change Management

In manufacturing and software, "waste" is considered to be a bad thing. But what about change management? Is something that is more unpredictable and uncertain affected by the same types of waste?

Executing Change Initiatives with Agile Practices

Tools for Visualizing Complex Change

If all you have is hammer, every problem looks like a nail. Cute, but false. A hammer is just a tool, it doesn't tell you how to use it. Here are 4 tools and visualizations you can use to help you make sense of complex organizational changes.

Why Changes Should Be Called Experiments

Change agents have biases. Sometimes we make the changes we think makes the most sense. Sometimes those aren't the right changes though. Thinking about changes as being time-bound Experiments is a more effective way to manage change programs

How to Create Your Own Change Canvases

Lean Change Management will be released soon! Get a sneak-peek at some of the bonus material that will accompany the book!

Becoming a Lean Change Agent

Agile Transformation and Organizational Change Management

The Agile Community and Change Management communities have similar reasons for why change fails. Is there a relation between them? What can Agile learn from Change Management and vice versa?

Using Agile Practices with ADKAR

There is much change management can learn from the Agile community, and vice-versa! Learn how you can apply Agile practices within the ADKAR change management model.

Standardizing Change Management?

Standardized change management processes is what has gotten us into this mess. Can a better standard help improve how organizations change?

Modernizing Change Management with Agile

Navigating Organizational Change

Change is Messy

How Lean Change Management Helps Traditional Change Management

Learn how Lean Change Management can help traditional, plan-driven approaches to change.

Vote on the Next Cover Image for Lean Change Management!

Green? Yellow? Pink? What colour should the next cover of Lean Change Management be? Vote!

A Peek at the 2nd Edition

Interview with Jason Little About Lean Change

Agile Transformation with Lean Change

Version 1 is Released!

Chapters 3 and 4 Now Available!

Lean Change at Agile and Beyond 2013

Gerry Kirk and Jason Little presented Lean Change Management at Agile and Beyond in 2013. Check out the presentation here.

Lean Change on Lean Pub