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Ritual-based Change versus Continuous Change
This year when the New Year came around, my 11 year old daughter told me that resolutions were pointless because it's just another year, same as any other. I remember thinking that when I started becoming entrenched in all-things-agile, I thought it was smart to...
Happy Anniversary Lean Change Management!
Last month marked the 3rd anniversary of the 2nd edition of Lean Change Management. 5th anniversary if you include the terrible Leanpub version, and 8th anniversary if you consider the blog post that started it all. Much has happened since then: ~10,000 copies of Lean...
Creating a Community of Change Agents with Lean Change
Lean Change Agent Facilitators Charlotte Mawle and Ro Gorell recently interviewed Melanie Lunny about her experience using Lean Change Management tools to create a community of change agents. Listen to Melanie Lunny describe her experiences of applying Lean Change. ...
LCM Podcast 16 – Debugging Bureaucracy
In this podcast, we hand over the hosting reigns to Lean Change Facilitator Richard Atherton - one of the leaders of Lean Change in the UK. Richard first discovered Venkataraman on LinkedIn in 2016 and was attracted to his incisive writing on organisations. In this...
Lean Change Management in Action
4 Perspectives - The Change Managers, Scrum Master, and Agile Coach. Change management never seems to be straightforward in large, complex enterprises and this program was no different.This is the story of the journey to integrate change management into a continuous...
LCM Podcast 15 – What’s it Like Living Through a SAFe Rollout
This is the final podcast as I put the podcast on hiatus for a bit to focus on other activities. Most of the stories we hear about agile transformation, or a rollout of <insert the method name here>, it's from someone selling something, or from the consultants,...
Reshaping our View of Agile Transformation
Version One recently released their 11th annual State of Agile Development survey results. This survey asks people why their organizations are trying agile, what methods/tools/processes are they using, and where they're getting stuck. Over the last 10 years, the...
LCM Podcast 14 – Meaningful Change at National Leasing
In October 2015 National Leasing started a big change. A year later they shared their progress on this blog. In this episode, I talk with them about what happened now that the change program has been completed.
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
Nowadays, the word agile has baggage. Despite the amount of information out there, some still think agile means no planning, no process, and no documents. If you feel you have an agile mindset, it can be extremely difficult to work with those who "don't get it". If...