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Impact Matrix – 4 Categories of People Affected by Change
Benjamin Franklyn said, "All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move." We know not everyone affected by the change will be impacted by, or respond to, the change in the same way or with the same...
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
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
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
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
We didn’t intentionally plan our way into a situation that warrants an agile transformation. We need to undo the damage through small, consistent interventions over time.
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.