by Jason Little | Jan 10, 2017 | Change Management, Stories
In 1998 I became an HP Certified Printer Repair person because I demonstrated the ability to replace PIU;s (Paper Input Units) at an alarming speed. It’s also been about 15 years since I received my first MCP (Microsoft Certified Professional) designation for...
by Jill Forbes | Nov 3, 2016 | Canvases, Change Wall, Stories
Feb 2017 Update: Jill recently sat down with me with an update on what has happened in the last year and a half since they started their change. “We will shut down our lease management and accounts receivables systems.” Those were the words I spoke (along with a super...
by Jason Little | Oct 28, 2016 | Gathering Insights, Perspective Mapping, Stories
A couple of years ago I interviewed a colleague who tried a perspective map in her organization. The idea of change readiness assessments have been around forever, but there is a quick way to figure out the answer to “whats in it for me?” at different...
by Jason Little | Aug 15, 2016 | Featured, Stories
A while back I was helping a marketing department with Agile, and that’s a story for another day. This story starts with a comment from a VP who was sponsoring the problem that this marketing team was working on. He said, “we tend to make it hard on ourselves to get...
by Jason Little | Jul 10, 2016 | Accountability Box, Stories
Read any article about how to ensure successful change (or why changes fail), and you’re likely to see these patterns: we need communication, top-down support, strong leadership, a reason why (urgency), motivated individuals, and the right change method to...
by Sarah Baca | May 19, 2016 | Agile Transformation, Stories
In the project management world we take big projects and break them up into smaller pieces so they are less overwhelming to the people doing the work. This also makes it so we can track our progress. In Agile, we break them up into short iterations so we can create...