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

✍ Scribed by Melanie Franklin

• Publisher: Kogan Page
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 287
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

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