Coaching Agile Transitions

ICAgile accredited course

Coaching Agile Transformations with Lean Change Management is a 16-hour experience designed to help you take the best ideas from agile, lean startup and design thinking to help you live the agile values and principles while transforming your organization to new ways of working.

Introduction to Enterprise Agile Coaching (EAC)
Understanding EAC Competencies
Striving for Personal and Professional Mastery
Ethical Considerations in EAC
Knowing Your Limits and Boundaries
Creating a Business Case for Change
Understanding the Human Change Process
Understanding the Organizational Change Process
Bringing the Agile Mindset to Change
Understanding Organizational System Entry
Organizational Change Assessments
Co-Creating an Organizational Change Strategy
Communication, Education, and Facilitation at the Organizational Level

What is Enterprise Agile Coaching (EAC)?
Understanding EAC Competencies
Striving for Personal and Professional Mastery
Ethical Considerations of EAC
Knowing Your Limits and Boundaries
Creating a Business Case for Change
Understanding the Human Change Process
Understanding the Organizational Change Process
Bringing the Agile Mindset to Change
Understanding Organizational System Entry
Organizational Change Assessments
Co-Creating an Organizational Change Strategy
Communication, Education and Facilitation at the Organizational Level

How can we integrate agile and change management to transition to agile in an agile way?
How can we apply agile practices to complex agile transformation programs?
How can we reduce uncertainty by iterating our way through change?
How can we reframe resistance to change by changing how we think about change?

Topics

Agenda delivery will vary based on whether the course is being delivered in-person or remotely.

Day 1:

Introduction: why are you here? What is the ultimate question you hope to have answered?
The Change Agent: It starts with you.
What is Lean Change Management: The LCM Cycle and 5 Universals of Change
Agile Change Management: Overview of the Agile values and principles, and how you can apply that thinking to change management.
Alignment: How to use light-weight tools for change readiness, change liftoffs, and ongoing facilitation of change
Incremental Change: How to move away from traditional ROI and towards reducing uncertainty by breaking down change into quarterly objectives with tangible key results.

Day 2:

Experiments: How to move away from change activities, and towards change experiments. This includes good practices for communication, creating alignment, providing status to change sponsors and more.
People: Why the notion of ‘resistance to change’ is wrong, and why the “70% of changes fail” is incorrect.
Your Own Change Framework: We’ll take the learning from both days, and discuss what your own change framework.