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Change Agility - A guide to help you think about change management differently
Changing our organizations is hard, and changing how we think about change is even more difficult. The world doesn't need yet another 'agile change management' set of pillars, PowerPoints, or frameworks.
As change agents, what we need to move change forward already exists, we simply need to stop and look around.
This book will help you with three things:
- how you can manage change work with agile practices
- how you can use the agile values and principles to change how you approach change management
- how you work more effectively with agile teams as a change manager
Sounds like magic doesn't it? Unfortunately it's not, it's hard work, and it's up to you.
Traditional change management has focused on making other people change their behaviour to ensure successful change.
Maybe the problem has been the lens we've been looking through. Maybe it's us, the change agents, who need to think about change differently.
This book will help you look at change through the lens of true agility. That is, agility based on the timeless values and principles of the agile manifesto.
You'll find plenty of stories, insightful tips, and practical actions based on my 20 years of experience working as a Product Owner, Scrum Master, agile team member, change manager, internal and external agile coach, and organizational change agent.
Best of all, inside the book are connections to a greater community of agile change agents around the world who've been able to use the agile values and principles as a guide for approaching change in a different way.
As change agents, what we need to move change forward already exists, we simply need to stop and look around.
This book will help you with three things:
- how you can manage change work with agile practices
- how you can use the agile values and principles to change how you approach change management
- how you work more effectively with agile teams as a change manager
Sounds like magic doesn't it? Unfortunately it's not, it's hard work, and it's up to you.
Traditional change management has focused on making other people change their behaviour to ensure successful change.
Maybe the problem has been the lens we've been looking through. Maybe it's us, the change agents, who need to think about change differently.
This book will help you look at change through the lens of true agility. That is, agility based on the timeless values and principles of the agile manifesto.
You'll find plenty of stories, insightful tips, and practical actions based on my 20 years of experience working as a Product Owner, Scrum Master, agile team member, change manager, internal and external agile coach, and organizational change agent.
Best of all, inside the book are connections to a greater community of agile change agents around the world who've been able to use the agile values and principles as a guide for approaching change in a different way.
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243 pages, ebook
Published August 27, 2020
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About the author
Jason Little
48 books34 followersJason began his career as a web developer when Cold Fusion roamed the earth. Over the following years, he moved into management, Agile Coaching and consulting. The bumps and bruises collected along the way brought him to the realization that helping organizations adopt Agile practices was less about the practices, and all about change.
In 2008 he attended an experiential learning conference about how people experience change and since then, he’s been writing, and speaking, all over the world about helping organizations discover more effective practices for managing organizational change. He is the author of Lean Change Management and an international speaker who has spoken all over the world from Canada, the US, Finland, Germany, Australia, Belgium and more.
In 2008 he attended an experiential learning conference about how people experience change and since then, he’s been writing, and speaking, all over the world about helping organizations discover more effective practices for managing organizational change. He is the author of Lean Change Management and an international speaker who has spoken all over the world from Canada, the US, Finland, Germany, Australia, Belgium and more.
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March 25, 2021
Jason Little is an ideas person. He clearly loves Agile and change management and creativity and innovation. But:
He released a beta version of a book that wasn’t ready for release.
Very agile and innovative, but I would have preferred to wait, even pay more, and read a book that had been thoroughly edited and proofread. I could not get my head around the typos and the lack of structure. I spent too much time wondering what he actually meant.
I don’t know whether to review this book based on what it is or what it will be. I don’t know whether to judge the author against the world he lives in or the one I live in.
I’m stuck in the environment and culture that he rails against. I don’t need big ideas and grand statements; I need tools and techniques, and ways to move from where we are to where I want us to be.
This is not the book for that.
I give it 2 stars for what it is now and what it is for me. An extra star for what it can become and what it might be for others.
He released a beta version of a book that wasn’t ready for release.
Very agile and innovative, but I would have preferred to wait, even pay more, and read a book that had been thoroughly edited and proofread. I could not get my head around the typos and the lack of structure. I spent too much time wondering what he actually meant.
I don’t know whether to review this book based on what it is or what it will be. I don’t know whether to judge the author against the world he lives in or the one I live in.
I’m stuck in the environment and culture that he rails against. I don’t need big ideas and grand statements; I need tools and techniques, and ways to move from where we are to where I want us to be.
This is not the book for that.
I give it 2 stars for what it is now and what it is for me. An extra star for what it can become and what it might be for others.
December 7, 2020
Although my philosophy is aligned with the principle that is better done than perfectly not done , there are some mistakes that should have been avoided with a proper revision and edition of the book. One thing is to continuously improve concepts, receive feedback and incorporate it, sometimes changing the initial concept, other thing is to have mistakes in the writing, that most of the times feel like laziness to review the English.
February 17, 2022
First Book was better
Little's first book was better in my opinion primarily because the anecdotal stories in that one seemed to follow better with the concepts he was trying to advance. It's not a bad book by any means. I found several chapters useful but if I had go choose between "Lean Change Management" and this one, I'd choose the first.
Little's first book was better in my opinion primarily because the anecdotal stories in that one seemed to follow better with the concepts he was trying to advance. It's not a bad book by any means. I found several chapters useful but if I had go choose between "Lean Change Management" and this one, I'd choose the first.
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