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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.  Her insights and experiences will be sure to encourage you to take action.  Melanie demonstrates what we love about Lean Change – how quickly you can apply and learn from using the visual tools and the amazing results achiev...

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 episode they explore:

What do we mean by bureaucracy? How do we “debug bureaucracy”? What’s the meaning and value of “working out loud”?

Venky and Richard recommend the following if you’d like to dive deeper on bureaucracy:

Dav...

Lean Change Management in Action

4 Perspectives – The Change Managers, Scrum Master, and Agile Coach.

Change management never seems to be straightforward in large, complex enterprises and this program was no different. 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.

Here’s the situation.…

In a major Australian bank two change practitione...

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 , it’s from someone selling something, or from the consultants, or leaders who were responsible for the rollout itself. I haven’t seen very many (any?) stories from people who were employees of the organization who had to figure out how to work within the method when they didn’t really have a say in how and why it was brought...

Reshaping our View of Agile Transformation

Version One recently released their 11th annual State of Agile Development survey results. This survey asks people why their organizations are trying agile, what methods/tools/processes are they using, and where they’re getting stuck.

Over the last 10 years, the barriers have remained more or less the same:

These barriers are not ‘agile problems’, yet we still cling to our linear change models, and fall into the trap of trying to manage transformations the same way we manage an infrastructur...

LCM Podcast 14 – Meaningful Change at National Leasing

In October 2015 Jill Forbes from National Leasing reached out about getting some help with using a change canvas in her organization.

About a year later she wrote a story about what had happened so far.

This week’s podcast, and video chat, closed the chapter of the book! Jill and I explore:

how did you get started with your change canvases? how did people react to formalizing change management for the first time? how deep did you go while exploring who was affected? has IT change gotten eas...

LCM Podcast 13 – Sociocracy with Jerry Koch-Gonzalez

We underestimate the importance of psychological safety, and meaningful conversations when it comes to running our organizations. In this episode, Jerry Koch-Gonzalez explains the 3 structures of sociocracy, why organizations are choosing it, how they’re getting stuck, and what’s getting them past those sticking points.

Our topics include:

what is sociocracy, and what are the 3 structures of sociocracy? why are organizations choosing sociocracy? do organizations see sociocracy as a process o...

LCM Podcast 12 – Agile Change Management Lessons from the Field

Nowadays, the word agile has baggage. Despite the amount of information out there, some still think agile means no planning, no process, and no documents. If you feel you have an agile mindset, it can be extremely difficult to work with those who “don’t get it”. If you look at the 4 values and 12 principles, agile is simple, and it’s not about the methods, or frameworks, or certifications, it’s about how organizations can figure out more effective ways to manage work and people. Some organiza...

LCM Podcast 11 – Brains and Ears

There are more change frameworks out there than you can shake a stick at. We all have our favourites, but how necessary are they? We know change is hard, and we know the debates about why change fails have been circular over the last decade or perhaps longer. Yet here we are, inventing, and reinventing more frameworks, best practices, and standards in the hopes that will fix what isn’t working.

What if we relied on our brains and ears instead of boxes on a PowerPoint? This week’s podcast feat...

LCM Podcast 10 – How Organizational Change Mimics Social Movements

In 2001, the Agile Manifesto was created and along with it, a movement for a better way to build software. Since then over 40 methods, tools, frameworks and more have been created as the software world learned that 4 values and 12 principles alone were not enough.

16 years later, and some feel that we need to take Agile back from the bureaucratic organizations. For every movement, there is a counter-movement and this week’s podcast features Ryan Lockard of Agile Uprising. Our topics include:

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