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LCM Podcast EP 3: Pop Psychology, Organizational Coaching and Agile + Org Dev

This week’s episode features a few people from Canada, the US and Australia. Our topic, debating the arguments from Episode 1 with Paul Gibbons. Is pop psychology all that bad or is it necessary for more people to have surface knowledge as opposed to deep knowledge of these change models?

We also talked about organizational coaching and how agile and OD intersect.

Participants:

Ro Gorrell: As an independent consultant, business coach, facilitator and author, I specialize in helping organis...

LCM Podcast EP 2: Solving Wicked Problems with The Hot Seat

This episode features Salah Elleithy, Agile Coach, Trainer and founder of Spark Agility. Salah joined an open session with me at Agile 2015 where myself and a few other people tried out a technique called The Hot Seat.

Salah recently tried this out with a client and in this episode we chat about why he wanted to try it, how he did it and what happened.

About Salah

I get the most joy out of sparking curiosity in learning and experimentation. Over the years, I worked in business analysis, man...

LCM Podcast Episode 2: Solving Wicked Problems with The Hot Seat

This episode features Salah Elleithy, Agile Coach, Trainer and founder of Spark Agility. Salah joined an open session with me at Agile 2015 where myself and a few other people tried out a technique called The Hot Seat.

Salah recently tried this out with a client and in this episode we chat about why he wanted to try it, how he did it and what happened.

About Salah

I get the most joy out of sparking curiosity in learning and experimentation. Over the years, I worked in business analysis, man...

Lean Change Management Podcast

The first Lean Change Management podcast features Paul Gibbons, the author of The Science of Successful Organizational Change. In this episode we talk about what the Agile community can learn from the organizational development and change management communities.

This podcast is a new series that will include audio and video interviews of change practitioners from the agile, change and organizational development communities who are helping modernize how organizations introduce and manage chang...

The Marriage of Agile and Organizational Change Management

10 years ago the title of this post would have been “I pronounce you husband and wife” or “I pronounce you man and wife”, but that’s outdated thinking. The world is different today, and thankfully so.

Much like the union between two people creates a stronger, unified entity, so it goes in the world of business. One such union that has been happening lately in the business world, is theunion of ideas between different communities. In particular, many communities have been plucking ideas from t...

Using Change Canvases – A Story from Agile 2015

Sometimes team feel they have no control over their own processes when Agile is introduced to the organization. A good practice to help teams align to the organization’s purpose for implementing Agile is facilitating a well-structured conversation that helps teams figure out what’s in it for them.

Team change canvases provide a mechanism for structuring the conversation and documenting the outcomes that teams can use to take ownership of their own change experiments.

I interviewed Steffan Sur...

Navigating Organizational Complexity at Agile 2015

Agile has been around since 2001 and one could argue it’s become more mainstream over the last 5 or so years. At Agile 2015, Declan Whelan and I ran a simulation that helped participants see a pre-Agile organization transform to a post-Agile organization. We’ll be posting details on this game soon.

Agile is simple to start with. Give a team a 10-minute overview of Scrum and they’re pretty much good to go. After that, teams can fly under the radar for a number of sprints until they bump up ag...

A Lean Change Starts with Insights

Implementing agile in an organization could be a very hard and complicated thing and it could become even harder especially if you are impatient to see the anticipated benefits. It’s common said that it is very easy to start with agile and to my experience and observations it is even easier to fall back to old ways of doing things – maybe renamed – when you realize that you are in the middle of chaos!

Is there any way to have a successful agile change thatserves its purpose? The answer is y...