I could have also titled this short post—The 3 Bs to Beginning any Agile Change…

Be Positive – Acknowledge & Celebrate Your Past Successes

  • Celebrate your history and journey

  • Celebrate the people who contributed to that journey

Be Real – Acknowledge and Learn from Your Past Failures

  • Mine thru the defensiveness and denial

  • Find the failures, face them, and embrace them

Be Caring – Acknowledge and Begin the Healing from Your Past Traumas

  • Every organization has induced some level of deep trauma, find it, expose it

  • It could be individual-based (ghost spirits); name them

I’d recommend doing this as part of an open space (or similar) event where you kick things off with your team.

Then, using these insights, craft your overarching Why for moving to agile ways of working and then leverage that to focus your strategy.

Food for thought. Stay agile my friends,

Bob.

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