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3 KEYS to Beginning any Agile Change

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3 KEYS to Beginning any Agile Change

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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Change Agent – Recharge Station

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Change Agent – Recharge Station

Something came up on the September 20th Kazi stream about how to maintain your energy level as a change agent, which is incredibly hard at times. And, on a related note, the challenge of knowing when it’s time to leave.

Change Agency is…HARD!

The harsh reality is that every Scrum Master and Agile Coach in any instance, situation, or context is a CHANGE AGENT. You are in a role that is trying to guide folks along a change curve to a new state.

And being a CHANGE AGENT is, in a word, HARD!

There’s no other way to say it. In many ways change agency reminds me of the Energizer Bunny in that you/we need to “bring it” every minute of every day. We have to bring enthusiasm, energy, positivity, engagement, and a can-do attitude every day to our work.

If you find yourself lacking on the energy front for too many days in a row, you have to seriously reconsider your choice of jobs. It’s that simple.

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