Moira Alexander

AUGUST 20, 2021

The nature of work has changed. Recent findings by McKinsey points to the need for adaptability to an avalanche of change as one of the key areas companies need to excel in to make their workforces more agile. The vast majority of the American workforce, almost 83 percent, have successfully shifted to working remotely.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Some methodologies include balanced scorecard (BSC) , Six Sigma, total quality management (TQM), Kaizen, agile, business process reengineering (BPR), root cause analysis (RCA), value stream mapping (VSM), value chain analysis, and theory of constraints (TOC), to name a few. Free change management plan template Download now 7.

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Kiron Bondale

OCTOBER 18, 2020

A question which I’m asked regularly during my classes is what the best place is to start an agile transformation within a company? A common approach for major organizational changes is to start at the top with executive leadership, creating a coalition of commitment and support towards a shared vision for the future.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

In this post, I want to dive a little deeper into the subject of Change Management. Yes, we always mention that Scrum Master is a Change Agent but in my subjective point of view, we do not get deep enough into the domain of Change Management. Let's now explore the essence of Change Management.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 5, 2022

If your manager is happy to fund this one, get it! PRINCE2 Agile. Are you taking the Agile version of PRINCE2? The book covers agile basics, PRINCE2 basics and has a useful section on what to fix and what to flex. Buy PRINCE2 Agile on Amazon. PRINCE2 Agile : An Implementation Pocket Guide.

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The Lazy Project Manager

MAY 11, 2018

In the first of this 3-part webinar series, we will explore ways to not only significantly reduce change failures but also how to dramatically raise the capability, speed, and success rates of delivering strategic change in any organization through the adoption of a ‘business agile’ change structure. Sign up today.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 24, 2022

Learn the skills needed to lead a virtual team, chair online meetings and manage the work remotely. Integrating change management for project success. Too much of project management focuses on building and completing something. Change management is the forgotten discipline of project success.

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NimbleWork

JANUARY 2, 2025

Agile is more than a methodologyits a mindset that has revolutionized how organizations deliver value, adapt to change, and foster collaboration. From Software development to enterprise-level transformations, Agile has become the cornerstone of modern work, empowering teams to be flexible, iterative, and customer-focused.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 31, 2023

Sitting at lunch during Agile 2023, I felt deja vu. I have attended many Agile conferences. At Agile 2023, I did not feel that. The challenges they discussed could be traced to classic business change management issues rather than anything unique to agility. My first was in Chicago in 2009.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 21, 2022

For the past 20+ years, I have worked with small and large organizations seeking more business agility. Becoming more Agile for large, well-established businesses is more than just a change for the IT organization; it has wide, sweeping implications. I’ve seen change initiatives go poorly.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 30, 2020

Becoming agile is about more than just Jira and Scrum. An agile executive would know. In this Lunch and Learn, Robb Pieper, CEO of Responsive Advisors will discuss areas affected by the agile delivery with some general solutions to common problems in seven areas.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 30, 2024

Your company has embraced agile and teams now enjoy greater focus and clearer collaboration. Although agile has markedly improved organisations, the full benefits are unattainable unless the entire work system is aligned with agile principles. Managing this transition requires strong change management.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 30, 2023

TL; DR: Agile Transformation with ChatGPT or McBoston? I was interested in learning more about a typical daily challenge many agile practitioners face: How shall we successfully pursue an agile transformation? Or shall we embark on an agile transformation with ChatGPT providing some guidance?

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Scrum.org

JULY 10, 2024

Monitoring Progress : For an individual team or across multiple teams, AI can be integrated into change management tooling like Jira or AzureDevOps to track Sprint progress, providing views of flow metrics, and identifying potential bottlenecks while suggesting interventions. Tools like Otter.ai

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Scrum.org

MARCH 4, 2024

TL; DR: How to Deal with the Agile Job Crisis While the current Agile job crisis is apparent, there is also hope for practitioners willing to refine their skills, share knowledge, and network with peers. You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 42,000-plus subscribers. ?

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Kiron Bondale

JUNE 13, 2021

I’ve written previously about my three tests for assessing agility: are we delivering value to our stakeholders early and regularly, are we progressively improving quality, and are we helping our customers, team members and key stakeholders to be awesome. An agile team is a learning team. Let’s start with a simple example.

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Scrum.org

JULY 18, 2021

Agile Leadership: How to Close the Knowing-Doing Gap. Smart leaders send their management teams on Agile training courses and leadership courses only to find that the learning doesn’t translate into action and therefore improvement. The training spend is wasted and the organisation doesn’t improve.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 21, 2021

Hybrid project management is a trending topic at the moment. It refers to the tailoring of the project management approach in use to deliver work. Having said that, I think organizations have always taken a tailored approach, but the part that was missing in the formal project management guidance was often the permission to deviate.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 20, 2020

The conference serves developers, team leads, architects and project managers. Change Management 2020 Conference. Change management is changing, and this is the annual meet-up to stay updated on the shifting environment. For the agile enthusiast, this scrum gathering takes place twice a year since 2013.

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Inloox

JUNE 15, 2021

That's why we’ve created a change management planning template to enable you to properly initiate changes in your company with InLoox. Definition Change Management The goal of change management is to adapt processes, strategies and structures in companies in order to move with the times and achieve competitive advantages.

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Kiron Bondale

MARCH 19, 2017

At first glance you might think that there couldn’t be two organization transformations with greater difference than the adoption of project portfolio management (PPM) and the transition to agile delivery. Agile requires a similar shift in thinking from centralized decision-making to embracing empowerment and self-organization.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Scope management is the way to deal with that, so let’s talk about how we can use change control protocol to help with it all. What is change control and why is it important? Change control or change management is the process of managing unplanned but desired influences on the project.

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Leading Agile

JANUARY 17, 2023

The core of change management is helping an organization prepare, support, and apply changes to an organization. In execution during an Agile Transformation, it looks different depending on how the organization is going about this change. How Change Management is Typically Implemented.

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Scrum.org

MAY 10, 2022

Fourth blog, in a blog series about the upcoming book: Creating Agile Organizations - A Systemic Approach, by Cesario Ramos & Ilia Pavlichenko. Resisting change during adoption is a normal human reaction. Resisting change is not only inevitable; it is necessary for a change to become successful. We respect their choice.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 4, 2021

Agile will stay and Kanban will stay, but lots of organisations are choosing hybrid structures. If we look at research from PMI and research done by the Georgia Chapter, waterfall is used in construction but in IT and financial services are using agile and hybrid. Read next: Project Management Trends.

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The IIL Blog

JULY 17, 2024

Her specialties include coaching and developing change leaders at all levels of the organization; consulting on complex organisational change initiatives including enterprise agile PM rollouts, business transformation projects and merger/acquisition change programs. Visit 8020 Excellerate at 8020excellerate.com.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 6, 2024

In Kürze: Die Agile Jobkrise – Wie Sie eine herausfordernde Situation meistern Während die derzeitige Agile Jobkrise offensichtlich ist, gibt es auch Hoffnung für Praktiker, die bereit sind, ihre Fähigkeiten zu verfeinern, Wissen zu teilen und sich mit Gleichgesinnten zu vernetzen. meine LinkedIn-Gruppe an, die Agile Clinic.)

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Kiron Bondale

DECEMBER 23, 2018

Increasing organizational agility is a journey and not a one time goal. Similar to New Year’s resolutions, some delivery teams initiate plans to become agile only to revert to long ingrained habits when things get tough. No agile transformation is going to go smoothly. Start small. Don’t beat yourself up.

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nTask

JANUARY 13, 2023

If you’re planning on making any changes to your company, it’s important to have a change management plan in place. This document outlines the steps that will be taken in order to minimize the impact of change on employees, customers, and third-party partners.

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Leading Agile

DECEMBER 13, 2022

. Organizational change management in Agile is used as a systematic approach to managing the Transformation process to support the people and the organization to adapt to the changes required. The post Agile Change Management for Large Companies appeared first on LeadingAgile.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 12, 2018

I think events like this are showing how diverse the project management community is. Change Management 2019: Orlando, Florida, USA, 28 April-1 May 2019. The Association of Change Management Professionals (ACMP) is hosting their annual conference in Orlando, Florida this year. Agile 2018: Washington, D.C.,

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Kiron Bondale

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

In 2013 I wrote an article about the advantages and disadvantages of contract project managers. Competent agile coaches have been in high demand for many years due to the large number of companies across multiple industries who are going through agile transformations. A good agile coach is worth their weight in gold.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Agile Rises from the Tech Store to the Top Floor. As C-suite execs try to collaborate whilst functionally leading, an increasing challenge is how they can organize management beyond their own expertise. One way for them to do this is by embracing an Agile mindset. Managing Changes in Change Management.

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Kiron Bondale

SEPTEMBER 16, 2018

A lot has been written about the challenges caused by functional managers when their company undergoes an agile transformation. But with this emphasis on what they shouldn’t be doing, not as much gets published about the specific activities we should be doing to help them through the change.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

There are dozens of high-quality academic works to draw from, there are dozens of academic journals dedicated to (agile) software development (ASD) and change management. I quickly found hundreds of academic papers that investigated Scrum and Agile teams. So where do you find it? That is great!

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Kiron Bondale

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

I’ve frequently said that agile transformations are marathons and not sprints. While there is no single model for how a company will progress through its agile transformation, it is a good idea for transformation teams to proactively identify tipping points where previously unique outcomes or behaviors have become commonplace.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 31, 2023

I’m sure you take away tips and ideas for making this your best year yet managing projects at work. It’s a lot to read, so here are some spoilers drawn from common themes I heard time and time again in the interviews: Agile : if you don’t know enough about it, you need to start learning. Find her on Twitter.

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