Agile Change Agent®Virtual Classroom

The course has five sections, each one building on the content of the others to produce a full lifecycle model that moves from concept to deployment and adoption of new ways of working

1. Concepts: these bring together agile principles and change management best practice
2. Roadmap: a simple, effective agile planning technique for defining how and when work will be completed, and benefits will be realized
3. Business Need: a range of techniques to identify the benefits for our change, used to prioritize the work and motivate ourselves and others to adopt the new ways of working
4. Relationship Building: designing your engagement with others including what information you share, how you share it and what opportunities you give to others to make change happen
5. Environment: techniques to create an atmosphere that reassures, encourages, and motivates those that must adopt new ways of working
6. Courses are full of opportunities to “see, do, learn” so that you gain ability as you practice the content using checklists, questionnaires, and techniques that you tailor to your situation.

What Are The Key Things You Will Learn?

• Understand how agile approaches impact the way change is managed and delivered, and the impact on those involved in and affected by change.
• Create a roadmap consisting of all processes, activities and information needed to manage a change initiative in an agile way.
• Apply techniques to identify and prioritise activities according to business value.
• Create and support the right environment for change.
• Manage relationships with relevant stakeholders and team members, understanding how to best engage with them through empathy and trust.
• Utilize pre-prepared checklists, questionnaires and models that can be tailored to specific change initiatives.
• Develop strategies for building resilience and motivation, whilst managing and mitigating resistance.
• Manage change for both large-scale transformations and micro-level business change projects.
• Create a change that is lean and flexible, realizing benefits earlier on in the process.