The Agile Change Manaement course provides a practical way to scope, plan and manage change initiatives for you and your colleagues, with the emphasis on learning techniques that you can apply to the projects and change initiatives.
Courses are based upon the 2nd edition of the successful book “Agile Change Management – a practical framework for successful change planning and implementation”.
The course focuses on the application of agile planning techniques to create a roadmap that defines what outcomes – prioritized by the value that they deliver to the business – will be achieved and when these will be implemented.
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:
- Concepts: these bring together agile principles and change management best practice
- Roadmap: a simple, effective agile planning technique for defining how and when work will be completed, and benefits will be realized
- 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
- 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
- Environment: techniques to create an atmosphere that reassures, encourages and motivates those that have to adopt new ways of working
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.
ON-DEMAND WEBINAR: Agile planning techniques made simple
In this action-packed 30 minutes, Melanie explains how the planning techniques in the Agile Change Agent course can be applied to any piece of work to create an agile initiative that delivers early and frequent benefits.
Agile Change Agent Certification
Build your practical ability in agile and change
This course is suitable for everyone who is involved in creating new ways of working, whatever your previous experience. There is no assumption that you have prior knowledge of agile methods or change management techniques. The course is applicable to:
- Those working in “business as usual” roles who have been asked to take part in a change initiative that affects their team
- Project, programme and portfolio management roles will understand how to integrate their work with other changes in the business
- Business analysts and communication experts will know how to contribute their skills to making change happen
- Senior managers who are asked to sponsor change initiative will understand how to fulfil their responsibilities
- 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.
- Multiple-choice
- 50 questions
- 50% pass mark (25/50)
- 40 minutes
- Closed-book exam
