Top 5 Agile change tips 4 - Support the initiative
October 11, 2012
This is the second post on my top 5 ways of making sure that your agile change initiative succeeds. But this is not ideas made up in my head (MY GOD - the horrors…) but things that I’ve tried and failed miserably with. Over and over. And learned a lot from.
This is the list - in order of importance:
- Get a great “Or else”-reason for doing this change
- Sit together
- Let them change how they work
- Support the initiative (this post)
- Use visualised data to improve
4 - Support the initiative
This should be a no-brainer but once you see it in action it’s seldom handled correctly.
If you want to change how people act and work you have to be a role model for that, supporting the new ways. This means that the change must start with management. Yes -...