Managing Change in an Agile World

Change in today's business environment is accelerating. In agile change environments, changes happen swiftly and repetitively. Helping people to be ready, willing and able to work in new ways in these environments is a challenge to successful organizational change. Agile change management is the adaptive and iterative planning and execution of change management practices that encourages flexibility and speed. Managing Change in an Agile World is a fantastic resource for people who need to make change happen in agile environments. This guide includes both the principles and practices for managing change in an agile, fast paced, iterative environment. If organizations want to make effective change, they need to recognize and deal with the principles of how change happens within agile environments, and they need to have the tools to make the change management work happen. Managing Change in an Agile World shares foundations of agile, change management, and how they intersect; as well as the tactical, hands-on guidance that leads you through preparing for and managing change agile environments.

Kate Nelson is a partner with Change Guides, LLC and co-author of the Change Management Pocket Guide: Tools for Managing Change (2005) and The Eight Constants of Change: What Leaders Need to Know to Drive Change and Win (2008). Kate has more than 25 years of experience working with organizations worldwide to help them manage change. Her clients have ranged from very small privately held organizations and nonprofits to some of the world s largest multi-nationals. They have spanned many industries such as manufacturing, consumer products, and life sciences. Kate earned a BS from The College of William and Mary, an MBA from the Fisher School of Business and an MS from the School of Natural Resources at Ohio State University. She lives in Cincinnati, Ohio. Gina Giannitelli is a Director with Change Guides and has led many aspects of Organizational Change, from leadership alignment to adoption support. She brings over 20 years of experience in big four business consulting, HR leadership and strategy, and change management to her clients. Common in all her work is the need to help people drive business results. Gina s experiences include a balance of strategy and tactics, ranging from the establishment of a change Center of Excellence to managing change for multi-national initiative implementations. She has served as an instructor for Change Guide s Change Management Certification program and as a presenter for professional conferences. Gina holds a BA in Psychology from Miami University and professional certificates from the Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations. She lives in Cincinnati, Ohio. Shannon Stautberg is a Change Guides consultant who has over 18 years of experience performing project and change management roles for large-scale system implementations, as well as strategic and operational analysis projects. Shannon s passion for change management is rooted in her commitment to helping organizations successfully navigate the people part of change so they can continually improve and grow. Her experiences have included the development and execution of change management plans, benchmarking, market research, training and change management coaching. Her clients have included Fortune 500 companies, state and local government agencies and fast growing privately held companies. Shannon holds a BA in Psychology and a M.Ed. from Boston College. She lives in Cincinnati, Ohio.