"The concept of agile working has been adopted by many organizations that recognize the need to respond quickly and easily to new opportunities and be fit for purpose in a world of complex and continuous change. Combining cutting edge techniques, Agile Change Management offers pioneering tools to ensure your change initiative is embedded, adopted and delivers benefits throughout the organization. Including examples and best practice advice it enables you to create your own roadmap consisting of all the processes, activities and information needed to manage any type of change initative. By focusing on completing iterative tasks, the roadmap allows you to respond to different needs as they arise, therefore cutting time spent on planning for unnecessary resources. Also including important advice for creating the right environment for change, Agile Change Management is a comprehensive resource for anyone who wants to build the capabilities of an effective change manager"-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-270) and index.

Machine generated contents note: Introduction -- 1 Concept -- Explaining agile working -- Evolving solution -- Business need -- Iterative process -- Iterative development -- Collaboration -- 2 Principles -- Five guiding principles -- 3 Roadmap -- Introduction -- Part 1: Developing a roadmap -- Part 2: applying the roadmap to your change -- 4 Business need -- Introduction -- What is business need? -- Assigning information to type -- Bringing the elements of business need together -- Aligning business need to the roadmap -- Developing your business understanding -- Generating information about the change -- Identifying requirements and acceptance criteria -- Defining the impact of the change -- Conclusion -- 5 Relationship building -- Introduction -- Understand yourself before understanding others -- Building relationships with others -- Conclusion -- 6 Environment -- Setting the scene -- Environment and its links to organizational culture -- Environment and its links to agile working -- Environment needs to provide reassurance -- Building a sustaining environment -- Environment needs to provide motivation -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1 Change roles -- Appendix 2 Change management documents -- Appendix 3 Communication activities -- Appendix 4 Change activity index -- Appendix 5 Change capabilities index.