Category: Agile in Change

The Marriage of Agile and Change Management

Zillah Ketcher

I’ve been married for almost 24 years, and although I am very happily married it would be dishonest to say that there haven’t been difficult times throughout the years. This, of course, is true for most marriages. Speaking for mine, those difficult times didn’t simply resolve themselves on their own. In fact – quite the […]

Agile Leadership in a New Agile Era

Theresa Vermeulen

The Fourth Industrial Revolution, or Industry 4.0, requires agile leadership and for organisations to re-evaluate and adapt to the changing business environment. The main difference between this new digital, more agile era and previous revolutions is the pace of change. The agile era provides breakthroughs at an accelerated rate, where the scale of disruption is […]

Implications for Change Management in an Agile World

Michelle Wolfaardt

In today’s world, where the pace of change, innovation and digitisation is increasing, and where there is pressure to adapt quickly to changing client needs, Agile methodology is becoming common in organisations in place of traditional ‘Waterfall’. While software development and Project Management may be leading the shift to Agile though, often staff on the […]

Applying Change Management in an Agile Environment

Maritza Boucher

Most companies are moving towards an agile approach to implementing their projects, as it shows value faster and enables the project team to react effectively to changing requirements. Being in change management means that we need to be able to adapt to this change FIRST and be capable of applying change management in an agile […]

Agile and Change Management. Allies or Adversaries?

Debbi Scheun

The relationship between Agile and Change Management can quite easily be compared to the dynamics of a relationship between two people. Any relationship can be improved by understanding the similarities, the differences, the conflicts, and how to bridge the needs between the two. When implementing Change Management on projects that are using the Agile methodology, […]