I went to my first Women & Engineering panel recently and wasn’t quite what I thought it would be. To be honest, I don’t know quite what I was expecting. Everyone was open and supportive, even the women not on stage were often offering advice on the issue at hand. Here are some of the [...]
by Myles Bogner, Ph.D. and Steve Kanter We had a small Agile software development team in one location. Within this environment, we operated with the following tools: A Kanban board drawn on a whiteboard with post-it notes that were physically date-stamped as items moved through the queue Company provided git repository for source control Metrics [...]
This is the presentation Bill Howard and I gave at the 2011 Association of Change Management Professionals Conference. It provides an overview of our change management work supporting the USTRANSCOM Corporate Services Vision initiative, with a focus on the experiential ChangeViz workshops that were held for executive and management level stakeholders. ACMP ChangeViz Presentation from [...]
Bill Howard and I will be co-presenting “Facilitating Change at United States Transportation Command” at the 2011 Association of Change Management Professionals Global Conference in May. Bill is going to share some of what he’s been doing as the Organization Change Management program lead for the CIO and Director of C4 Systems at USTRANSCOM. I’m [...]
Life is like a Mad Lib. When we fill in the blank spaces without understanding the context, we usually end up with nonsense. I think that most enterprise change initiatives suffer from this problem. Although the functional and technical details are often exhaustively scrutinized, the people part of the equation is a blank hole we [...]
The four day Prosci Change Management Conference I attended last week was an eye-opening experience. I guess I’ve been living a bit of a sheltered life, because it came as a shock to find almost no mention of the principles of Agile development in the twenty or so sessions I attended. As a matter of fact, [...]