Most people have a fear of change. The organizational change could not take effect if management ignores people’s fear of change. The workshop proposes adopting attachment theory to ease people's fear when organizations are ready to adopt Agile at the enterprise level. Dr. Victoria Grady, a professor at George Mason University, said people usually are not resistant to change, but just express the feeling of future inconvenience. In general, human’s nature does not like change because of attachment theory, per Grady. The attachment theory is as simple as babies are attached to their mothers. People do not consciously resist changes but naturally, react to something of the loss of an attachment. For example, what would infants react when they are separated from their mothers? What would employees react when their organization is ready to use a new process?

What if we don’t deal with the loss of attachment, what are the impacts? Many lessons learned told us why scaling Agile failed, but it is not clear how organizations handle people’s fear during the organizational transition. The evidence also shows that 68% initiates failed because organizations do not understand attachment theory. For example, employees’ frustrations may decrease productivities. We certainly don’t want the organization to fail when transition to enterprise Agile. So, we will learn how we can ease people’s fear of organizational changes based on the theory. Once we understand what behaviors caused by the loss, we can seek solutions or mitigate the risks for a smoother transition. For example, the organization is under the functional organizational structure. Each team member has the same function, but now the organization requires cross-functional team structure. The solution would be to advocate employee engagement and leadership support.