Building Offramps into change plans - Responding to Change Capacity as a constraint
Many agile journeys end prematurely because they exhaust the organizations 'capacity for change.' As we define and actively manage capacity setasides for architecture or technical debt, I propose that we should actively manage change capacity and explicitly design our change plans around the availability - and intermittent absence - of change capacity.
This remarkably suggests that our agile change journey should be agile, incremental, and adaptive - and provides a framework for structuring, negotiating, and planning agile change.
I suggest an alternative SAFe implementation journey based on these principles.
Slides from an earlier presentation on this topic are attached.
Outline/Structure of the Talk
- Why are we here? / Definition of Done
- What's the problem? - Change plans are never completed, they are abandoned.
- Why is that? - Because they rely on change capacity which it typically invisible and not considered.
- What is 'change capacity'?
- Change capacity varies.
- As we lose change capacity, we tend to abandon change.
- How do we deal with that?
- Offramps / Intersections
- Characteristics of a useful offramp
- Replanning the SAFe implementation roadmap using offramps
- Structuring change plans with explicit offramps
- Q & A
Learning Outcome
Agile practitioners who design change plans may consider a different approach - one which is incremental, lands on stable value-driven outcomes - and allows change to ramp up and down as change capacity becomes available.
Target Audience
Agile Coaches, Change Agents + Agile team members and leaders of organizations going through change
Prerequisites for Attendees
Some experience in planning change in organizations.
Links
Changes in the SAFe Implementation Roadmap (substack.com)
Interview w/Jorgen Hesselberg at Agile 22 - (165) TEG Talks | Session 7 - YouTube
schedule Submitted 8 months ago
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