30.11.2011
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| Context | Modern turbulent, ever-changing environments call for human organisations, be they for profit or not, to adapt to their environments and evolve with them in order to survive, grow and thrive in the long term. This is done through both planned and spontaneous organisational change projects. |
| Problem | Most organisational change projects are ineffective because of a top-down-approach. Most organisational change projects are top down endeavours, in which upper management decides everything: the vision (why), the objectives (what and how much) as well as the exact path to follow to make these changes materialise (when, how and how fast). This top down approach seldom works because no specific organisational member can decide for any other individual when, how and how fast this other individual will change. An organisation, particularly one consisting of knowledge workers, is a complex adaptive system (CAS): members must individually desire to change for any change to happen. If such desire exists, and sufficient resources are available to support the change process, then the proper change driver is in place to get individuals to spontaneously collaborate and self-organise. A bottom-up collaborative path to change will then emerge and the current situation will start to evolve towards the desired one naturally, without being imposed. |
| Forces | too little/too much upper management control over the nature and the details of path to change
too little/too much resources allocated to a change endeavour
too little/too much resistance to change
too much/too little use of collaborative processes |
| Solution | Changeboxing is a possible solution to accelerate necessary organisational change projects and make them succeed. It has been used successfully in real life organisational change projects. It is a process that is designed to take advantage of a CAS natural self-organisation, emergence and evolution properties in response to necessary change stimuli. Changeboxing increases the strength of change drivers, fosters collaborative, voluntary self-organisation and promotes the natural emergence and evolution of the best possible path to change. It supports emergence and speeds everything up, through the use of agile techniques like accelerating change benefits by «timeboxing» the delivery of change elements and using these elements as additional resources to evolve towards the desired situation, through tangible quick wins for all stakeholders. The solution is described step by step in «The Official Changeboxing Cheat sheet». |
| Resulting Context | Successful organisational change projects, with better overall stakeholders’ ownership and accelerated benefits materialisation. |
Note: This pattern has been contributed by
Claude Emond.
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Posted by Andreas Heilwagen
25.11.2011
Claude has been so kind to provide me with the PDF version of his cheat sheet, which you can download by clicking on the image.
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15.11.2011
For the afternoon, I chose to join Claude’s masterclass on Changeboxing. He created this approach based on change management, agile and a lot of common sense. After several highly successful implementations, he now rolls out this approach using his own company. Besides he lectures in France and works on creating a community around his approach on the web.
Summary of Changeboxing
It works through inducing/increasing the desire to change collectively (change driver). It then uses a process cycling change stakeholders through multiple self-organization/emergence/testing/evolution loops stimulating collborative change.
As soon as you have a change driver, self-organization starts and you just have to feed the PDCA cycle.
His official cheat sheet explaining the approach in more detail:
During the masterclass he went through the cheat sheet in detail and I hope that I can provide the sheet as download soon.
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15.11.2011
We also had an interactive lecture by Lennart Svensson, Director of Research at HELIX VINN, Center of Excellence at Linköping University on sustainable program management. Active Ownership, Cooperation and Learning are the key mechanisms for him to implement sustainable change and he recommends the following chain links to organize sustainable development:
- Active participants
experiment, make changes - Competent management
formulat goals, lead, involve, organize - Professional steering
formulate a mission, take strategic decisions - Active Ownership
have a vision, allocate ressources, implement results
The good thing was, that Prof. Svennson shared results from his studies and created an environment where we discussed more than during any other presentation, however the recurring thread was not as clear.
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Posted by Andreas Heilwagen
15.11.2011
Claude Emond from Quality Scope Enterprises talked about Changeboxing aka “Transforming your organization at the speed of light with Agile Project Management” in a very entertaining way with a full-blown color attack on Powerpoint. He describes himself as a Matane’s Shrimp…speaking like a Beauceron and “playing” 2-String Project Management ,-)
Here is one of his best slides during talking about human nature and change projects:
In an ideal world, everybody on a project team rows like a robot with no view on the goal doing what the project manager tells him/her to do (…ok, not seriously, but to many people are using that lousy picture). However, the real world usually looks like the picture on the lower right side.
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Posted by Andreas Heilwagen
15.11.2011
Finally the 1.000th posting is here and that happened after I startet the blog only in August three years ago. I hope you enjoyed it and now I want to become the content even better. So here’s a little competition on the best content…
Win- € 100 for the best new Pattern for the Scrum Pattern Repository.
- € 50 for the best posting contributed to the blog.
- € 25 for the best suggestion for content I should provide in the blog.
The competition is open until end of the month 11/30/2011 23:59 MEST. Regarding patterns, you can detail patterns where only the pattern name is currently in the repository or you can contribute a new pattern using the format I already use in english language. A posting should be on an interesting topic providing value to the readers in english or german language and suggestions can be anything S.M.A.R.T.
Of course your contribution will be published with a short description and a foto if you like.
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