Jerry Weinberg influences much of my work and train of thought. I remember when asked about his most significant contribution to software he replied, “I never invented another programming language.”

That’s the intent of this book.

Since the early 2000’s, I’ve helped many organizations, teams, and people adopt agile practices in software, HR, change management, organizational development, marketing and more.

I wanted to use their stories, journals, and pictures to show three main views of looking at agile change management:

• Transforming how you manage change work.
• Transforming how you think about change.
• Transforming how you work with agile teams.

Agile change frameworks, methods, playbooks, and processes can be valuable, but they are based on someone’s view and experiences of how they think you should do it.

This book revisits the intent of agile to make you think about why you want to do agile change management. That will allow you to create a unique approach to match your context versus trying to plug in someone else’s square peg into your context’s round hole.

In the words of Jerry Weinberg, a little jiggle can go a long way, and I hope the stories in this book inspire you. What’s different about this book is that this static artifact is just the beginning. In true agile fashion, it’ll live on and evolve via change- wayfinder.com2