Change Management tool for Agile Coaches
Hi guys, this time I want to share a simple exercise that I learned last week in the Management 3.0 workshop given by Jurgen Appelo and Mads Troels Hansen. I highly recommend this training! At the end of the training you will go back with a bunch of nice exercises that you can apply right next day at your work.
The exercise is called “Moving Motivators”. To do this exercise, you need a set of cards like these ones. The game is simple, you spread the cards on a horizontal row putting the most important values on the left and the least important ones on the right. After that you think about a change that is happening inside of your organisation and you move the cards up or down depending how the change will impact your values. When you finish, you will have a visual picture how the change will impact you and your values. Below you can find an example.
I believe this exercise can be extremely useful to use with anyone within an organisation that is being affected by changes. I imagine this exercise to be used on a daily basis for Agile Coaches. There are several people, especially middle managers, who are strongly affected when a company goes agile (more about this topic can be found here), performing this game with them can reveal their needs and their fears allowing a coach to work together with them to minimize a negative impact on the work.
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Great stuff. I have used the Moving Motivators to create team agreements, based on what motivates them.
Thanks John :) Its a great idea :) I always find it useful :)
What kind of “change” does the picture reflect?
Sounds interesting. Especially for retrospectives.
I am starting a new job :) So I thought about it :) Freedom is down because in the beginning I want to be sure that I am aligned with most of the people so I cannot decide everything by myself like I was doing on my previous job :)
Hi Luis,
Interesting experiment - I wonder how big of a role bias plays when you are ordering the cards and I wonder how different card ordering was from one participant to another…
Thanks for sharing this!
Thanks :) To be honest I do not know about the other participants :) I can tell you that my pair had almost the same order as mine :) but since I was concentrated on me and my partner I really do not know… But of course the order will be different from person to person since we all have different “Motivators”. But take a look into this: http://www.happymelly.com/an-easy-way-to-talk-about-serious-things they experimented on team level, I think it was a really cool thing ;) Luis
Rob van Lanen has been experimenting with this exercise and he shared with HappyMelly a different way to use this exercise so that it gives us an overview of what is important for a team of people, not just one individual. Check out his explanation here: http://www.happymelly.com/an-easy-way-to-talk-about-serious-things/
Very interesting…I already added it to my tool box…my mind is already working in the way to apply it in one team/company.
I was reading a little more that this post about this game and it seems also interesting to do in manager/upper manager level, coaching 1-to-1 and in teams (not only in scrum teams). I really like it. thanks for share it :)
As soon as I try it, I will write down my experience…Thanks,
Omar
Thanks Omar ;) I will be waiting for your comments ;)
Luis