“Surprise! I got you a litter of puppies. Don’t worry, here’s a book, food, leashes, toys, everything growing puppies need! And I signed you all up for a training class. You start tomorrow. Good luck!” Would you feel confused, excited, exasperated, overwhelmed, allergic? The feeling might be the same when your boss announces, “Big news everyone! Leadership has decided to train everyone up in the latest framework called [ agile / Scrum / Kanban / SAFe / the Spotify Model / DevSecOps / cloud-native / blockchain / ChatGPT ]. We have great expectations for this investment!” While your reaction will be influenced by your experience with other “transformation initiatives,” there are only three choices ahead: accept the changes, reject them, or do nothing. This session will offer you a set of simple tools for prioritizing your “change budget” and a pragmatic approach to learning what you need, when you need it, and how to bring others along with you.

• A foundation in the principles of effective self-organization
• A personalized short-list of trustworthy agile (and agile-adjacent) sources
• A simple set of tools to navigate your latest organizational change — and the next one(s)
• Hope