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Timing Is Everything - Learning When Agile Teams Are Ready for Change | Irene Castagnotto

Category: News & Politics
Duration: 00:12:49
Publish Date: 2025-08-20 10:05:00
Description: Irene Castagnotto: Timing Is Everything - Learning When Agile Teams Are Ready for Change

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Irene shares a powerful story about discovering team dependencies and proposing solutions that management initially rejected. When her team identified that Epics weren't organized to avoid dependencies between teams, they proposed using a single unified backlog to manage these challenges. Despite the logical solution, management wasn't ready to accept it. A month later, the same management team returned with the identical proposal. This experience taught Irene that timing is crucial in change management—you don't decide when the right time is; the people involved determine their own readiness. She emphasizes the importance of socializing changes early and often, collecting feedback before proposing major transformations, especially when those changes affect management structures.

Self-reflection Question: How do you balance persistence with patience when you know a change is needed but the organization isn't ready to embrace it?

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