Agile and change management are closely related, but distinct. Agile comprises a set of principles, practices and tools that help teams deliver value to stakeholders. These include working very closely with product owners and customers, conducting regular retrospectives and improving feedback loops to better understand why certain changes were successful or unsuccessful, so that such changes can be made in the future. Change management is about ensuring that the processes used to manage agile are adaptive, responsive and timely. This means implementing different processes for different scenarios or environments where appropriate – for example, performing rapid deployments during beta testing instead of waiting for final production deployment.

When you are looking at how agile and change management work hand in hand, it's important to understand that they are a constantly changing dynamic. As a manager or leader, your role is to maintain focus on both organizational agility and on-going change management processes. This can be done through planning and strategy, building buy-in across teams, limiting scope creep, software design patterns and task design to keep within budgets.

Achieving Agility in Agile and Scrum Teams, Second Edition shows you how agile, rapid and iterative software development can be managed to add value to your organization’s regular practices. This revised version includes more detailed examples and insights within each of the main areas: change management, quality assurance, review and acceptance testing, tracking and reporting, organizational change management