You don’t have to work on an Agile project to work with agile change practices.

In fact, many of our change manager friends tell us they’re delivering change in complex, traditional, waterfall programs—but they’re craving lighter, more collaborative ways of working. Maybe that’s you?

Here’s the good news: you can absolutely freshen up your approach without blowing up your methodology. You don’t need to convert your whole program into sprints and standups to experience the benefits of agile change. You just need to try a few new tools.

And the pay-off?
✅ More engaging conversations.
✅ Faster alignment.
✅ Greater visibility.
✅ Better decision-making.
✅ Less rework.
✅ Happier stakeholders.

So how do you do it?

Start with some simple swaps.

You don’t have to throw out everything you know about change management—you just need to evolve how you do it. We’ve created a practical table that shows you how to substitute your traditional activities with agile change practices that are collaborative, transparent, and lightweight.

👉 Download the Traditional vs Agile Change Practices Table Table Comparison Traditional v Agile March 2025

Here are just a few examples:

Traditional Activity

Agile Practice Alternative

Stakeholder Mapping

Change Blast Radius, Empathy Mapping, Personas

Change Readiness Assessment

Change Ready Checklist or Fist of Five, Lean Coffee, Reverse go-live 

Change Impact Assessment

Think-Act-Feel Framework, Change Blast Radius, 

Training Delivery

Micro Lessons, Content Curation, Lean Filmmaking

Resistance Management

Retrospectives, Futurespectives, Lean Coffee

Communications Planning

Comms Planner, Storytelling, Pecha Kucha, Micro Comms, Lean Filmmaking 

Change planning 

Reverse go live, Change Canvas, Change Roadmap

Change metrics 

Success sliders, Futurespectives,  Change Scorecards 

Change Champions

Social Architecture, 3%

You can start with just one or two and build from there. Test. Tweak. Repeat. You’ll quickly see what resonates with your stakeholders and what lifts your impact.

A Fresh Experience for You and Your People

Agile change tools aren’t about being trendy. They’re about making your work more human-centred, responsive, and impactful. They invite people into the change process earlier, and they help you navigate complexity with more ease and less rigidity.

Even if your project is structured in a linear way, your change practices don’t have to be. And trust us—it feels so much better when you work this way.

Ready to try it?

Start here by thinking about what you are planning to do in the next month. Is there a more collaborative, visual and light weight way to do it? If you are stuck, leave it in the comments and we will make a suggestion. 

Or come join us in the Certificate of Agile Change Management program where you’ll get access to the full Agile Change Playbook, including over 50 practices, templates, and tools that work across all types of change—Agile, Waterfall, or somewhere in between.

Because fresh doesn’t mean starting over—it just means working smarter.