Change Management: Overcoming Resistance for Agile Transformation
Course overview
About this course
This course gives you practical strategies and tools to lead teams through agile adoption with confidence. Effective change leadership helps you:
- Overcome resistance to new ways of working
- Support teams as they adopt agile practices (scrum is covered as a specific framework for enacting agility)
- Align goals between teams and leadership
- Accelerate delivery and reduce delays
- Create conditions for lasting transformation
Adoption is rarely seamless, but when teams feel supported, they adapt faster, engage more fully, and deliver stronger results. Whether your organization is just beginning or refining its agile journey, this course helps you make change stick
Time: 4 hours
Format: On demand and self-paced
Credential: You'll receive a Northwestern and Scrum Alliance microcredential for "Agile Change Management"
Prerequisites: None
What you'll get:
- Practical change management strategies for agile adoption
- Guidance for leading teams new to scrum practices
- Templates and resources for resistance mapping, current/future state analysis, and change planning
- Case examples to illustrate real-world challenges
- Two years of Scrum Alliance membership for new or lapsed members
Who should take this course?
If you are an agile professional guiding teams through an agile adoption, this course will help you reduce resistance, increase engagement, and accelerate organizational results.
Ideal for:
- Scrum masters
- Product owners
- Agile practitioners with 3+ years of experience
- Professionals leading teams in software, process, or product delivery
- Leaders who know agile but are new to formal change management
Course modules
Module Summary
Learners will explore some reasons why agile adoption efforts often fail. This module outlines the skills needed to understand these barriers and resistance and best practices and approaches to achieve adoption success.
Module Summary
In this module, learners will gain an understanding of change management, why it is needed, common methods, key terminology, and critical activities in the change management process.
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This module will empower learners to build upon their understanding of deploying change management strategies to support agile adoption.
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Learners will develop an understanding of how to assess the current and future state of the agile adoption. This module outlines the steps for completing a change impact analysis and provides learners with guidance on selecting appropriate change strategies based on their findings.
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In this module, learners will review how to capture change management strategies in a change management plan, and build their understanding of how to adjust plans mid-project in the face of newly uncovered resistance.
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In this module, learners will review the key course concepts and engage in a post-course reflection about what they have learned.
Scrum Alliance + Northwestern University
Practical training from trusted leaders, built for today's agile workplace.
What this means for you:
- A reputable credential backed by two trusted institutions
- Actionable strategies grounded in agile thinking and organizational science
- Skills you can apply immediately on agile, hybrid, or traditional projects
- Designed for experienced professionals ready to lead with influence
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Is a microcredential worth it?
Microcredentials are a great way to continually add new skills with fast and flexible formats. Here are just a few reasons microcredential training is a worthwhile investment for you and your team.
- Focused expertise — gain specialized knowledge in a specific area
- Flexible learning — learn the way you prefer by choosing from live or on-demand learning formats
- Cost-effective — typically less expensive than certifications or degree programs
- Relevant — topics prioritized to cover industry trends and emerging technologies
- Expedient — earn a credential in hours as opposed to weeks, months, or years
- Recognizable — validated by Scrum Alliance, a globally recognized credentialing body
- Practical — build skills and knowledge immediately applicable in your role
- Stackable — combine microcredentials to build comprehensive learning pathways
In this course, you will learn how to recognize common barriers to agile adoption, apply change management methods, and design simple strategies to help teams embrace new practices with confidence.
Agile transformations succeed when people embrace new ways of working. Change management gives you tools to address resistance and build lasting momentum for adoption.
Agile change management is people-centered, iterative, and adaptable. It combines proven change methods with agile values so you can lead change in fast-moving, evolving environments.
While the examples in the Change Management course focus on scrum adoption, the strategies are relevant for any agile leader responsible for guiding teams through change.
By the end of the course, you will be able to identify resistance, analyze current and future states, and build a simple change management plan. You will leave ready to guide your teams through agile adoption and help your organization achieve stronger results.
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Lead change with confidence and turn agile adoption into lasting success.