PMO | Smooth Transition

The boiling frog is a fable describing a frog being slowly boiled alive. The premise is that if a frog is put suddenly into boiling water, it will jump out, but if the frog is put in tepid water, which is then brought to a boil slowly, it will not perceive the danger and will be cooked to death". The one thing we learned from this is how to interact with individuals during change management: make small tasks one at a time to progress in the desired direction. 

Case Study - Meeting Reduction
Let's look at a case study. When we observe project managers join too many dev team meetings, we decide to make the change to pull the PMs out of the unnecessary dev meetings to focus on projects.

The change management strategy incorporates the following: (1) reducing attendance from one meeting at a time, letting people get used to not having PMs on the call first, and then pulling the PMs out completely. (2) breaking down the stakeholder alliance by asking questions like, "Why is the meeting is required? Are the objectives of the meeting?". Then, figure out which stakeholder to start with and start from there. ​

The process turns out to be effective, but it requires patience and carefully plotted changing paths. Do you have any examples or more thoughts on this? ​