Sabotaging a Transformation • Fred George • YOW! 2022

This presentation was recorded at YOW! 2022. #GOTOcon #YOW Fred George - Early Adopter of OO & Agile, Advocating Microservices & Programmer Anarchy RESOURCES ABSTRACT Transformation efforts must overcome a myriad of challenges to achieve success. Some of the inhibitors we will discuss include: • Executives unaware of the transformation • Failure to engage all the necessary parties • Individuals losing power with the transformation • New roles and disappearing roles • Lack of an effective Change Agent • Success conservatism • Lazy buyers • Blame-oriented cultures For each of these inhibitors, we will cite a) situations where this occurred, b) mitigation actions to overcome the inhibitor, and c) the effectiveness of these efforts. We will conclude by suggesting some best practices we are currently employing in anticipation of likely inhibitors, including our newest proposal process of only selling complete solutions to our clients (not just body-shopping people). [...] TIMECODES 00:00 Intro 01:26 Sabotage? 05:28 Case: NAV Deployments 06:54 Active saboteurs 13:47 Active saboteurs mitigation 23:19 Organizational sabotage 38:55 Other types of sabotage 39:10 Pod as a mitigation strategy 47:05 Other mitigation techniques 50:40 Outro Download slides and read the full abstract here: RECOMMENDED BOOKS Aino Vonge Corry • Retrospectives Antipatterns • Lee, Wickens, Liu & Boyle • Designing for People • Stone, Chaparro, Keebler, Chaparro & McConnell • Introduction to Human Factors • #Transformation #DigitalTransformation #AgileTransformation #Agile #Agility #AgileDevelopment #Teams #Scrum #Scrummaster #AgileSchizophrenia #ProgrammerAnarchy Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at Sign up for updates and specials at SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily.