Driving Technical Change by Terrence Ryan

Driving Technical Change by Terrence Ryan

Your co-workers' resistance to new technologies can be baffling. Logical arguments can fail. If you don't do politics, you will fail. With Driving Technical Change, by Terrence Ryan, you'll learn to read users' patterns of resistance-and then dismantle their objections. Every developer must master the art of evangelizing. With these techniques and strategies, you'll help your organization adopt your solutions-without selling your soul to organizational politics.

Finding cool languages, tools, or development techniques is easy-new ones are popping up every day. Convincing co-workers to adopt them is the hard part. The problem is political, and in political fights, logic doesn't win for logic's sake. Hard evidence of a superior solution is not enough. But that reality can be tough for programmers to overcome.

In Driving Technical Change: Why People On Your Team Don't Act on Good Ideas, and How to Convince Them They Should, Adobe software evangelist Terrence Ryan breaks down the patterns and types of resistance technologists face in many organizations.

You'll get a rich understanding of what blocks users from accepting your solutions. From that, you'll get techniques for dismantling their objections-without becoming some kind of technocratic Machiavelli.

In Part I, Ryan clearly defines the problem. Then in Part II, he presents resistance patterns-there's a pattern for each type of person resisting your technology, from The Uninformed to The Herd, The Cynic, The Burned, The Time Crunched, The Boss, and The Irrational. In Part III, Ryan shares his battle-tested techniques for overcoming users' objections. These build on expertise, communication, compromise, trust, publicity, and similar factors. In Part IV, Ryan reveals strategies that put it all together-the patterns of resistance and the techniques for winning buy-in. This is the art of organizational politics.

In the end, change is a two-way street: In order to get your co-workers to stretch their technical skills, you'll have to stretch your soft skills. This book will help you make that stretch without compromising your resistance to playing politics. You can overcome resistance-however illogical-in a logical way.

Terrence Ryan is currently employed with Adobe Systems as an Evangelist. He works on ColdFusion, Flash, Flex, and AIR marketing. His duty as an evangelist is to persuade people to try out new tools and practices. Prior to that, he spent 10 years in higher education, managing a team of developers, doing code reviews, enforcing standards, and persuading coworkers to use new tools and approaches.

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ISBN 13	9781934356609
ISBN 10	1934356603
Titel	Driving Technical Change
Autor	Terrence Ryan
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	The Pragmatic Programmers
Erscheinungsjahr	2010-12-28
Seitenanzahl	200
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