Description: Further DetailsTitle: Driving Technical ChangeCondition: NewEAN: 9781934356609ISBN: 9781934356609Publisher: The Pragmatic ProgrammersFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 12/28/2010Language: EnglishDescription: 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.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: Business & FinanceAuthor: Terrence RyanISBN-10: 1934356603Item Length: 190mmItem Height: 235mmType: Management SkillsItem Width: 10mmBook Series: PRAGMATIC BOOKSHELFRelease Year: 2010 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Driving Technical Change
Title: Driving Technical Change
EAN: 9781934356609
ISBN: 9781934356609
Release Date: 12/28/2010
Release Year: 2010
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Business & Finance
ISBN-10: 1934356603
Series: PRAGMATIC BOOKSHELF
Number of Pages: 200 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Driving Technical Change
Publisher: Pragmatic Programmers, LLC, T.H.E.
Item Height: 0.4 in
Publication Year: 2010
Subject: Leadership, Industrial Management, Social Aspects / General, General, Organizational Development
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 9 Oz
Subject Area: Computers, Technology & Engineering, Business & Economics
Item Length: 9.3 in
Author: Terrence Ryan
Item Width: 7.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
