Summary
- Why do teammates resist technical changes?
- Context is power; the bigger the change, the bigger the impact to shared context. Invalidating a bunch of someone’s context can disempower them in ways that concern them, both absolutely and relative to other team members.
- Why the Hollywood approach to presenting big changes doesn’t work.
- A stepwise approach to achieving team buy-in.
For who?
This workshop is targeted at Senior Engineers, Tech Leads, Engineering Managers, and Product Managers.
Learning Objectives
- Learn the underlying reason for teammates to unexpectedly resist an idea.
- Learn how to socialize changes among your technical team.
- Learn to talk to colleagues about changing decisions that they feel attached to.
Requirements
You have some experience writing on production systems in any programming language.
Testimonial
Chelsea is one of the most engaging programming teachers I've learned from in recent memory.