Day Two Digital Transformation: We Fear Change

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Abstract, as submitted

Changing how 10 people work is difficult, changing how 100 work is very difficult. And, barring Planck's principle, changing how 5,000 or more people work is, typically, impossible. When it comes to improving how large organisations build, release, and run software, scaling to thousands of people is the real challenge. If you're trying to move beyond your initial success at transforming how your organisation builds and runs software, you've experienced this scaling challenge. Thankfully, most of the problems in this challenge are common challenges. Though you may feel cursed and alone, in our experience talking with hundreds of organisations, most of the problems are the same. In this third, final, part of our Path to Production webinar series we'll look at several of these common challenges and give tactics to address them. Part of applying a tactic successfully is understanding why the challenge exists. We'll cover: Building confidence and trust in change by shifting how you build your developer-centric infrastructure from service delivery to product management. Platform advocacy and marketing. Do you have a t-shirt for your platform yet? If not, better get one! Engineering and managing the roll-out of changes to large organisations. Our goal is to give you practical, usable tactics and management tools that we've learned first-hand and from other large organisations.

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