Helping Geeks Produce.
Let s talk about the basic concept of the 'making app'. I ve written about this before, and demoed it in some of my public project walk-throughs, but there s no single straightforward explanation out there, so let s take a swing. What is a 'making app', and why might one want to roll one for a project? In [ ]
Leading Technical Change is a small, live, remote seminar aimed squarely at a single topic: Real Change in the Real World. A new cohort is open now: March 11,12,14, 15, 10am to noon Eastern (UTC-5). There are just six seats available, so we can drill down on the actual situations in which you re seeking [ ]
Today I want to answer a question that, honestly, almost no one ever asks. Why are we changing frames, instead of getting rid of them altogether? Talking about change in the geek trades is a joy for me, but I m even more interested in seeing change out in the world. Please think outside the monitor. [ ]
We started with the concept of the mental frame, a comparatively rigid invisible construct which structures and guides nearly all our behaviors. Today, let s take up the triad of powerful forces that we can use to change frames: community, narrative, and experience. https://www.geepawhill.org/2023/01/20/changing-the-frame/ As ever with me, though considering change in the geek trades [ ]
For nearly everyone who seeks to facilitate change, the first faltering step is usually in the crafting of a persuasive argument.
Here s another technique card from my seminar, Leading Technical Change . We first get into midwifing change precisely because we want it to be smoother, easier, and faster. But sometimes, a coach needs not to rush a decision through, but to slow it down. It s so exciting when our proposed change starts to catch fire, especially [ ]
If we re going to enable and support change, we re going to fail, more often than we succeed, and we want to bake that idea in, early on, lest we fail both more often, and potentially more disastrously. Here s some thoughts around this NOT DEPRESSING topic. 🙂 The weirdest thing about all this: it s actually rather [ ]
Can we be honest? If we re going to be successful change midwives, honesty is very important. In this technique card from Leading Technical Change, I talk about some of the ins outs of this complicated topic. The first point is urgent: Being honest means believing everything you say, not saying everything you believe. Honesty [ ]
I was gratified by the response to my first 'detail' article. But I did note that many persons praised my article for its commitment to the long game. Framing the commitment, for a geek, to detail, as a long game, seems right, sounds right, cuz after all, we only ever care about quality in the [ ]
The people who hire me ask me to help their teams make changes. Most of the time, my first step is to see how I can slash those teams load. Here s a technique card from my seminar, Leading Technical Change Raw text of a technique card: Wait, what? First thing I do To me, this [ ]