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The technology is the easy part

Ben Balter
February 05, 2016

The technology is the easy part

Using technology as a vehicle for organization change

Ben Balter

February 05, 2016
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  1. THE TECHNOLOGY IS THE EASY PART Using technology as a

    vehicle for organization change @benbalter ben.balter.com
  2. CONWAY'S LAW "organizations which design systems... are constrained to produce

    designs 
 which are copies of the communication 
 structures of these organizations"
  3. BOX CHECKING Can we meet our self-imposed 
 security and

    compliance requirements? Symptom three
  4. "The stronger the culture, the less process a company needs.

    When the culture is strong, you can trust everyone to do the right thing. People can be independent and autonomous. They can be entrepreneurial." BRIAN CHESKY, Co-Founder, AirBnB
  5. TECHNOCRATIC LEADERSHIP System is rigged for suits, against geeks Organizations

    forgo fundamentals No need to scratch technical itches LACK OF
  6. LEAN If there’s a less heavyweight solution, and you’re not

    using it, you’ve over-engineered things. Think open source, APIs, and shared standards
  7. ITERATIVE If you are not embarrassed by the first version

    of you ship, you’ve waited too long to ship. Ship 0.1, not 1.0
  8. DECENTRALIZED Avoid single points of failure, both in systems and

    in people. Push decisions to the crowd. Automate wherever possible. Eliminate all humans.
  9. OPEN Barriers to the free-flow of information add friction. Make

    open the default. Expose process. Open standards, open formats, open systems.
  10. THE TECHNOLOGY IS THE EASY PART Using technology as a

    vehicle for organization change @benbalter ben.balter.com