
Activator
Success in the Tech Industry with Design Thinking
By: Brandon Gillespie, Heather Monson (Editor)
eBook | 17 March 2017 | Edition Number 1
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Fear has quietly and insidiously woven its way throughout the very fabric of how we do business in Technology. Our goals are driven by failure, rather than success.
Design Thinking is a powerful adjustment in how you approach change, helping you to address this fear by becoming an Activator of change. You can be more effective in your Technology career, whether you are CTO, CIO, Architect, Project Manager, Engineer, Developer, or you hold any other role.
Learn about:
- How fear effects the human side of technical people
- The Principles of Design Thinking
- How to use Design Thinking in technical leadership and planning
- How to use Design Thinking to be more successful and effectively make change
- Identifying and ending toxic behavior
"Activator is a must read for anyone strategically planning with any level of complexity. Simply written and powerfully driven home. Brandon takes us down an interesting and thoughtful road that leads to great results."
- Alan Rencher, CIO
"A thoughtful explanation for building tech software or infrastructure, with valuable strategies for the people factor."
-Seth Law, CSO, nVisium
Brandon has a breadth of experience, through his career including CTO, CIO, Director of Operations, Architect, Engineer and Developer across the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. These experiences have given him a unique insight into the behaviors we so often exhibit.
on
- The Problem
- Rapid Technology Innovation
- Technology Crusades
- Relationships and Conflict
- Conversational Dissonance
- Change
- Time
- Parataxic Distortion
- What Is Design?
- What is an Architect?
- Design Deliverables
- Documentation Driven Change (DDC)
- Design Thinking
- Planning
- Plans give Direction
- Plans Change
- Strategic Plans
- Frameworks and Methodologies
- Phase 1 – Empathy
- Relationships
- Customer
- Implementer
- Needs
- Constraints and Risk
- The Power of Sustainment
- Delegate with Success
- Communication
- Know Your Audience
- Be Concise
- Know Your Material
- Analysis
- Primitive Needs and Constraints
- Decomposition
- Work Breakdown Structure
- Team Baselining
- Handling Resistance
- Ownership and Negativity
- Dangerous Allies
- Empathy – Define
- Empathy – Research
- Relationships
- Phase 2 – Creativity
- Meetings
- Marketing and Statistics
- Status Quo is not a Reason
- The Golden Tool
- COTS, In-House, and OSS
- Creativity – Ideation
- Creativity – Prototype
- Phase 3 – Rationality
- Baselines, not Standards
- Total Cost to Own
- Execution
- Partners not Vendors
- Process vs Delivery
- Continuous Change
- Continuous Delivery
- Never Upgrade
- Rationality – Choose
- Rationality – Implement
- Rationality – Learn
- Preparing for Change
- The Silver Bullet Process
- Force
- Leadership Domains
- Motivation
- Vision
- Tracking
- Behavioral Domains
- Project Management
- Becoming Effective
- Applied Design Thinking
ISBN: 9780998749914
ISBN-10: 0998749915
Published: 17th March 2017
Format: ePUB
Language: English
Number of Pages: 204
Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publisher: Revenant Press
Edition Number: 1
























