Activator

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.

Autorentext

Brandon has a breadth of experience, through his career including CTO, CIO, Director of Operations, Security and Infrastructure, Architect, Consultant, Engineer, Developer, and Project Manager across the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. Some of his accomplishments include consolidating the Operational Intelligence strategy for a large organization with 1200 disparate systems; Architecting a large DoD compute facility and cloud stacks; defining policy used across the world for incident handling in a virtualized datacenter (RSA Conference and VMWorld presentations); and serving as Lead Architect on the team awarded Innovator of the Year from Red Hat. As an entrepreneur, he has led the development of open source software with global team members, pioneered online game technologies, started several companies, and has developed for FreeBSD. More recently, he has created Reflex, an OSS tool to help with the modern challenges of ephemeral system/container management. Brandon is a published author, loves all forms of technical or hacking topics, and blogs about them at http://surfingthe.cloud/. Hailing from the slopes of Utah, he enjoys the outdoors with his family, tabletop games, and writing fiction.

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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 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