Breaking The Frame: How We Create Change In The Software Trade

You want to change how things are done at work. Maybe it's a change in technique, or in architecture, or in process or rules, or maybe it's just code. You set off with great energy and fury, but soon enough, you come to a dead stop. You and your team are caught in a mental frame that halts the change, a set of concepts, models, and metaphors that you simply cannot seem to get around.

What's a frame, and how do we break it?

In this talk, we'll meet 1) the trade's dominant anti-change frame, 2) a viable change-enabling frame, and 3) the primary tool we can use to change one to the other, a tightly woven braid composed of community, narrative, and experience. If you want to facilitate change, in yourself, the code, the team, or the process, come to GeePaw's talk about how to break the frame.

Bio:

GeePaw Hill is a coach – a professional harvester of the value of change -- in the software development industry. A geek for forty years, he's spent the last two decades helping individuals, teams, and organizations take steps to become closer to who or how they wish to be. As a speaker at conferences around the world, he is known for his mixture of warm insight and comical irreverence. Check him out here: https://geepawhill.org