XTC: Surviving Mergers of Companies, Teams and Cultures

Topic: Surviving Mergers of Companies, Teams and Cultures

With a number of the last meetup's attendees potentially soon to have some sort of organisational restructuring thrust upon them, I am interested to hear people's thoughts, advice and experiences of either an entire development organisation being merged with another, or teams being merged after internal restructuring, or even how people cope with finding themselves on a new team.

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I imagine we'll have some discussions in smaller groups to begin with and will feed back insights to the whole group towards the end. Failing that, at least we can all have a rant about how the managers have no idea what they're doing*.

Thanks to Douglas Waugh (https://twitter.com/douglas0waugh) for proposing this topic.

• probably not true

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