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Terry Ryan
Author of 'Driving Technical Change'
Terry is also the author of Driving Technical Change, a Pragmatic Bookshelf title. It's about convincing reluctant co-workers to adopt new tools and ideas.
He blogs at http://terrenceryan.com/blog and is tpryan on Twitter.
Blog
PhoneGap Starter Project - Productivity
Posted Monday, May 14, 2012
A few weeks back Ryan Stewart posted on his idea for PhoneGap Starter projects. They were designed to take some of the grief out of getting started with various aspects of PhoneGap and PhoneGap Build projects. I've contributed a project based on one ofmore »D2WC Next Week
Posted Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Next week, I'll be speaking at D2WC, a designer/developer workflow conference in Kansas City, Missouri. I'll be talking about Using PhoneGap Build to simplify your mobile development life. One of the great things about PhoneGap is that it allows you tomore »Using CSS Regions as an Enhancement
Posted Thursday, April 12, 2012
If you were not aware of them CSS Regions are proposal to CSS3 that would allow for some magazine like layouts in HTML pages. Adobe has been leading the charge on getting them into WebKit. They are currently available in Chrommore »Presentations
Design for the Developer
"That's really useful, but it looks like it was designed by a developer." Ever heard that? Want to fix it?more »Driving Technical Change
Ever been to a conference, get inspired, try to bring what you learned back to the office, only to be stymied by co-workers who aren't interested in rocking the status quo? It turns out that people tend to resist change in patterns, and like any patternmore »Design for the Developer
By Terry Ryan
"That's really useful, but it looks like it was designed by a developer."
Ever heard that? Want to fix it? Think you don't have design ability?
Here's a dirty little secret, design is a skill, it can be learned. This session will take you through the basics of design theory for applications. By the end you should be on your way to building not just useful apps that people have to use, but awesome apps that people love to use.
Topics to include:
- Design Dos and Don'ts
- Planning a Design
- Design Fundamentals
- Layout
- Typography
Driving Technical Change
By Terry Ryan
Ever been to a conference, get inspired, try to bring what you learned back to the office, only to be stymied by co-workers who aren't interested in rocking the status quo? It turns out that people tend to resist change in patterns, and like any pattern they can be overcome by using other people's experiences with those skeptics. This session will teach you how to identify the skeptics, how to counter them, and give you a strategic framework to convince your whole office.
This session will go into detail in the patterns and techniques of Driving Technical Change including: skeptic types, countering techniques, and master strategy using those techniques to achieve change in your organization.
Books
by Terrence Ryan
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Finding cool languages, tools, or development techniques is easy-new ones are popping up every day. Convincing co-workers to adopt them is the hard part. The problem is political, and in political fights, logic doesn't win for logic's sake. Hard evidence of a superior solution is not enough. But that reality can be tough for programmers to overcome.
In Driving Technical Change: Why People On Your Team Don't Act on Good Ideas, and How to Convince Them They Should, Adobe software evangelist Terrence Ryan breaks down the patterns and types of resistance technologists face in many organizations.
You'll get a rich understanding of what blocks users from accepting your solutions. From that, you'll get techniques for dismantling their objections-without becoming some kind of technocratic Machiavelli.
In Part I, Ryan clearly defines the problem. Then in Part II, he presents "resistance patterns"-there's a pattern for each type of person resisting your technology, from The Uninformed to The Herd, The Cynic, The Burned, The Time Crunched, The Boss, and The Irrational. In Part III, Ryan shares his battle-tested techniques for overcoming users' objections. These build on expertise, communication, compromise, trust, publicity, and similar factors. In Part IV, Ryan reveals strategies that put it all together-the patterns of resistance and the techniques for winning buy-in. This is the art of organizational politics.
In the end, change is a two-way street: In order to get your co-workers to stretch their technical skills, you'll have to stretch your soft skills. This book will help you make that stretch without compromising your resistance to playing politics. You can overcome resistance-however illogical-in a logical way.
Price: $21.64
You Save: $11.31 (34%)
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Finding cool languages, tools, or development techniques is easy-new ones are popping up every day. Convincing co-workers to adopt them is the hard part. The problem is political, and in political fights, logic doesn't win for logic's sake. Hard evidence of a superior solution is not enough. But that reality can be tough for programmers to overcome.
In Driving Technical Change: Why People On Your Team Don't Act on Good Ideas, and How to Convince Them They Should, Adobe software evangelist Terrence Ryan breaks down the patterns and types of resistance technologists face in many organizations.
You'll get a rich understanding of what blocks users from accepting your solutions. From that, you'll get techniques for dismantling their objections-without becoming some kind of technocratic Machiavelli.
In Part I, Ryan clearly defines the problem. Then in Part II, he presents "resistance patterns"-there's a pattern for each type of person resisting your technology, from The Uninformed to The Herd, The Cynic, The Burned, The Time Crunched, The Boss, and The Irrational. In Part III, Ryan shares his battle-tested techniques for overcoming users' objections. These build on expertise, communication, compromise, trust, publicity, and similar factors. In Part IV, Ryan reveals strategies that put it all together-the patterns of resistance and the techniques for winning buy-in. This is the art of organizational politics.
In the end, change is a two-way street: In order to get your co-workers to stretch their technical skills, you'll have to stretch your soft skills. This book will help you make that stretch without compromising your resistance to playing politics. You can overcome resistance-however illogical-in a logical way.
