Can do vs Can't do culture

http://recode.net/2014/01/01/can-do-vs-cant-do-culture/

Get out of the way I'm trying to work

A great concise post by Ayende on the Corporate development environments.

Part 1

Part 2

Take aways:

1. Development teams need access to allocated discretionary budgets for the express purpose to remove impediments -
1. Lack of tools
2. Lack of specialised skills (contractors, coaches, trainers)
3. Access to immediate replacement of broken hardware
2. Its more damaging for the business in the long run to burn out staff and deliver substandard software on time than to deliver late.

Introducing change and improvement into a change adverse environment

Here are some useful resources I have found reading about this topic.

• Who moved my cheese? by Spencer Johnson
• Code Squeeze - Prelude to change
• Code Squeeze - Resistance to change
• Code Squeeze - The Delivery
• Code Squeeze - Companies aren't progress, people are.
• Code Squeeze - Intellectuals don't appreciate intelligence.