How to Bake a Change • Daniel Terhorst-North • GOTO 2023

Interesting. speech Daniel Terhorst-North on organizational change. The author emphasizes that there is no one-size-fits-all recipe, but that doesn’t mean consultants and methodical firms aren’t lining up to sell it to you:) Often as this universal recipe offer SAFe, LeSS, Spotify model. (Which Spotify has long since outgrown.). An alternative view of this problem is that each organization and context is different, meaning each needs its own unique recipe that you need to figure out from scratch. The author believes that the truth lies somewhere in the middle. Each situation needs its own contextual approach, but it is not necessary to start from scratch. And in this talk, he talks about his approach, which boils down to the following:

1. Understand the problem. Don't just rock up with a solution.
2. Listen to the people. They know their context better than you
3. Seek alignment. Connect people, and bring them on the journey
4. Try small, iterative, evidence-based changes. Science is hard, VESSA is your friend. VESSA is Visualize, Eliminate, Simplify, Standardize, Automate

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