Changing how 10 people work is difficult. Changing how 5,000 is near impossible. If you’re trying to move beyond your initial success at transforming how your organization builds and runs software, you’re experienced this problem.

I have a short presentation on this topic going over why I think that in IT organizations and some ways to address those problems.

In the talk, I usually recommend avoiding building your own platform and mention the one I work on, the Tanzu Platform.

Here are slides from a recent version of this talk at SREDay Amsterdam 2024.

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If you’re into this topic, you might also like:

• My Books on changing and improving how large organizations do software - I write about the topic of change a lot in my books, most of which are free to download.
• The Business Bullshit Dictionary - decoding weird words and talk in The Enterprise.
• Surviving and Thriving in a BigCo - my O’Reilly video series of tips for working in a large organization.
• Subscribing to my newsletter - where I often link to organization change stuff, tech things, and plenty of other nonsense.