Overcoming bureaucracy to succeed at digital transformation
summary
Claims a real shift: release cycles drop from ~18 months to about three releases a day, and a heavy approval process of 87 documents and 11 gate reviews is replaced by ~15 documents and two 15‑minute online reviews. Uses 30+ practical techniques organized into three approaches — monkey persona, razor persona, sumo wrestler persona — including provoke-and-observe experiments, value‑stream "razor" simplifications, and turning audit enforcement into an enabling policy to accelerate DevOps and agile delivery.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:21What is bureaucracy
- 5:14The standard definition
- 6:42Quick observations
- 9:57Is bureaucracy good
- 16:40Three personas
- 18:00Monkey
- 21:45Sumo Wrestling
- 24:34Putting it all together
- 24:59The delicate art of bureaucracy
- 25:54Summary
- 26:39AWS Training
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