Sabotaging a Transformation

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Describes concrete failures and fixes: a Norwegian program moves from ~12 to 135 deployments a year by adopting continuous delivery, microservices and mob programming, and a consultancy uses an 8-week pod that ships working microservices within five weeks. Names specific mitigations—Stalin strategy (ignore loud resisters), sandwich strategy (secure exec buy-in and team buy-in), inject competence, change-agent exit timing, seating and title rewrites—and reports these interventions produce durable adoption in the reported cases.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 1:38Sabotage?
3. 3:49Case: NAV Deployments
4. 4:44Active saboteurs
5. 8:42Active saboteurs mitigation
6. 16:27Organizational sabotage
7. 28:47Other types of sabotage
8. 29:19Pod as a mitigation strategy
9. 37:55Other mitigation techniques
10. 41:43Outro

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