Navigating complex projects: Finding the right mode of operation
summary
Groups of hard projects break into migrations shadowing and acceleration with AI as a fourth nondeterministic class where one prompt rarely transfers to another use case. Success focuses on concrete targets: earn customer trust by surfacing bad news early, treat security as nonnegotiable, and set SLOs that match or exceed the old environment. Influence comes from practiced tactics — private stakeholder backchannels, regular calibrations, and honest retros — methods that report wins in peer and customer feedback.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:27Three project types
- 3:11Migration success targets
- 6:21Shadowing projects
- 7:46Acceleration challenges
- 9:35AI projects complexity
- 11:59Leadership styles
- 13:25Assertive leadership
- 15:07Adaptive architecture
- 17:16Influencing without authority
- 18:42Three influence superpowers
- 21:36Summary
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