The People Factor

Forcing change in risk-averse organizations.

members-only post May 10, 2011 3-min read

My first four posts in this series have focused mostly on technological hurdles in modernizing organizations' applications and systems. If writing three "techie" books has taught me anything, though, it's that people matter more than the actual technologies being implemented. And that's the topic of this post: human beings.

Note that, in this post, "legacy systems" mean systems that no longer meet core business needs.

Technology Through the Lens of People

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