Organisation Refactoring and Culture Hacking - Lessons from Software

Explore software engineering techniques for organizational refactoring and culture hacking in this 51-minute Devoxx conference talk. Learn how to apply your technical skills to address inefficiencies in team structures, power dynamics, and management layers that hinder product delivery. Discover fast-moving culture hacks and safe organizational refactorings to drive effective bottom-up change, focusing on efficient software delivery. Gain insights from the speaker's personal experiences and learn practical strategies to identify and fix organizational problems, inspired by software development methodologies. Understand the importance of continuous incremental change, maker-driven improvements, and leveraging existing skills to transform team dynamics and organizational culture.

Org Refactoring & Culture Hacking Andrew Harmel-Law
Hacking teams is almost as much fun as hacking code
Features have no value until they are in the hands of a user and being used for a productive effort. So any activity not spent getting the next most valuable feature into the hands of a user quickly is just waste.
[P]laced in the same system, people [...] tend to produce similar results
How do
We can do a better job
Three Statements
Organisation structure is best served by being in a constant state of (incremental) change.
The best people to drive these changes are those closest to the action - us, the makers.
Our existing maker skills are ideally suited for this work.
Refactoring and Hacking
II. Read the Dynamic System III. Make the Right Change IV. Kill Consensus V. Beyond Delegation
I. Map the Human
Once upon a time...
Uncover the Circles & Roles
The Advice
It's about POWER
Devolution Beats Delegation
Right changes in end-to-end dynamic systems++
Circles and Roles++
Refactoring or Hack?
What questions do you have? (or tweet me @al94781)