Becoming a Change Artist

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  • In
  • Volume
  • 7
  • of
  • the
  • highly
  • acclaimed
  • Quality
  • Software
  • series,
  • Gerald
  • M.
  • Weinberg
  • illustrates
  • how
  • skilled
  • people
  • (Change
  • Artists)
  • work
  • to
  • create
  • a
  • supportive
  • environment
  • for
  • software
  • engineering
  • —an
  • environment
  • in
  • which
  • your
  • organization
  • can
  • realize
  • long-lasting
  • gains
  • in
  • quality
  • and
  • productivity
  • by
  • learning
  • the
  • artistry
  • of
  • managing
  • change.As
  • the
  • author
  • argues,
  • the
  • history
  • of
  • software
  • engineering
  • is
  • riddled
  • with
  • failed
  • attempts
  • to
  • improve
  • quality
  • and
  • productivity
  • without
  • first
  • creating
  • a
  • supportive
  • environment.
  • Many
  • managers
  • spend
  • their
  • money
  • on
  • tools,
  • methodologies,
  • outsourcing,
  • training,
  • and
  • application
  • packages,
  • but
  • they
  • rarely
  • spend
  • anything
  • to
  • improve
  • or
  • to
  • remove
  • the
  • leaders
  • who
  • created
  • those
  • situations
  • in
  • the
  • first
  • place.From
  • systems
  • thinking
  • to
  • project
  • management
  • to
  • technology
  • transfer
  • to
  • the
  • interaction
  • of
  • culture
  • and
  • process,
  • Becoming
  • a
  • Change
  • Artist
  • analyzes
  • models
  • of
  • how
  • change
  • really
  • happens,
  • and
  • how
  • change
  • artistry
  • creates
  • the
  • environment
  • for
  • all
  • other changes.
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