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Evil Genius 101
Half Day Afternoon
(1:30 pm-5:00 pm)
Thurgood Marshall West Ballroom
New!
Description:
You want to innovate: deploy new technologies such as configuration management (CFEngine, Puppet, Chef), a wiki, or standardized configurations. Your coworkers don't want change. They like it the way things are. Therefore, they consider you evil. However you aren't evil; you just want to make things better.
Who should attend:
Anyone who wants to improve processes and learn about managing change.
Take back to work:
The communication, analysis, and persuasion skills you need to make your workplace better.
Topics include:
- Helping your coworkers understand and agree to your awesome ideas
- Convincing your manager about anything—really
- Turning the most stubborn user into your biggest fan
- Getting others to trust you so they are more easily convinced
- Deciding which projects to do when you have more projects than time
- Making decisions based on data and evidence
- Driving improvements based on a methodology and planning instead of guessing and luck
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