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Sledgehammers and Shit Umbrellas: a field manual for organisational change

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Simon Stead presents a two-act field manual for teams trying to change organisations by building digital products and services.

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For: Teams building digital products inside resistant organisations
Worth noticing: The page previews lessons on stakeholder lies, retrospectives, handovers, skills gaps, and decision-making, alongside 17 template appendices.

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The book divides its material between organisational change and the altered team workflow it associates with AI. Its examples range from choosing a retrospective to mapping the skills a problem requires; the page also describes a lifecycle running from identifying needs through release and checking results. The listed appendices are templates, not a separately described software product.

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