Driving Technical Change

Things to Try

If you are having trouble considering the alternatives, here are a couple of things that you can try to see more:

• Do research on the beginnings of your solution to see what the creators were trying to solve with their efforts.

• Start to learn an alternative to your solution. You don’t necessarily have to become an expert, but be able to fool around with a competing solution.

• Play devil’s advocate. Imagine that you hate this solution and want to do everything you can do to stop your company from implementing it. What arguments would you use? Then ask yourself whether there are any of these legitimate showstoppers.

It seems a little obvious that you should make sure that what you are pushing actually helps and fits your organization, ...