Terrence Ryan currently works as a Flash Platform Evangelist for Adobe Systems. As an evangelist his job is to encourage people to try new tools and techniques. Before that, he spent ten years in higher education overseeing the work of a team of developers, running code reviews, pushing standards, and trying to convince co-workers to come around to new tools and techniques.
""At its core, Driving Technical Change is a fantastic book about
design patterns. In it, Terrence Ryan clearly outlines common,
problematic personalities--"skeptics"--and provides proven
solutions for bringing about progressive change. It is certainly an
unfortunate fact of human behavior that people are oftentimes
resistant to implementing best practices; however, using Terry's
book as a guide, you will now be able to identify why people push
back against change and what you can do to remain successful in the
face of adversity.""--Ben Nadel, Chief Software Engineer, Epicenter
Consulting
""Politics is one of the most challenging and underestimated
subjects in the field of technology. Terrence Ryan has tackled this
problem courageously and with a methodical approach. His book can
help you understand many types of resistance (both rational and
irrational) and make a strategy for getting people on board with
your technology vision.""--Bill Karwin, Author of "SQL
Antipatterns: Avoiding the Pitfalls of Database Programming"
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