Merge pull request #50 from weeklydevchat/NL_2025-11-18

Change Management

Author: normanlorrain

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+title: "Managing Change / Change Management"
+date: 2025-11-18
+authors:
+ - norm 
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+This is a big topic! We can discuss change at the corporate/organizational level, or we can zoom in on controlling change in software development. I’ll leave it open for the group to steer the conversation. Controversial opinions welcome.
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+Anyone have horror stories? Boss drops a 500-page manual on your desk Friday afternoon and says “figure this new tool out by Monday”? You show up one morning and the entire phone system/email client/ERP has been replaced overnight with zero warning?
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+What about managing requirements? You work for weeks on a feature and it's suddenly dropped? Or a new requirement causes a major rewrite? Or maybe the real issue about managing expectations.
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+Regarding version-control, we can also dig into trunk-based vs feature-branch workflows vs Git Flow, and when each actually makes sense. 
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+Everyone and anyone are welcome to [join](https://weeklydevchat.com/join/) as long as you are kind, supportive, and respectful of others. Zoom link will be posted at 12pm MDT.
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