High Time for the HR and Tech Common Backlog

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I’ve written about the perils of the “us” vs. “them” many times before and it is in a sense the reason behind writing my book, a strong desire to see a bridge. As long as organisations have this massive organisational divide they can’t reach their full potential. In particular the “us Tech” versus “them HR/People” when it comes to technology and Agile.

The size of the HumanDebt™ is almost always directly proportionate to the size of the divide in those organisations. In other words, the less of a real team IT and HR are, the more the people topics fall by the wayside.

And they fall hard. Both sides know how wrong it all can be and how desperately needed the human work is for any kind of agility to happen, but can’t find a way to bridge it and make it all better so they largely come to a place where they get stuff done separately from each other (or even in spite of each other in some shops!) but certainly not together.