Changing Tack : Adjusting your Sails for the Winds of Change

Keynote address to the WordCamp Sunshine Coast audience, May 2016 in which we talk about strategy to dealing with a WordPress and web development ecosystem that is constantly changing

Transcript

1. Changing Tack
 Adjusting your Sails for the Winds of Change Dee Teal : The Web Princess
2. Dee Teal Web Princess • Front End Developer • Genesis Specialist • Community Organiser • On Contract with • Not really much of a princess http:/ /thewebprincess.com @thewebprincess
3. “When people shake their heads because we are 
 living in a restless age, ask them how 
 they would like to live in a stationary one 
 and do without change?” – George Bernard Shaw
4. Sailing into the Wind
5. is Uncomfortable Change
6. is an Change Opportunity http://www.flickr.com/photos/124790945@N06
7. presents Choices Change http://www.flickr.com/photos/124790945@N06
8. Transition
9. yourself Educate
10. what you can Identify Control
11. how you’ll respond Decide
12. “The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on the old but on building the new.” – Socrates
13. Coming About
14. the DREAM Identify
15. Motivation Establish
16. what you are Shootingfor Know
17. Check Reality
18. Inventory Resources
19. Action Plan Set the
20. accountable Make Yourself
21. Smoother Sailing
22. Q&A
23. Dee Teal Web Princess • Front End Developer • Genesis Specialist • Community Organiser • Team Lead with • Not really much of a princess http:/ /thewebprincess.com @thewebprincess