I’ve come to find that change is not always good, and resistance to change can be good for those that resist.

For example, our German team knew the software that headquarters was going to deploy to them was broken, so they secretly continued to use their old existing process. When the new software was deployed “successfully”, the same software was then deployed in the U.S. and broke horribly. The Germans were told that their responsibility was their region (only), so they literally took care of themselves and refused to be forced to be the guinea pigs.

In addition, I’ve come to learn not to immediately upgrade my OS at work, if I can help it. Typically, being an early adopter means you can get some nasty bugs that sometimes can take days to figure out. No thanks.