Workbook
The Platform Transition Workbook
What You Owe Your Team When You Ask Them to Learn Everything Again
You are asking experts to become beginners and calling it a migration.
For the engineering manager or platform leader asking experienced professionals to learn everything again who needs a plan for the human cost the technical project does not cover.
The Name It First Experience
You are asking experienced professionals to surrender the competence their standing is built on. Your Platform Transition Charter is the leadership document that makes your obligations to the team explicit before the migration starts. This workbook names what you owe your team through the expertise disruption and produces a signed commitment to psychological safety and support.
You can opt into 30-, 60-, and 90-day check-ins from your account. We recommend you do — the point is to see what changed.
Sample questions
- What do you owe your team when you are asking them to unlearn what they built and learn everything again?
- Where has the human cost of the platform transition been most underestimated?
- What does a platform transition that is honest with your team — about the work, the timeline, and the disruption — look like?
Research basis
Dreyfus and Dreyfus skill acquisition model applied to expert-to-novice transition / Kegan immunity to change applied to expert identity and resistance / Hobfoll conservation of resources applied to expertise under threat / Hill becoming a manager applied to reversed identity transition / DORA research on developer experience and psychological safety
Choose your format.
Every format asks the same questions and produces the same document.
Print Paperbackpersonalize
A real book and a pen. Write in the margins. The most permanent version of you on a page.
$22.99
eBook + journal
The full guide on any screen, with a companion journal to write your answers by hand.
Not available
Audiobook
We read every question and every scenario aloud. For the commute, the walk, the dishes.
Not available
Hardcoverpersonalize
The keepsake edition — sewn, ribboned, made to sit on a shelf and be returned to.
Not available
Digital Fill + membership+membership
Answer on screen. Your responses save as you go and assemble into your finished document.
$12.99
Hands-Free Interactive + membership+membership
Listen to each question and speak your answer. We capture it. You never touch a keyboard.
Not available
Everything packages
The Paperback Everything Package
[personalize]
Not available
The Hardcover Everything Package
[personalize]
Not available
The Premium Hardcover Everything Package
[personalize]
Not available
Already own this title? Add any other format from your account.
Choose your pace.
The Essential path takes you to your finished document by the questions that matter most. The Full-depth path walks every question, every scenario, every angle. Both produce the same signed document — one just goes deeper on the way there.
Essential path
Shorter sessions. The questions that go directly to the document.
Full depth
Every question. Every scenario, every angle.
Already own this title? Add any other format from your account.
Buy it for yourself.
Choose your format above.