Change Management

This book, Kill It With Fire, may be about how to manage and/or update aging software, but some of its points could be applied to more general change management.

"... The real lesson here is that modernization plans evolve as they progress. The first stage is one of evaluation. This doesn't necessarily mean you should stop everything and produce big complicated plans, but you should focus on low-hanging fruit of immediate issues with pragmatic fixes. Use these small tasks to focus your investigation of the system itself. Get to know it and its quirks. Where are your blind spots in terms of monitoring? How easy is it to change things, test them, and be confident that they will work?"