The most positive change I've seen happen in an organization is through skunkworks projects, i.e. work you don't tell your boss about.
Too much technical debt, but the boss doesn't want to refactor? Refactor any code you were touching anyway.
Build process too complicated and brittle? Write build scripts, add error checking, and make other necessary changes to fix the problem.
My past bosses never asked "Where did you find the time to do that?" even if they even noticed that anything happened at all.
At one company I worked, we had no build server. The boss didn't see the need for it so he never approved it, but he also didn't reject it once we set it up.
Any organizational change that requires other to change their behavior or their opinions? It is very difficult to change. The only success I've had is by mentioning an idea multiple times and eventually my boss started thinking it was his idea.
Too much technical debt, but the boss doesn't want to refactor? Refactor any code you were touching anyway.
Build process too complicated and brittle? Write build scripts, add error checking, and make other necessary changes to fix the problem.
My past bosses never asked "Where did you find the time to do that?" even if they even noticed that anything happened at all.
At one company I worked, we had no build server. The boss didn't see the need for it so he never approved it, but he also didn't reject it once we set it up.
Any organizational change that requires other to change their behavior or their opinions? It is very difficult to change. The only success I've had is by mentioning an idea multiple times and eventually my boss started thinking it was his idea.