Yevgen Nebesov is a systems architect based in Bruchsal, Germany. He provides consultancy services to companies across various sectors, including railways, defence, logistics, medical devices, and retail. His expertise spans software architecture, organization design, team leadership, and business analysis.

His consultancy focuses primarily on managing the complexity arising from intertwined uncertainties across technical, operational, and political domains within organizations.

Yevgen is the author of two practical frameworks:

“Sociotechnical Engineering” – an approach that applies classical Systems Engineering principles, such as requirements elicitation and requirements-driven design, to sociotechnical systems, including software development projects.

“The Architecture of Power” – a framework for structural change designed for people with or without formal authority.

LOCATION: Basel
ROOM: Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz, Campus Dreispitz, Dornacherstrasse 394, Basel, Travel instructions
KEYWORDS: Lessons learned, Teamwork

SPEAKER: Yevgen Nebesov   COMPANY: Self-employed sociotechnical engineer

By the time an external consultant arrives to redesign your development organization with the latest methods and frameworks, a decisive battle has already been won: someone has secured the mandate to change it.

But what if you are the software engineer who sees what could work better, yet cannot redraw teams, redirect budgets, or tell others how to work?

This talk introduces «The Architecture of Power» as a practical way to understand and change the power arrangements around you. The Power Loop explains how those arrangements reproduce outcomes. The Power Canvas helps you map the relationships keeping a situation in place. Power tactics connect diagnosis to action: structural tactics change a specific condition, while activation tactics mobilize the participation it requires.

Through a worked software-team case, we follow an engineer from a stalled improvement proposal to a move they can initiate. You will learn how to look beyond the quality of your solution, identify an intervention point within your reach, and begin changing what makes improvement possible from the position you actually hold.

LANGUAGE: Talk: en / Slides: en

Yevgen Nebesov is a systems architect based in Bruchsal, Germany. He provides consultancy services to companies across various sectors, including railways, defence, logistics, medical devices, and retail. His expertise spans software architecture, organization design, team leadership, and business analysis.

His consultancy focuses primarily on managing the complexity arising from intertwined uncertainties across technical, operational, and political domains within organizations.

Yevgen is the author of two practical frameworks:

“Sociotechnical Engineering” – an approach that applies classical Systems Engineering principles, such as requirements elicitation and requirements-driven design, to sociotechnical systems, including software development projects.

“The Architecture of Power” – a framework for structural change designed for people with or without formal authority.

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