Dealing with the Blast Radius - Impact Analysis

Ever shipped a "small change" that broke half the system? Or this tiny change that touched more systems than anyone would think humanly possible? Hours of debugging, analyzing dependencies, managing not-exactly-happy stakeholders only to realize that all of this could have been avoided by putting a little bit more effort before making the change! And then, what about security and the blast radius of a breach?

Ever shipped a "small change" that broke half the system? Or this tiny change that touched more systems than anyone would think humanly possible? Hours of debugging, analyzing dependencies, managing not-exactly-happy stakeholders only to realize that all of this could have been avoided by putting a little bit more effort before making the change! And then, what about security and the blast radius of a breach?

If you haven't experienced those things, you must be either extremely lucky or new on the job - either way, this live stream will be also for you! In this episode we’ll be taking a deep dive into Impact Analysis - a powerful discipline that can save a lot of time and stress if done in the right time and stage of a project, and how it can help stop things from happening!

In this episode of Loosely Coupled we’re joined by Frédérique Mounier, a former communications manager that switched to IT, and now works as a Salesforce Solution Architect and a member of The Adecco Group Tech Design Authority! She’ll be our guide on navigating the potential blast radius and a structured approach to dealing with it, hopefully before it swoops up half of the IT landscape!

Together we’ll explore:

What is impact analysis and why it matters,

What problems we can solve with it,

How to approach it without making it a document dense nightmare,

When should it be done,

Whether you're a developer, tech lead, or project manager, you'll leave with a practical framework you can apply the next day.