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Champion Building - How to successfully adopt a developer tool

What's this blog post about?

Adopting a developer tool within an organization is not just a technical task, but a socio-technical challenge. The key to successful adoption lies beyond the tool itself; it’s about intentionally engaging engineers and leveraging their surrounding ecosystem for effective adoption. One of the most critical factors to getting a tool off the ground is building simultaneously: organic, real and true support from your own engineers, whilst also building a few compelling real-life use-cases. It's usually important you build this foundation before widely inviting your engineering organization to use the developer tool that you’re adopting. The steps to champion building for a developer tool look something like this: Identify internal champions, Build one or two compelling use cases, and Expand and scale.

Company
Gitpod

Date published
Nov. 16, 2023

Author(s)
Lou Bichard

Word count
1790

Hacker News points
13

Language
English


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