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Champion Building - How to successfully adopt a developer tool

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Post Details
Company
Ona
Date Published
Author
Lou Bichard
Word Count
1,790
Company Posts That Month
11
Language
English
Hacker News Points
13
Post removed?
No
Summary

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.

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