A few days ago, Tim Bray posted about how new technologies can come into a company either by the front door or the back door.
The front door would be via salesman and directives from the executive officers. Generally these will fail on some level because those who will actually be using the technology had no say in any part of the decision.
The backdoor though can work for new technologies because they will be coming into the office under the radar. Those who need to use them, just do, instead of having meeting after meeting just talking about it.
It only takes one person to bring in something new. Just start writing Python scripts for little things or maybe find a use for Groovy and before you know it, lots of folks will have a new skill.
Posted by Josh at August 29, 2004 11:41 PM | TrackBack