Many of these presentations come across as proselytizing. It's an immediate turn-off to some developers and most all managers. The proselytizer claims to know or be able to understand things that others on the team cannot. It's condescending. You wouldn't say to a co-worker... "I understand why we should use X, you do not, so I'm going to enlighten you and explain this to you in a way that you can understand and see the benefits of."
The best way to gain traction and to get others to use your favorite tools is to write code and implement projects on time and under budget that are reliable and easy to maintain. If you do that, then the tools that you use will be in demand. Others will want to use them and they will speak for themselves.
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Many of these presentations come across as proselytizing. It's an immediate turn-off to some developers and most all managers. The proselytizer claims to know or be able to understand things that others on the team cannot. It's condescending. You wouldn't say to a co-worker... "I understand why we should use X, you do not, so I'm going to enlighten you and explain this to you in a way that you can understand and see the benefits of."
The best way to gain traction and to get others to use your favorite tools is to write code and implement projects on time and under budget that are reliable and easy to maintain. If you do that, then the tools that you use will be in demand. Others will want to use them and they will speak for themselves.