Introducing Change (from Ruby to Clojure)

This talk is about the move from Ruby to Clojure in a team of five developers running three Ruby apps in production. We had slow tests, flow, state and view logic braided together, and a newly hired designer blocked by developers. Most of the talk is about the people:

Understand interests before proposing solutions.
Provide safety for those who fear change: prototypes, trial periods, fallback solutions.
Embrace the skeptics, and don’t fear feedback.
Empower people and ask for help, so they become more independent.
Expect struggles: impostor syndrome and pressure.

Material: ruby_to_clojure