Embrace the Pitfalls - Our Stop Start Journey to Change

Explore a developer's journey through the challenges of implementing modern work practices in this PHP UK Conference talk. Learn from Stacy Cashmore's experiences as she shares the pitfalls encountered and lessons learned while trying to introduce change in organizations resistant to new methodologies. Discover insights on dealing with slow-paced transformations, overcoming resistance, and finding balance between enthusiasm for progress and the realities of organizational inertia. Gain practical advice on topics such as effective testing strategies, refactoring techniques, trunk-based development, and improving automation processes. Understand the importance of patience, persistence, and collaboration when driving change, and find inspiration to navigate your own path towards more efficient and responsive development practices.

Intro
Making Mistakes
Too much tooling
No magic solutions
Stacy Cashmore
Learning from Mistakes
The Problem
Test More
Test Everything
Looking From a Different Angle
Unit Testing
Refactoring
Reordering
Old ways of working
Trunkbased development
Retrospective
Unit Tests
Skipping Tests
Cutting Corners
Mortgage Software
Explosion
CI Task Force
Release Flow
The Email
Drinking Coffee
Why Couldnt I Have Got This
How Can We Change Our Process
Better Automation Testing
Giving Feedback
Rant Email
Experimenting
Sharing
Let your enthusiasm burn
Work with them
Dont get discouraged
Dont get frustrated
Take lessons away