How to convince your team or company to use Python? 🖥🐍

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how can I convince people that Python is the right choice for our needs so this is a question that I got over email from a debater auric newsletter reader and I want to share some of my thoughts in this video so this is written from the perspective of someone who's trying to convince their company their team to use Python because they love Python themselves and now they want to get their team their whole company on board the Python train so I think the answer here heavily depends on how much influence do you have in the organization right like are you someone that carries a lot of weight that people trust and that people lean on for advice then you're certainly gonna have you know an easier time convincing people to go with Python I mean if you own the company or if you're the CTO then you're gonna have a really really easy time because you're just gonna tell everyone what to do and that might not be the best strategy to get the buy-in but you know it's it's gonna that's gonna influence kind of the strategy that you want to apply there so for my answer I'm gonna assume that you know you're you're kind of in an established position out of competent a company you're working with a team and you really love Python you want to get them on board the Python train but you don't really have the power to you know pull rank on on everyone else and just kind of steer a ship and be like yeah we're doing Python now I'm also not saying that that's what you should be doing if you can do this because people are gonna are not gonna like that and you know it's not not gonna be a great result so how do you build that buy-in from from people how do you get people to consider Python for their programming work and I think in order to do that successfully essentially you have to become an advocate for Python within your company you know you have to go out of your way to show people what what nice like how nice the language is and how much you enjoy working with it and maybe how much they would enjoy working with the language and personally I found a great way to do that is to to see if you can give presentations in front of the the whole engineering team or parts of the engineering team or just for you team you know if you can go out and show people as part of a workshop or just you know it's part of a 10 or 20 minute presentation what you've built with Python and how Python is a really nice and enjoyable language then I think that's that's gonna help you build up that momentum and you know I wouldn't try and sell the language too hard because if well if you're not in a management position or if you're not within the company leadership people might not appreciate if you're you know trying to get everyone to write Python and the company may be has decided to do to do Java primarily right if their Java shop it'd be very hard to kind of move them away from from that mindset and for good reason right it's often very hard to kind of change the whole company mindset and switch languages therefore for everyone so you have to build that change slowly and kind of feel what what the response is you know how do people react to this and if things go well and you keep doing this over time then maybe you can get more and more people convinced to try out Python and do a little bit of programming and Python on their own and I think this is how you build up this momentum over time and this is how you kind of rolled a snowball up the hill and then eventually if you get enough people on board there maybe you can consider you know Python for a small project like maybe building some tool in Python and then showing that it was a good experience that people enjoyed it that it was a more productive experience and that it could save the company money by making everyone more productive and I think if you can demonstrate that outcome you know this is really a show don't tell moment if you can demonstrate that outcome then it will be easier to help the company make the shift to a more modern programming language like Python so these are some of the strategies you can apply there if this answer was helpful and you'd like to get your own question answered then just leave a comment below here in YouTube and I'll try and tackle a a question in a new video by the way I'm trying to figure out my lighting setup here I'm almost getting blinded because now I have this little lamp above the camera it's like right into my face I'm trying to get away from sort of the zombie look or kind of the two-faced look with a lot of shadow on my face in these videos so if you've got any tips for me then I'd be happy to hear your thoughts and how to improve that as well all right take care and happy Pythian e