Prognosis
First the good news: it is extremely easy to change the Uninformed to another one of the resistance patterns. All you have to do is tell them about it—BOOM, they’re no longer uninformed. The bad news: they are more likely to become one of the other skeptic patterns than they are to become converted.
This is why I wouldn’t just rely on sitting them down and giving them “the talk” about version control or unit testing. You need to use countering techniques, especially Demonstrate the Technique, to show these individuals not just the what of the technique but the why.
Footnotes
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A centralized version control system. For more information, see Pragmatic Version Control using Subversion, 2nd Edition [Mas06]. |
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