Thank you for the input! I like the idea of getting their hands dirty, I think that will help them get a feel for how it works. Also focusing on their issues will be a great angle to the presentation.
Teresa listed the key point. The next step would be to question if they're real... how do you know those are real? Have you actually seen examples where those non-engineers wanted to, say, undo changes, or have different people work on the same thing, and so on?
Sometimes even providing examples may not be enough, because those people have probably figured out a way to work around those problems. The question then becomes: why is version control a better solution than whatever else they currently use to manage that issue?
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Thank you for the input! I like the idea of getting their hands dirty, I think that will help them get a feel for how it works. Also focusing on their issues will be a great angle to the presentation.
Your post was in Jan, so how did it go?
Teresa listed the key point. The next step would be to question if they're real... how do you know those are real? Have you actually seen examples where those non-engineers wanted to, say, undo changes, or have different people work on the same thing, and so on?
Sometimes even providing examples may not be enough, because those people have probably figured out a way to work around those problems. The question then becomes: why is version control a better solution than whatever else they currently use to manage that issue?