FUD in IT projectsRadosław Ganczarek

What is FUD?

● FUD = fear, uncertainty, doubt● tactic used in propaganda● makes people think bad of things they don’t

even know● makes people feal undoubt that what they

know about something is true

Example time!

What about IT projects?

React.js case

The horrible truth

We didn’t fall to any propaganda. We’ve created the FUD ourselves.

Root causes

● Early judging (I’ve saw first page of the tutorial. It’s going to be horrible!)

● Afraid of leaving comfort zone (Why can’t we just use plain JS? We don’t need to learn another language!)

● Blind following one solution (I KNOW it’s going to suck! It’s not Django!)

Results

Instead of this:

Results

You’ve got this:

How to prevent?

How to prevent?

What to do?

After all...

Thank you!