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5 Surprising Things I Learned Helping 300 Techies To Use AI

Shaun McGirr

09:00 - 09:45 BST Friday 6th June

Helping a handful of software professionals adopt AI in their daily work is one thing, especially when they are already experimenting “under the desk.” Scaling to 300 professionals, from developers to testers to devops and product, in different teams working for different clients, is quite another challenge!

In this session, I’ll share key lessons from our AI adoption journey at DevOn, which started in 2023. My focus will be the unexpected barriers and breakthroughs we encountered, because just like AI, we have learned much more in the tougher parts of the journey, i.e. after we turned on copilots.

I will share these lessons as five “surprises” that are not earth-shattering looking back, but should help others avoid common mistakes and misconceptions, and get to meaningful value faster. Each surprise answers one of these questions, and at least one such question should be on your mind:

1. Which software professionals adopt AI more easily?

2. How much of which data do you need for AI to work well?

3. Where in the SDLC is the most additional value created with AI?

4. Why do individual gains aggregate (or not) to team-level improvements?

5. When will it feel like a “transformation” has taken place?

Attendees will walk away with a better understanding of the key factors that make AI adoption successful, the critical challenges to anticipate, and how to engage large teams in the transition.

What you will learn

  1. Until you get beyond code completion, you will be disappointed with AI in the SDLC.
  2. You have more useful data to apply AI than you might think, especially in QA & testing.
  3. Adopting AI will feel like any other tool for some, and a huge change for others – you need to support both extremes and everyone in between!

Session Details

  • Introductory
  • 45 minutes
  • Includes 15 mins Q&A
  • Implementing/integrating AI tools
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Check out this video from Shaun McGirr to hear more about his talk, ‘5 surprising things I learned helping 300 techies to use AI’.

We look forward to welcoming you to EuroSTAR 2025.

Session Speaker

Shaun McGirr

Shaun McGirr

DevOn Software Services, UK

As DevOn’s Chief AI & Data Officer, Shaun helps customers identify realistic opportunities to apply AI and deliver value with minimal fuss, and helps 300+ developers adopt AI in their daily work, especially in testing.

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