“Nobody lets me do anything around here!”, how many times have you heard this sentence? We all have great ideas, from integrating a new React library, to rewriting our entire codebase in Go. But the road to bring these ideas to fruition, is… well… not that simple. And sometimes even frustrating.

In this talk I’ll share a few stories of success and failure in promoting some of my crazy ideas. From each story there are lessons and skills to be learned that helped me to make my ideas to reality. And finally, I’ll share how we took these lessons to create a scalable process to enable our developers to incubate and promote their ideas.