Oh yeah heaps of people so won't be any issues there. On 9 Feb 2016 18:20, "Andrew Coates (DX AUSTRALIA)" < andrew.coa...@microsoft.com> wrote:
> 7’s probably at the bottom end of enough for critical mass. You don’t need > many people to be on leave, sick or working on that urgent project before > someone’s doing a presentation they spent 6 hours of their own time > prepping for to 2 or 3 people. > > > > Is there anyone else in the org you could rope in? Testers, **gasp** > designers? Etc? > > > > Andrew Coates, ME, MCPD, MCSD MCTS, Developer Evangelist, Microsoft, 1 > Epping Road, NORTH RYDE NSW 2113 > Ph: +61 (2) 9870 2719 • Mob +61 (416) 134 993 • Fax: +61 (2) 9870 2400 • > http://blogs.msdn.com/acoat > > > > *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: > ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Dave Walker > *Sent:* Tuesday, 9 February 2016 4:16 PM > *To:* ozDotNet <ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com> > *Subject:* RE: [OT] Internal Developer Training > > > > Cheers this looks awesome! Team is 7 people so not small. > > On 9 Feb 2016 17:22, "Andrew Coates (DX AUSTRALIA)" < > andrew.coa...@microsoft.com> wrote: > > Hi Dave, > > > > How big is your team? > > > > One of the things we’ve seen work well is to have a regular “internal user > group” every fortnight, put 2 hours aside over lunch or towards the end of > the day, bring in pizza, and have someone from your team do a general > technical presentation (45-60 min). Then have someone present a technical > overview of their project (or part thereof). > > > > For example: > > > > *Time* > > *Topic* > > *Presenter* > > 2:00-2:15 > > Welcome, Q&A > > Group Leader > > 2:15-3:15 > > Technical Presentation > (e.g. “Using Windows Communication Foundation to Interface with SAP”) > > Developer/Architect from within organisation > > 3:15-3:30 > > Break > > All > > 3:30-4:00 > > Project Presentation > (e.g. “Project Blackcombe: Challenges, Solutions and Status”) > > Project Blackcombe lead developer > > 4:00-5:00 > > Drinks/Networking > > All > > > > Over 6 meetings you could do something like this: > > > > *Technology Session* > > *Internal Session* > > Month 1 > > Customising Office with Add-ins > > Exposing our CRM information inside the firewall > > Month 2 > > jQuery integration in VS2015 > > How we updated our external site to use Bootstrap > > Month 3 > > Branching and Merging – a primer > > Project “Discovery”’s use of TFS for source control > > Month 4 > > Mobile Client Development Smackdown – Native vs Xamarin vs Cordova vs HTML5 > > Deploying our new ERP solution > > Month 5 > > Using geographic data in SQL2014 > > Geolocating our customers > > Month 6 > > Introduction to Aspect Oriented Programming > > Adding unit tests to the project “Conquistador” code base > > > > Make a bit of a big deal about the group. Encourage people to present > (give them a speaker shirt or something). Get evals at the end of each > session. Give the top speaker for the year a trip to Ignite, or something. > Note that technical presentations don’t have to be original – there are > heaps of repositories of up-to-date technical presentations complete with > presenter notes, demo scripts and so on. > > > > Giving a developer a presentation to deliver means that they’ll go away > and play with the tech so they can at least run the demos. It gives them a > bunch of soft skills as well, and it makes them the internal “expert” in > that thing. People will ask them questions about it and that will kick off > the cycle of discovery for them. They’ll tend to look up the answer to > those questions if they don’t already know. > > > > Note that you’ll need an exec sponsor for this – taking the team off the > tools for a couple of hours (or 3) a month is a commitment they’ll need to > support. > > > > This works even better if it’s not just your team – cross-pollination and > emergence of technical centres of excellence within the organisation are > very desirable things. > > > > Happy to chat more either here or offline if you like. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Coatsy. > > > > Andrew Coates, ME, MCPD, MCSD MCTS, Developer Evangelist, Microsoft, 1 > Epping Road, NORTH RYDE NSW 2113 > Ph: +61 (2) 9870 2719 • Mob +61 (416) 134 993 • Fax: +61 (2) 9870 2400 • > http://blogs.msdn.com/acoat > <https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3a%2f%2fblogs.msdn.com%2facoat&data=01%7c01%7cACOAT%40064d.mgd.microsoft.com%7c093dbbbc4702488bdb5608d331101198%7c72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7c1&sdata=v6%2f09YVCpoce37I3OC8T%2bo7GmUAmwJ5lFB1QVfuVhFg%3d> > > > > *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: > ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Dave Walker > *Sent:* Tuesday, 9 February 2016 1:01 PM > *To:* ozDotNet <ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com> > *Subject:* [OT] Internal Developer Training > > > > Hi all, > > > > I've recently taken over a new team which has a wide variety of technical > skill from complete beginner to senior developer. Talking to the team I've > found that especially their C# skillsets are limited and can be greatly > improved. So far we've organised for everyone to have a pluralsight account > and encouragement is given to spend work time watching videos however it > feels a little bit disconnected. I'd really like to have a more formal > ongoing set of training but as it stands I have no experience implementing > this. > > > > There is limited budget so can't just send everyone off on a training > course and not really looking for an overnight fix but more of a program > that improves different skills over time to a certain level. > > > > My thoughts for now were to mix between: > > * Book club - everyone reads a chapter of 'Clean code' and we gather > weekly to discuss it > > * Pluralsight club - same but with a pluralsight video > > * One on one peer programming where the more senior members help the less > experienced > > * Demo sessions/lectures by more experienced developers from outside the > team > > > > Has anyone else ever tried to take on something like this? If so how did > you go about it and what advice can you give about this? > > > > Cheers, > > Dave > >
