Notes: Level Up: Developing Developers
July 5, 2019•164 words
In Level Up: Developing Developers Melinda Seckington from FutureLearn discusses what we can learn from gaming to help support our devlopers in learning and development.
Checkout the video here: https://youtu.be/18MI6n9hFDI
Notes
- Don’t overload new starters
- Trello onboarding board
- Support and guide new starters
- Provide a mentor
- Make it clear what people should focus on
- Goal setting
- Learning record
- Give people direct and timely feedback
- Provide space to learn and reflect from the past
- Provide opportunities to apply new skills
- We need to be the ones to find and offer opportunities for people to spend their training budget
- Acknowledge peoples growth
- Expose basic competencies and how they are used
- How are values linked to role?
- Allow people to choose their own path
- Generalise and specialise - frontend/backend - acknowledge skills not covered by labels
- Visualise what progression looks like