Learn about Redgate's journey so far with learning and development at Redgate. We’ve tried golden tickets, 10% time, down tools weeks, katas and guilds - and still something was missing. We’ll tell you about how our efforts brought us to curating and organising our own product development conference and what happened as a result.
3. What we’ll be talking about
• Why Learning & Development is important
• How you create a learning culture
• What we have tried to encourage Learning &
Development
• Where we felt we were missing something and
what we did
46. • Involve EVERYONE!
• Encourage more presenters!
• Do it as a full-day!
• Do it off site!
• Do it in a fighter jet museum!
• All wear silly hats and debate OKRs!
That was great, why don’t we…
49. Our aims for Level Up 2018
• Get people excited about Learning and
Development
• Encourage people to share their skills & experience
• Cross-pollination of techniques and ideas
• Explore issues and decide next steps
60. Our aims for Level Up 2018
• Get people excited about Learning and Development
• Encourage people to share their skills & experience
• Cross-pollination of techniques and ideas
• Explore issues and decide next steps
63. Cross-pollination of techniques and ideas
Good API design and reusable components are key to quality and speed
A drive towards .NET Standard
Desire and motivation to improve our OKR process
Useful new methods for note taking during research calls
Keen interest from engineers around cloud-readiness
We should reinvigorate our Guilds
Desire to build leadership behaviours key for our situation
Insight into the Tech Lead role and a desire to explore it as a career path
Systems Thinking could be a useful tool for the division
Experience Mapping is something to try with our teams
Electron looks like a great technology we should use more widely
65. Explore issues and decide next steps
OKRsAuto
Update
Systems
Thinking
Agile
Lean
67. Summary
• Learning and development is hugely important
• Leadership creates the conditions for learning culture to emerge
• Making time, establishing practices and setting direction are necessary
but not sufficient
• Learning and development should be a team sport
• Transparency and lowering barrier to sharing has allowed us to level-up
• Arranging a conference is hard work but if we can do it, pretty much
anyone can