This is my talk aimed at helping teams to grow their skills and for individual developers to reach for their next stage of career development. Given in Poland at phpconpl in 2011

1. Teach a Man
to Fish

2. Give a man a fish and you feed
him for a day
Teach a man to fish and you
feed him for a lifetime
- Chinese Proverb

3. Sustainability
and Teams

4. Skills and Aptitude
 Skills: Things you can do now
 Aptitude: Things you are capable of
 There are some things you will never do

5. Understanding Skill Sets

6. 360 Degree Feedback
 Measures skills and/or performance
 Set objectives
 Feedback from
 Managers
 Peers
 Colleagues in other areas
 Subordinates
 Anonymous results

7. Skills Analysis
 Areas and sub-areas
 Rate everyone on each area
 Create a chart

8. Skills Analysis
PHP Frontend
Syntax OOP ZF Stack JS HTML CSS
Anna 5 5 4 5 1 2 1
Billy 3 3 3 2 4 4 4
Charles 5 5 5 3 4 3 3
Diane 5 3 4 2 3 5 5
Edward 4 3 2 2 5 5 4
Average 4.4 3.8 3.6 2.8 3.4 3.8 3.4

9. Skill Gaps

10. Filling the Gap:
Recruitment

11. Cost = Time + Money
Impact = Risk x Cost

12. The Power of
Not Recruiting

13. Learning

14. Learning Resources
 Feeds/Podcasts
 Subscriptions
 Books

15. My Book: PHP Master
http://www.sitepoint.com/books/phppro1/

16. Learning Resources
 Feeds/Podcasts
 Subscriptions
 Books
 Training
 Consultancy
 Events
 Study days

17. Training Budget

18. Making the Business Case
 Spend your investment wisely
 Cost Benefit Analysis
 Return on Investment
 investment we know
 return is harder to measure

19. Sharing (The Bonus Multiplier)
 Sharing knowledge/experience brings value
 ROI is bigger
 Better team communication

20. Team Sharing Strategies
 Conference slide karaoke
 Monthly developer lunch
 Link Tuesdays
 Twitter: #linktuesday
 Link: http://www.linktuesday.com

21. Learning is a
Development Process

22. No Team?
Make One!

23. Leadership

24. Sustainable Learning

25. Now You Can Fish

26. Thanks!
http://joind.in/3924
Links: http://bit.ly/kUCR27
@lornajane
http://www.lornajane.net

27. Resources
 360 degree feedback
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/360-degree_feedback
 Risk

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_analysis_(business )
 Return on investment
 http://www.solutionmatrix.com/return-on-investment.html
 Cost-benefit analysis
 http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newTED_08.htm

28. Image Credit
http://www.flickr.com/photos/
agustinrafaelreyes/4737762656