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TWG EDU
Alignment with TWG Vision
SURVEY THEMES
What is professional development, to us?
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Keeping up with a rapidly-changing industry
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Honing existing skills
- Developing new ones, expanding roles
SURVEY THEMES
What additional skills could we develop?
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Public speaking
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Technical skills (JS, mobile dev, front-end dev)
- Design
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Public speaking
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Technical skills (JS, mobile dev, front-end dev)
- Design
SURVEY THEMES
What would help develop your skillsets?
- Education allowance
- Library
- Internal opportunities for practice & experimentation
- Mentoring
What would help develop your skillsets?
- Education allowance
- Library
- Internal opportunities for practice & experimentation
- Mentoring
INTRODUCING...
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VISION
To develop the best talent-grooming engine in the tech world.
MISSION
- Iteratively develop an career development program that aligns individual and company goals
- Facilitate rich learning experiences that strengthen relationships and culture
- Come up with ever-improving ways to grow the talent of our team
- Develop craftsmanship and leadership:
"We create great software."- "We develop craftspeople who create great software."
- Establish TWG as a thought-leader across different tech disciplines
- Empower TWG to deliver increasingly more value in the services we provide
Rationale
By developing a more formal education and career development, we will:
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Craft a distinct culture around learning, improvement and knowledge transfer
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Enable our team to keep up to date with a rapidly changing industry, honing existing skills and also developing new ones
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Incentivize and empower team members to direct their own career development
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Build a formidable library of physical and digital resources and services
- Develop craftsmanship: “We develop crafts(wo)men who create great software”
Rationale
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Align the career goals of team members with client work
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Create other in-house opportunities for practice, experimentation and collaboration, that might otherwise not be possible with client work
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Use team-wide experimentation and collaboration exercises to help solve company and bizdev challenges
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Create some kind of standardization around the skill development of different roles
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Work with employees to set realistic goals and help achieve ‘em (with accountability)
- Nurture helpful, communicative, learning-based relationships within the company
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Align the career goals of team members with client work
-
Create other in-house opportunities for practice, experimentation and collaboration, that might otherwise not be possible with client work
-
Use team-wide experimentation and collaboration exercises to help solve company and bizdev challenges
-
Create some kind of standardization around the skill development of different roles
-
Work with employees to set realistic goals and help achieve ‘em (with accountability)
- Nurture helpful, communicative, learning-based relationships within the company
Rationale
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Improve staff morale, loyalty and retention (“My company supports my long-term goals.”)
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Help inform individual performance reviews with more detailed skill development histories
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Promote our company’s reputation as a powerful talent-grooming engine
- Increase our company’s presence and thought leadership at industry events
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Improve staff morale, loyalty and retention (“My company supports my long-term goals.”)
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Help inform individual performance reviews with more detailed skill development histories
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Promote our company’s reputation as a powerful talent-grooming engine
- Increase our company’s presence and thought leadership at industry events
SURVEY THEMES
What would help develop your skillsets?
- Education allowance
- Library
- Internal opportunities for practice & experimentation
- Mentoring
What would help develop your skillsets?
- Education allowance
- Library
- Internal opportunities for practice & experimentation
- Mentoring
STRATEGY
- Iterative program development
- Education allowance
- Library
- Internal opportunities for practice & experimentation
- Mentoring
- Iterative program development
- Education allowance
- Library
- Internal opportunities for practice & experimentation
- Mentoring
EDUCATION ALLOWANCE
Anything < $100 total is cool and at your reasonable discretion
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Check if anyone has it
- No? Get it by filling out the purchasing order form on the wiki
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Check if it exists
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Ask if anyone is interested
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Get it, log it (in PMS and wiki), share it
Night/online courses:
Half the cost of University courses for seniors, case-by-case for Intermediate and Juniors. Ask.
Conferences:
Read the policy and fill out the form on the wiki
Attending: Seniors are covered to at least 1 event/conference per year.
Intermediates and Juniors, case by case.
If you’re presenting: you get paid to prepare and be there.
Full details on conference policy on https://sites.google.com/a/theworkinggroup.ca/wiki/events
Resources are kept within TWG physical/digital library
You should share what you’ve learned at a demo or in a blogpost
Education allowance manifesto:
For a book: You wouldn’t be embarrassed to have this on your desk
- It helps you do your job better, or faster
EDUCATION ALLOWANCE
For recurring/group memberships:
- Check if it exists
- Ask if anyone is interested
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Get it, log it (in PMS and wiki), share it
Night/online courses:
- Half the cost of University courses for seniors
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Case-by-case for Intermediate and Juniors. Ask.
Conferences:
Read the policy and fill out the form on the wiki
Attending: Seniors are covered to at least 1 event/conference per year.
Intermediates and Juniors, case by case.
If you’re presenting: you get paid to prepare and be there.
Full details on conference policy on https://sites.google.com/a/theworkinggroup.ca/wiki/events
Resources are kept within TWG physical/digital library
You should share what you’ve learned at a demo or in a blogpost
Education allowance manifesto:
For a book: You wouldn’t be embarrassed to have this on your desk
- It helps you do your job better, or faster
- Check if it exists
- Ask if anyone is interested
-
Get it, log it (in PMS and wiki), share it
- Half the cost of University courses for seniors
-
Case-by-case for Intermediate and Juniors. Ask.
Intermediates and Juniors, case by case.
If you’re presenting: you get paid to prepare and be there.
Full details on conference policy on https://sites.google.com/a/theworkinggroup.ca/wiki/events
Resources are kept within TWG physical/digital library
You should share what you’ve learned at a demo or in a blogpost
Education allowance manifesto:
For a book: You wouldn’t be embarrassed to have this on your desk
- It helps you do your job better, or faster
SURVEY THEMES
What would help develop your skillsets?
- Education allowance
- Library
- Internal opportunities for practice & experimentation
- Mentoring
What would help develop your skillsets?
- Education allowance
- Library
- Internal opportunities for practice & experimentation
- Mentoring
STRATEGY
- Iterative program development
- Education allowance
- Library
- Internal opportunities for practice & experimentation
- Mentoring
- Iterative program development
- Education allowance
- Library
- Internal opportunities for practice & experimentation
- Mentoring
EDUCATION ALLOWANCE
EDUCATION ALLOWANCE
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Check if it exists
-
Ask if anyone is interested
-
Get it, log it (in PMS and wiki), share it
Night/online courses:
- Half the cost of University courses for seniors
-
Case-by-case for Intermediate and Juniors. Ask.
Conferences:
Read the policy and fill out the form on the wiki
Attending: Seniors are covered to at least 1 event/conference per year.
Intermediates and Juniors, case by case.
If you’re presenting: you get paid to prepare and be there.
Full details on conference policy on https://sites.google.com/a/theworkinggroup.ca/wiki/events
Resources are kept within TWG physical/digital library
You should share what you’ve learned at a demo or in a blogpost
Education allowance manifesto:
For a book: You wouldn’t be embarrassed to have this on your desk
- It helps you do your job better, or faster
-
Check if it exists
-
Ask if anyone is interested
-
Get it, log it (in PMS and wiki), share it
- Half the cost of University courses for seniors
-
Case-by-case for Intermediate and Juniors. Ask.
Intermediates and Juniors, case by case.
If you’re presenting: you get paid to prepare and be there.
Full details on conference policy on https://sites.google.com/a/theworkinggroup.ca/wiki/events
Resources are kept within TWG physical/digital library
You should share what you’ve learned at a demo or in a blogpost
Education allowance manifesto:
For a book: You wouldn’t be embarrassed to have this on your desk
- It helps you do your job better, or faster
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Library
Internal opportunities for practice and experimentation
KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER
Library
Library in the cloud (https://sites.google.com/a/theworkinggroup.ca/wiki/library)
E-books, videos, pdfs, screencasts, audio books; organized by Topic
Wiki for existing memberships to sites/services
Offline library: books are in the white shelf
Internal opportunities for practice and experimentation
hackathon
MOOC groups
KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER
Friday demos / blogposts
MENTORSHIP
Skill development roadmaps
Took a first pass at most of the roles at TWG (thanks to the folks who helped)
Scott/Chris M. have created a 2.0 version. We want all roles to get to this, eventually.
With that in mind, we will use the “Developer” role as the first test of a mentorship program
Learning with Professor Tadman
Scott will spend 1.5 hours/day mentoring devs
Use skill development roadmaps to help guide the process and find areas to focus on
Apprentices will go through a 3-month primer
More class-style
Project-based learning
Juniors will work with Scott, too
Get help on production problems
Production pairing
Use the learnings from the first
GOALS over next 3 months
Goals for TWG EDU’s first 3 months:
Spread the word about our new education policy
Encourage and track purchases of resources, courses, conferences, etc.
Build (and build up) the TWG Library
Implementing (and learning from) a mentorship program for apprentices and junior developers
1-3 MOOC Groups running on evenings (and finishing the courses!)
Run 1 hackathon and have some new tools to show for it
More “What I learned/Accountability” demos on Friday from TWG EDU activities (knowledge-transfer)
Develop 2.0 versions of skill development roadmaps for all roles at TWG
Gather feedback about TWG EDU throughout
Set up an EDU section in the wiki
Create a central EDU calendar with all education/MOOC events
BEnEFITS
Benefit:
Onboarding and team skill growth
TWG reputation & recruitment
Development of technology for internal use or bizdev initiatives
Staff morale
Staff retention, long-term thinking
Knowledge retention and transfer
Strong relationships within the company
Better sense of company-wide strengths & weaknesses
Better informed performance evaluations
TEAM
- Shiera
- Peter Sobot
- Irfan
- Dom
- Chris
- Scott
- Amber
Questions/comments/feedback/ideas
Approach any of us
or email edu@twg.ca
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TWG EDU
By Irfan Pirbhai
