Employee Jedi Training: Teaching Software DevOps like Force Powers
Recently, new people have joined Abstract Assembly. I’m not going to lie… I’m not sure how to handle this new influx of teammates.
Do they belong on the product or business sub-team, or both? Should we assign them to one or should we let them explore and choose for themselves? Would it be best to assign them to different projects based on their skills or on a joint project?
These are all questions I’ve decided to put aside for later. Perhaps they will answer themselves given enough time. The last thing I want to do is to micro-manage.
Instead, we made Jedi-themed training modules.
Since the training gets more and more in-depth into product-dev, I’m trying to balance it out with the joy of eventually becoming a Jedi Master.
Padawan Training is an intro to our agile development practices. You’ll learn how we coordinate as a modern software dev-ops team while building your own web application — highly sought-after skills for both coders and business-minded people.
Knight Training is all about improving what you can do given more resources. For example, we’ll show you how to make a better backend and how to make REST APIs on remote machine instances. Here, you get to really expand the breadth of your abilities (i.e. force powers).
Lastly, Master Training is at the frontier of our collective knowledge as a team. Right now, these topics include how to use Deep Learning to teach our AI how to make satellite designs and how to improve those models based on what we’ve learned so far. It’s heavily research-oriented, but it’s where all the cool stuff happens.
Each of the training modules we have are designed to teach a new skill while also working on much-needed projects for our company.
At the end of the day, my goal for employee training will always be to show people new powers and abilities to wield not just for us, but for all the great things they’ll accomplish down the road.
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