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Creating a Culture of Learning Paige Watson POP QUIZ! BASELINE - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Creating a Culture of Learning Paige Watson POP QUIZ! BASELINE - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Creating a Culture of Learning Paige Watson POP QUIZ! BASELINE Raise your hand if you would consider your role as a manager of people What percent of the work week do you want your teams to spend on learning? POP QUIZ! BASELINE Raise your
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POP QUIZ!
BASELINE
What percent of the work week do you want your teams to spend on learning?
Raise your hand if you would consider your role as a manager of people
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POP QUIZ!
BASELINE
What percent of the work week do you spend learning as part of your job?
Raise your hand if you would consider your role as a non-management team member
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POP QUIZ!
BASELINE
Why the disparity?
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SIR RICHARD BRANSON
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WHY LEARN?
BENEFITS OF TEAM LEARNING
- Knowledge
- Team Emergence (Rising Tide Effect)
- Team Cohesion
- Innovation
- Increased team ownership of ideas
- Psychological Safety - It’s okay to say ‘I don’t know’
- Enjoyment of work
- Increased productivity
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HOW TO LEARN
WHAT DOESN’T WORK
- Buying books
- Must be read outside of
work hours
- Must pertain to work
- Yearly personal allowance
- Buying books
- Team Library
- Team allowance
- No restrictions on topic
- Book Clubs
- During work hours
WHAT WORKS
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HOW TO LEARN
WHAT DOESN’T WORK
- Conferences
- Company mandated
- “Report-out” learning
- Specialist Disorder
- One conference per
year.
- Conferences
- Employees choice
- Multiple people, or the
whole team
- Team budget
WHAT WORKS
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HOW TO LEARN
WHAT DOESN’T WORK
- “Brown Bag”
lunch and learns
- Topics chosen by
management
- Required attendance
- Bring your own lunch
- “Brown Bag”
lunch and learns
- Topics chosen by team
- Team members to opt-in
- Company buys lunch
- Paid time
WHAT WORKS
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HOW TO LEARN
WHAT DOESN’T WORK
- Required training
- Required
- One size fits all
- Pay based on
attendance
- “Required” training
- Team chooses
- Multiple trainings per year
- Required for whole team
- including Management,
PM/PO, QA, DEV, etc.
WHAT WORKS
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HOW TO LEARN
WHAT WORKS
- Code Katas
- Focused Learning of Software Development
- Focus on one topic a session
- Report Learning/Retrospective
- Lab Time
- A few of hours a week
- Group learning
- Team learns in small groups
- Report Learning/Retrospective
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HOW TO LEARN
WHAT WORKS
- Experiment
- Time boxed, but extendable
- Team decision
- Report Learning/Retrospective
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CASE STUDY
PREMERA BLUE CROSS
- 40+ person team
- “Premera Listens” survey engine
- Mobile Apps - iOS & Android (and UWP)
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CASE STUDY
PREMERA BLUE CROSS
Weekly Code Katas FizzBuzz Focused Practice Developers, QA, DBAs, Product Owners
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CASE STUDY
PREMERA BLUE CROSS
Weekly Lab Time Open Space marketplace 3 hours to Learn, followed by Retrospective
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NOW THE HOW
WHERE DO WE START?
- Experiment
- Start date - end date
- Team learns together
- NO PRODUCTION WORK
- Learning time must be during work hours
- Evaluate learning
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NOW THE HOW
WHERE DO WE START?
- Code Katas
- One Hour (2.5%)
- Focus on single learning outcome
- The Problem Is The Lie!
- Whole Team Participation
- Evaluate learning
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NOW THE HOW
WHERE DO WE START?
- Book Club
- Meet during work hours
- Team chooses the book
- Company buys the book
- Evaluate learning
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PICK MY BRAIN
QUESTIONS?
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ABOUT ME
PAIGE WATSON
Quality Code Practice Evangelist @PaigeIsXP paige.watson@outlook.com
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