Developing Devopsers
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Claims a repeatable onboarding recipe: write an 90 day written plan, teach concrete skills (Terraform, Django, CI, Kubernetes), and script the first two weeks into one to two day tasks so mentors can give fast feedback. Process measures success by checked skills, month-by-month milestones and daily check-ins for weeks 1–3. Anecdote: first PR gets revised until perfect and thereafter stays perfect, showing the habit-building approach actually produces consistent, higher-quality contributions.
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chapters (20)
- 0:00Intro
- 2:04Good mentorship can be operationalized
- 2:53X Long-term mentorship
- 3:22Operationalization - the process of strictly defining variables into measurable factors. The process defines fuzzy concepts and allows them to be measured, empirically and quantitatively.
- 3:40Operationalization - Success stops being random
- 4:19Create an opinionated process
- 4:41Build clear habits
- 5:26Spend time teaching skills
- 6:07Written down plan for the first 90 days of your mentee's time
- 9:18Write down a list of skills
- 12:03Write down a month-by-month plan
- 14:28Create a script for the first-2 weeks
- 14:40Breadth + Feedback
- 17:46Get them successful ASAP
- 18:18Have high standards
- 20:55Check-in Frequently
- 23:18Steps
- 23:30Take a ranging shot
- 24:02Decide on what they should learn
- 24:17Walk along the path to an answer
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