Teaching New Tricks – How to enhance the skills of experienced developers
summary
Consultancy experience shows concrete ways to upskill seasoned devs: make pair programming the default to reveal hidden workflows and cut code-review overhead; run short workshops built from online tutorials (example: volunteering at a ClojureBridge day doubles learning speed compared to solo study); give people regular deep dive time (half‑day weekly) to explore tech; try mob programming for new features—throughput stays similar while knowledge spreads; insist on empathy, safe retros with actions, jargon-free explanations and public questioning to stop making colleagues feel stupid.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Start
- 0:10Teaching New Tricks
- 2:05Principles
- 8:42Strategies
- 13:33The Workshop
- 19:06Learn by Teaching
- 31:16Safety & Security
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