Many Hands Make for Light Work: Empower Your Coworkers to Develop...
summary
Initial ad hoc trainings overwhelm learners and die off, so the approach shifts to scaffolded contribution: stucco and plaster templating, VS Code tasks and Pester tests generate command skeletons students fill in. A temp builds an API module with many endpoints, the code lands in production, saves huge time, and a trainee replaces the maintainer. The specific claim: lightweight scaffolding plus tests and emotional-safety practices produces maintainable PowerShell contributions that actually work.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:33Who am I
- 4:24Purpose of this talk
- 6:28Initial experiences
- 8:27Rock star vs reality
- 12:07Sharing the truth
- 17:20Training
- 23:58Documentation
- 27:41Creating Safety
- 29:46Meta Skills
- 31:31Emotional Intelligence
- 33:46Components of EQ
- 37:47Where to go next
- 40:25Questions
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