Building kick-ass internal education programs (for large and small budgets)
summary
Claim: internal education is easy and cheap when focused on concrete formats and measurable outcomes. Run lightning talks before lunch (30–60 minutes) with food to boost attendance, try mob refactors and pair programming using the “sneaky monitor” or lunchroom pairing to seed habit change, note an intern program that grew from 3 to 17 participants, and assign an onboarding buddy halves ramp time (from ~6 months to ~3). Dedicated trainers only make sense at much larger scale; measure attendance and time-to-productivity.
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chapters (18)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:58Getting your attention
- 2:45Internal education is easy
- 3:50Meet Chuck
- 6:23Learning curve
- 7:59Sharing success
- 9:17Whats next
- 10:18Learning space
- 11:30You can do it
- 13:25Inspiration
- 14:20Giving of themselves
- 15:28Nerd sniping
- 16:28Creating a space conducive to learning
- 18:44Mob refactoring
- 19:45Pair programming
- 22:48Workshops
- 26:00Onboarding Buddy
- 27:21Would you recommend Onboarding Buddy
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