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DevCoach - Solid Foundations for the New Wave of Software Developers
- 1. Solid Foundations for the New Wave of Software Developers Story of DevCoach
- 2. Agenda • Why • What • How • Helping others
- 3. Why • Hello… Flash? • Web Development • CMS vs. Actual Development • iQuest
- 4. Why
- 5. Why • Hello Flash? • Web Development • CMS vs. Actual Development • iQuest • Helping others learn • Internships • Feedback
- 6. What DEVCOACH Build and enhance your software development skills
- 7. What • DevCoach • Learning framework • Beginner programmers • Oct 2017
- 8. How 1. Free Hands-On Practice • 1 x Experienced Developer aka Coach (no lasso) • Awesome Pet Project Idea • Little to no time to develop on his/her own • Willing to help others learn programming the right way • Practice: • Communication • Organizational • Technical • Soft SKILLS
- 9. How 1. Free Hands-On Practice • 2-5 x Beginner Developers aka Team Members • Willing to learn, the right way: • Tech • Team work • Problem solving • Productivity • Other soft • Apply knowledge on project SKILLS
- 10. How 1. Free Hands-On Practice - What’s in it for me? • As a Coach • Context to grow by practicing your current technical and non-technical skills • Implementing your awesome pet project idea faster • Helping others grow by becoming the Coach you wish you had • Satisfaction & fun
- 11. How 1. Free Hands-On Practice - What’s in it for me? • As a Team Member • Improve your technical and non-technical skills • Apply new skills on project => growing with hands-on experience • Build solid foundations • Avoid cowboy coding • Satisfaction & fun
- 12. How 1. Free Hands-On Practice • Pilot • Nov 2017 – May 2018 • 5 students joined DevCoach • Initial talk • 2 weekly 30-45 mins syncs (skype) • Unscheduled dev effort • No deadlines • 1 monthly face to face meeting (didn’t happen )
- 13. How 1. Free Hands-On Practice • Pilot • Requirements Elicitation (+ Confluence) • Architectural Overview • Kanban (+ intro to Scrum + Jira) • User Stories • Story Point Estimates
- 14. How 1. Free Hands-On Practice • Pilot • Git • Code review • Clean code • ASP.NET MVC • Unit Testing
- 15. How 1. Free Hands-On Practice • Pilot • Had to put it on hold • Some left (as expected), but some continued • Slow progress due to: • multiple onboardings • learning to use the tools • leaning to work as a team • Delivered about 10% of the project
- 16. How 1. Free Hands-On Practice • Pilot - Outcome • Good feedback from Team Members • Saw them making progress • Satisfaction => a student got employed as a Junior Software Engineer immediately after • Enjoyed the whole experience from the Coach perspective • Looking forward to resume the project in the near future
- 17. How 1. Free Hands-On Practice • Big picture • More coaches • More projects • More options team members can choose from • More learning opportunities • Local tech community growth
- 18. No pressure
- 19. How 1. Free Hands-On Practice 2. Free Tech articles shared through facebook.com/DevCoachRo 3. Blog with free original articles - devcoachro.wordpress.com 4. Structured paid courses for BEGINNERS • 100 hours of theory and hands-on practice • Bi-weekly, 3 hours / session • Focused on simplicity • Full refund possible after 4 sessions (2 weeks) • Flexible payment options
- 20. How Basic Programming Course • Aimed for students AND career changers • From scratch • No programming experience • No technical background • Willing to put in the effort to learn • Build healthy, solid foundations • Architect your own career • Looking for a junior role in the software world
- 21. How Professional Programming Course • Aimed for anyone who knows the basics of coding • Want to take it to the next level, by avoiding cowboy coding • Learn new concepts • Thoroughly study and apply known concepts in better ways • Looking for a career boost or an advanced junior role in the software world
- 22. Helping Others Triggers: • They are constantly complaining about work • They are saying they want more, yet they do nothing about it • Produce excuses for learning new things (e.g. no time, too hard, cleaning) • They don't take responsibility (e.g. not my job to do that)
- 23. Helping Others Awareness: • How do they spend their free time? • Top time wasters • watching tv (tv shows, reality tv shows, competitions etc.) • netflix and other on demand video stream services • social media (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Whatsapp etc.) • news sites • playing video games (especially online ones) • What new skills have they learned in the past year?
- 24. Helping Others Planning • Plan ahead • Short term realistic goal(s) • Long term realistic goal(s)
- 25. Helping Others Start doing • Start small, but consistent • From nothing to something: make habits with HUGE impact • Reading 15-20 mins/day (1/2 the length of your favorite TV show episode). • 10 pages/day in a month => 300 pages ~ a mid sized tech book like Clean Code • Practice what you learned • Teach what you learned • Challenge a friend to do the same • Habitica app
- 26. Helping Others Revise and Adjust • Pick the best time interval which works for you • Check results • Check goals • Adjust goals if required • Repeat
- 27. Helping Others Helping each other grow • Non-technical • Technical