Learn. Reflect. Repeat.

As developers, we’re constantly learning: whether it’s figuring out how to solve new problems and bugs, or focusing on new skills and knowledge to apply to our work. At FutureLearn, we reflect our company mission of providing the best learning experiences to everyone, within the way we work as well. We have a culture of learning and supporting each other, encouraging everyone to pursue the skills they want to have. This talk will help you make learning a more integral part of your processes, and explain how to run internal events, like hackdays and lightning talks, to support this.

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1. L earn Reflect Repeat Melinda Seckington @mseckington
2. 1992 @mseckington
3. 2002 Studying Computer Science i’m not good enough i don’t belong here i should know everything i can’t admit i don’t know @mseckington
4. 2012 Started Miss Geeky Geeks of L ondon Finished My Masters Started My Own Company @mseckington
5. 2015 Now FutureL earn @mseckington
6. Why? @mseckington
7. As L earning Developers Are We onstantly C i
8. Syndrome imposter j
9. T ime & L earn Space Fail & T o
10. How Create L earning Culture A Do You Of ?
12. To pioneer the best social learning experiences for everyone, everywhere
13. How Create L earning Culture A Do You Of ?
14. How Act ogether Work We TAnd How earning Support We L
15. How Act ogether Work We TAnd
16. Failure Embrace
17. “Many people think it means accept failure with dignity and move on. The better, more subtle interpretation is that failure is a manifestation of learning and exploration. If you aren’t experiencing failure, then you are making a far worse mistake: You are being driven by the desire to avoid it.” ~ Ed Catmull, Creativity, Inc.
18. Questions There Are No Stupid
19. “every question is a cry to understand the world.” ~ Carl Sagan
20. Trust People The Right Thing To Do
21. “Trusting others doesn’t mean that they won’t make mistakes. It means that if they do (or if you do), you trust they will act to help solve it.” ~ Ed Catmull, Creativity, Inc.
22. Treat People Grownups Like
23. "If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be." ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
24. Don’t Focus On Job Titles
25. "If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. " ~ Mahatma Gandhi
26. Give Constructive Feedback
27. Feedback: I don’t like your commit messages. Constructive feedback: Your commit messages should explain the value of your changes, rather than just focusing on the implementation details. Have you tried describing the problem you’re trying to solve and the context behind it?
28. How Act ogether Work We TAnd
29. How Act ogether Work We TAnd How earning Support We L
30. How earning Support We L
31. learn on your own learn from each other learn from the community learn by teaching
32. Learn Your Own G G on
33. Start A Library
34. Take Online Courses
35. L earn From Each Other J J
36. Pairing & Collaboration
37. earning Hour L
38. Lightning Talks
39. Hackdays
40. L earn From T he Community
41. Share What you Learnt at Conferences
42. alks We ove L T
43. invite xternal peakers E S
44. Arrange Knowledge Exchanges
45. L earn By T e eaching
46. Write a Blog Post
47. Give A Talk
48. Reflect T ake T o T ime Reflect T ake T o T ime
49. Sprint Retrospectives Incident Retrospectives Personal Retrospectives Project Retrospectives
50. “There are two parts to any failure: There is the event itself, with all its attendant disappointment, confusion, and shame, and then there is our reaction to it. It is this second part that we control. Do we become introspective, or do we bury our heads in the sand? Do we make it safe for others to acknowledge and learn from problems, or do we shut down discussion by looking for people to blame? ” ~ Ed Catmull, Creativity, Inc.
51. Repeat
52. Repeat Repeat Repeat Repeat Repeat Repeat Repeat Repeat Repeat Repeat Repeat Repeat Repeat Repeat Repeat Repeat Repeat Repeat
53. How earning Support We L
54. How Act ogether Work We TAnd How earning Support We L
55. L earn Reflect Repeat o o o o
56. 2015 Now @mseckington
57. You? 2016 @mseckington
58. Melinda Seckington @mseckington FutureLearn