Build a "Development for Non-Developers" Course

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Build a “Development for Non-Developers” Course Ivan Sanchez (@s4nchez) SPA Conference, London, 4th July 2018

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Two goals for today ● Identify knowledge and skills gaps within a team ○ For better communication ○ To help on delivery ● Explore ways of sharing

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Pick your post-it colour ● Pink if you’re mainly a developer ● Green if you don’t deal with code at all ● Yellow if you do a mix of both On the post-it you have chosen, write down one or two things you’d like to take out from this workshop

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Jargon Storming Write down as many words as possible used by developers (names of technologies, techniques, practices, tools, methods, common problems), splitting them into 4 quadrants (conception, construction, operation, verification) ● Avoid deep diving ● Take personal notes of words that caught your attention ● Don’t worry too much about the quadrants

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Software Delivery Mapping Choose one developer to map how they get their code from concept to production in seven steps or less. ● Step names in language people can understand ● For each step (what): ○ List its benefits, outcomes, and trade-offs (why) ○ List all the jargon used (how) ● Avoid deep diving ● Take personal notes of things you’d like to learn more about

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Designing Learning Experiences Create SUP activities: ● Short: minutes/hours, rather than days/weeks ● Useful: give people superpowers ● Practical: learn by writing/doing, rather than just reading/watching

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Learning Experiences Examples ● Create your first website with HTML + CSS ● Sharing and collaboration using GitHub ● Host a website using Heroku ● Making and deploying simple UI changes ● Make sense of logging and monitoring dashboards ● Version control treasure hunt using git ● Create your own release pipeline with Travis CI

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Design Learning Experiences Using the Software Delivery Map ● Choose one or two topics that the whole team could benefit from learning more about ● Create one or two SUP (short, useful, practical) learning experiences for each of those

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Thank you [email protected] https://twitter.com/s4nchez