Creating a culture of learning at Tuenti

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Culture of Learning Fina @finuka Kini @kinisoftware MAD · NOV 24-25 · 2017

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Culture of Learning Kina @finuka Fini @kinisoftware MAD · NOV 24-25 · 2017 by Pedro

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Culture of learning

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Culture of learning If in your company, you have ever done...

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Culture of learning If in your company, you have ever done... ● Do you assign a buddy, officially or extra-officially, to a newbie?

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Culture of learning If in your company, you have ever done... ● Do you assign a buddy, officially or extra-officially, to a newbie? ● Do you do code reviews?

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Culture of learning If in your company, you have ever done... ● Do you assign a buddy, officially or extra-officially, to a newbie? ● Do you do code reviews? ● Do you do pair-programming?

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Culture of learning If in your company, you have ever done... ● Do you assign a buddy, officially or extra-officially, to a newbie? ● Do you do code reviews? ● Do you do pair-programming? ● Do you discuss over a whiteboard or a paper?

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Culture of learning We also want to learn! http://goo.gl/slides/5k9j9v

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@finuka FINA

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@finuka Kini @kinisoftware

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What is it for us? Win-Win ● Motivation ● Better environment ● Happiness ● Up-to-date ● Work quality

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What we have done… and why it didn’t work

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What we have done… and why it didn’t work

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What we have done… and why it didn’t work

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What we have done… and why it didn’t work

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What we are doing now...

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Coursera course group

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Communities of practice Post in medium

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Kitchen Talks ● Once a week ● Involve everyone ● Not too long talks ● Not just related to the company

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Workshops & Internal trainings

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Hack Me Up ● Kick-off

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Hack Me Up ● Kick-off ● Coding time! ● Dinner

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Hack Me Up ● Kick-off ● Coding time! ● Dinner ● GTD ● Project presentations

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Hack Me Up ● Kick-off ● Coding time! ● Dinner ● GTD ● Project presentations ● Winners!!

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Bootcamp

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Bootcamp

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Bootcamp

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Meetups and much more...

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Meetups

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Mentoring

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Mentoring

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Time bank

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Output

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Side projects

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Side projects

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Side projects

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New technologies in production

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New technologies in production

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New technologies in production

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Pragmatism to introduce something new How do we use brand new [whatever] in prod? 15:30 - Track 4

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What can I do next Monday?

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What can I do next Monday? ● Ask your mates ● Make a list of whatever you all want to learn / Make a list of whatever you all already can share to each other ● Decide a practice for learning ● Decide a time slot to do talks ● Be an example

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Golden rules

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Golden rules

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Golden rules

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Golden rules

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Golden rules “Si tu empresa es grande, empieza por tu equipo. Si es una empresa pequeña, puedes involucrar a más gente.”

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What can I do next Monday? ● Communities of learning ● Kitchen/Lunch Talks ● Workshops & Internal Trainings ● Hack Me Up/Hackathon ● Bootcamp ● Mentoring ● Meetups

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Communities of learning ● Look for a topic you want to learn ● Tell your mates about it (by mail, chat, whatever) ● Set up your first meeting and decide how to start ● Spread the word so everyone knows about the new community

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Kitchen/Lunch Talks ● Look for a topic you already know and that can be useful ● It can be a refactor you did, a new lib you just used and so on ● Set up a meeting in a time that fits okay ● You can start by lunch time or Friday’s afternoon

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Workshops & Internal Trainings ● Choose something that you just did in the code ● Gather people that could be interested in the topic

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Hack Me Up / Hackathon ● Look for a day in the month that fits everyone ● Start for something simple as “bug hunting”, “clean the code”, UX quick fix or so ● Involve as much people as possible ● Create some kind of competition with a symbolic price

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Bootcamp ● Identify the areas that someone new should know to start working ● Share it with your workmates in order to get feedback ● Let your lead/HR know about it ● Create a welcome pack

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Mentoring ● What would have you liked to know before joining your company? ● Mentoring is about growing and helping each other ● Give feedback to your mates and help them to improve themselves

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Meetups ● Show up in the communities and do networking ● Get involved in the communities giving a talk or hosting a meetup ● Keep your mates informed about new meetups ● Try to convince your mates for giving a talk, specially if they already had one ready