Build a "Development for Non-Developers" Course

Slides for the workshop ran at SPA Conference 2018

Transcript

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

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2. 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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3. 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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4. 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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5. 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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6. 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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7. 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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8. 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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9. Thank you
   ivan@gourame.com
   https://twitter.com/s4nchez
   

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