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Training Your Team with Steve Lipton

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Why Training Is Important

  • What is the Red Queen Dilemma?
  • What's the difference between Coding and Programming
  • Why knowing your customer's needs helps your training be better focused
  • The significance of Soft Skills too
  • Why you should invest in your current employees rather than hiring new employees
  • When consultants and trainers make the most sense
  • Building Good Documentation

What Makes For Good Training Material

  • Make sure the pattern and style matches yours
  • Good production quality
  • Make sure it's readable!
  • Make sure your audience understands - Bloom's Taxonomy
  • Make sure it sticks

Creating Good Training Videos

How to Judge Good Training Material Online

  • How many video do they have?
  • Watch the welcome video
  • Good series of tracks
  • Good organization

Specific Challenges with Xcode and Swift

  • Dealing with constant changes and updates (i.e. Xcode)
  • Understand updates are part of the workflow
  • Patterns are more stable then APIs (i.e. Reactive Programming vs Combine)
  • Apple's Character Arcs
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