1. Teach a Man
to Fish

2. Give a man a fish and you feed
him for a day
Teach a man to fish and you
feed him for a lifetime
- Chinese Proverb

3. Sustainability
and Teams

4. Skills and Aptitude
 Skills: Things you can do now
 Aptitude: Things you are capable of
 There are some things you will never do

5. Understanding Skill Sets

6. 360 Degree Feedback
 Method for measuring skills and/or performance
 Set objectives
 each person feeds back on each other person
 each person feeds back on the feedback they
received
 includes management, subordinates, peers and self
 information is shared anonymously

7. Skills Analysis
 Areas and sub-areas
 Rate everyone on each area
 Create a chart

8. Skills Analysis
PHP Frontend
Syntax OOP ZF Stack JS HTML CSS
Anna 5 5 4 5 1 2 1
Billy 3 3 3 2 4 4 4
Charles 5 5 5 3 4 3 3
Diane 5 3 4 2 3 5 5
Edward 4 3 2 2 5 5 4
Average 4.4 3.8 3.6 2.8 3.4 3.8 3.4

9. Skill Gaps

10. Filling the Gap:
Recruitment

11. Cost = Time + Money
Impact = Risk x Cost

12. The Power of
Not Recruiting

13. Learning

14. Learning Resources
 Feeds/Podcasts
 Subscriptions
 Training
 Consultancy
 Events
 Study days

15. Training Budget

16. Making the Business Case
 Spend your investment wisely
 Cost Benefit Analysis
 Return on Investment
 investment we know
 return is harder to measure

17. Types of Return

18. Conference or General
Training

19. Specific Training or Study

20. Sharing (The Bonus Multiplier)
 Shared gain multiplies the return
 ROI is bigger
 Better team communication

21. Team Sharing Strategies
 Conference slide karaoke
 Link Tuesdays
 Shared interest subgroups
 Monthly developer lunch

22. Learning is a
Development Process

23. No Team?
Make One!

24. Leadership

25. Now You Can Fish

26. Thanks!
http://joind.in/2049
@lornajane
http://www.lornajane.net
http://daycamp4developers.com