This talk is about coaching development teams to sucess with minimal investment and maximum enthusiasm

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
 Measures skills and/or performance
 Set objectives
 Feedback from
 Managers
 Peers
 Colleagues in other areas
 Subordinates
 Anonymous results

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. Sharing (The Bonus Multiplier)
 Sharing knowledge/experience brings value
 ROI is bigger
 Better team communication

18. Team Sharing Strategies
 Conference slide karaoke
 Link Tuesdays
 Twitter: #linktuesday
 Shared interest subgroups
 Monthly developer lunch

19. Learning is a
Development Process

20. No Team?
Make One!

21. Leadership

22. Sustainable Learning

23. Now You Can Fish

24. Resources
 360 degree feedback
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/360-degree_feedback
 Risk

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_analysis_(business )
 Return on investment
 http://www.solutionmatrix.com/return-on-investment.html
 Cost-benefit analysis
 http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newTED_08.htm

25. Thanks!
http://joind.in/3428
Links: http://bit.ly/kUCR27
@lornajane
http://www.lornajane.net

26. Image Credit
http://www.flickr.com/photos/
agustinrafaelreyes/4737762656