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Training Your Team with Steve Lipton
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Related Episodes
- Episode 25 - Hiring an iOS Developer with John Knox
- Episode 29 - Managing iOS Development with Peter Witham
Sponsors
BrightDigit- Specialize in helping businesses build apps for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch
- 10 years of experience developing for a variety of Apple platform
- Helping dev shops which lack experience with Apple platforms and Swift
We have an opening for sponsors
- Do you have a product or service which can target our ever growing community of developers as well as technology and business leaders?
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
- Steve Lipton - No Biz Like Show Biz: Video Recording Your App for Marketing and Instruction
- Have a decent microphone
- Have a quiet room
- Font Size 20 and up
- Balance Size, Resolution and File Size - 16:9 HD Resolution
- Have a script to follow
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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