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What are we doing right?
• Hardware and Resources• Cloud VMs.• High powered laptops
• Encouraging Self learning.• Pluralsight
What we need• Have a solid foundation of skills.• Have a strong network of skilled people.
Credibility • We need to do awesome
things.• We need other awesome
people to know that we are doing awesome things.• Other awesome people
should want to work with us.• We get to learn from
awesome things from them.
Encourage culture of building things• Things that are built have more credibility.• Ideas are dime a dozen. • There is no space at the bottom.• A vacuum at the top.• Absence of need for implementation
encourages frivolous “ideas”.
What we should be doing
1. Expand the Self learning umbrella2. x-BU socializing at the grass roots level.3. Public source code repositories.4. Public Blogs and newsletters5. Hands on workshops.6. Hack days and mash-a-thons.7. Show and tells.8. Podcasts/webcasts.9. Events / Demo booths.10. User group meet ups and flash talks
Expand the self learning umbrella
• Coursera• Code Academy• Khan Academy• Stanford Online• Many more…..
x-BU Socializing at the grassroots level• Incentivize x-BU connectivity.• Encourage employees to reach out to • Employees from other BUs.• New acquisitions.
Public source code repositories
• Good code brings credibility.• Feel good factor in publishing something of
your own.• Builds credibility of the organization.
Public blogs and forum participation
• Personal public blogs – non-curated.• Newsletters – Curated.• Improves written communication skills.• Public display of knowledge improves
credibility.
Hands on workshops
• Technical thought leaders can explore and deep dive into any of the new technologies.• Developed some expertise.• Pass on the acquired knowledge to the rest
of the team.• Recordings can be submitted to EAS, other
avenues.
User Group Meet-ups & Flash Talks
• Focused meet ups specializing on a specific technology.• Scheduled meetings where enthusiasts
meet, share knowledge, discuss and collaborate.
Hack events and Mash-a-thons
• Employees form teams and come up with ideas.• Implement a something tangible
within a given time frame.• Encourages the culture of building
cool things.
Show and Tells
• Provides a platform for an employee to showcase anything cool that he may have built.• Can be a tool, a utility, a POC, a full
fledged demo.
Podcasts /Webcasts
• Can be a quarterly, or a monthly deliverable.• Improves communication skills. • Credibility.
Events / Demo booths / Road shows
• Internal events hosted by EMC Consulting.• EMC employees speaking in external
events.
Points based a la carte goal measurement• Each activity is assigned a
predefined weightage of points• Freedom to choose any activity of
his liking.• As per his level of competency
and motivation.• The total number of points
should add up.
Provide avenues• Everybody brings a
distinct skillset to the table
Build it and they will come.
