It turns out how we learn and share technical knowledge at tech companies is different than in traditional industries. Things change fast. They are rarely well-documented, updated, or published in a polished form. Most of it is tribal.
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TechKnowCon is a gathering of the minds. It is for us, and by us. Everyone is a participant. During this event, we will discuss how we design and implement technical training, documentation, peer learning, knowledge bases, and knowledge sharing tools in order to increase your teams' technical performance and confidence.
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Our goal is to create an opportunity to compare notes and share our experiences with one another.
Amber D. Marcu, Ph.D. is a Learning Nerd and Certified ProSci® Change Practitioner. As a member of the Engineering@Microsoft Learning & Insights team, she uses data to enable, accelerate, and influence the empowerment of every engineer at Microsoft, because she believes Microsoft is the best place for engineers to work and build their career.
If you wouldn't send information to a server without checking for a 200 response, you shouldn't teach people without verifying the results. But many great engineers lose sight of their principles when leading a classroom.
"Teach Like an Engineer" offers a framework for building technical curriculum and measuring its effectiveness. You'll learn how to define success, pseudocode interactive curriculum so you can build it quickly, and confirm the results.
Collections and Curation: Learning at Scale
Microsoft’s internal learning site, Engineering Academy, was created by a small, data-informed learning team dedicated to making learning and development resources available to more than 50,000 engineers worldwide. The site continues to evolve through a balance of defining needs, setting priorities, establishing partnerships, identifying content, and understanding the difference between collections and curation.