Training Your Team with Steve Lipton
In this episode, Leo talks with Steve Lipton of MakeAppPie about how to maintain your staff’s skill level when it comes to iOS Development and Swift.
Guest
Related Episodes
- Episode 25 - Hiring an iOS Developer with John Knox
- Episode 29 - Managing iOS Development with Peter Witham
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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
Social Media
- Bertram Eber
- Edward Sanchez
- Satoshi Mitsumori
- Steven Lipton
Creators and Guests
Host
Leo Dion
Swift developer for Apple devices and more; Founder of BrightDigit; husband and father of 6 adorable kids
Guest
Steven Lipton
I’m a pizza-obsessed instructor of LinkedIn Learning courses on SAP B1 and iOS. CIO at a medical device company. Loves to draw and paint on iPad and real paper.