Guerrilla training
What is the most disruptive part of training?
- The time your people
spend away from their desks.
What is the most expensive part of training?
- The time your people
spend away from their desks.
Given these problems London Software Partners offers Guerrilla training. This is designed to get your people trained in new skills and techniques while keeping them productive.
It works like this:
- We agree the subject and material your people need training in. Perhaps this comes from an assessment of the problems you need to address or perhaps it comes from one of our existing courses.
- We then look at the time we can squeeze in training. Lunch times, afternoon talks, one-on-one mentoring and coaching sessions, even weekends if that what works for your team.
- We then arrange our
material and courses around those times.
Think of it as out of hours training or on the job training if you like.
Some examples:
- Our Applied to Agile course is normally a daylong. That could be delivered as two whole afternoon sessions, or three Friday afternoon talks.
- Our Test Driven
Development course can be delivered as several one hour
talks – over lunch or late afternoon – supplemented by
one-on-one coaching with your developers. We would sit
and work with your developers, on your code.
Ultimately the course is less important than the end result. A course like Learning to become Agile may be better delivered as a set of reoccurring activities at your office. We would help set them up and make sure the first few weeks go well then turn them over to you and your people to manage.
Training and learning
shouldn't be disruptive and it doesn’t have to mean sitting
in a classroom all day.