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Management doesn't call it "training" unless it's organized and restricted in some way. One developer going to another and saying, "Hey, I need help with this,
by dkarl 16y ago
Management doesn't call it "training" unless it's organized and restricted in some way. One developer going to another and saying, "Hey, I need help with this," and the two of them going through it with a terminal or a whiteboard is not "training" unless it done on management's schedule or recorded in some training web site. From management's point of view, if they can't track and report it, it doesn't exist. So if you want informal training run by developers, you tell management you don't need any training at all.
- eru 16y agoI am glad my workplace is a bit less pathological.
- dkarl 16y agoYou did say "setting up a system to disperse knowledge and allocate time." That's management talk. Nobody should need to get time "allocated" so he can use the "system" to disperse knowledge. There's your pathology right there: the idea that developers can't or shouldn't manage their own time, not to mention the idea that developers don't know how to teach each other or write documentation without management setting up a system to help them.
- eru 16y agoOh, my talk may sound strange because English is not my first language.