Client
Sky.
Industry
Telecommunications and Mass Media.
Sky is Europe’s leading media and entertainment company. Across six countries our innovative products connect 23 million customers to the best apps, and all the entertainment, sports, news and arts they love, including our own award-winning original content.
Summary
A set of six-week workshops delivered to several cohorts of developers as part of their onboarding to Sky during their move from London to Leeds. It was essential to ensure those working with the Sky technology stack — which was mostly Ruby at the time — could contribute to and evolve projects as quickly as possible. Sky considered the workshops such a success that they had further workshops commissioned, and the materials of which are still used as part of onboarding new developers today.
I’ve had the privilege of working with Josh for many years. His approach and skillset have not only helped me become a better developer but a better person overall. If you’re looking to make your workplace more collaborative, engaging and highly-efficient, Josh is the person to help you start your journey.
Joe Bell, Contract Software Engineer for Himself
Highlights
- Creation of workshops centred around the Sky technology stack (Ruby, JavaScript, Heroku, Continuous Deployment/Integration)
- Delivery of an Open Source library of content, made available to the public for free under the Creative Commons licence
- One-to-one mentoring of topics and workshops to help those who were interested in digging deeper or in need of extra support
- Design and delivery of an assessment to ensure those leaving the “boot camp” period understood the topics and concepts introduced
- Integration of workshops with real projects, ensuring developers were quickly able to implement their knowledge by deploying code to production