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Ready for Technet Online 2015
I am looking forward to this years TechDays Online 2015 which is being run between the 3rd and 5th February 2015. If you cant make the sessions then they normally appear on Microsoft Virtual Academy a few weeks later. This is being done over 3 days with a packed agenda that you can dip in and…
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Eating a slice of the Training Pie – MicroLearning
I have written several blogs now on CPD and have received some good feedback. Following on from my post (How much CPD Training should you be doing)- and the post with the Survey Results, I received some good feedback from Jerry Overton. “I noticed a gap between the amount of training IT professionals think they…
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A balance of Verifiable and Non-Verifiable CPD
The next comment I want to analyse from the CPD and Learning Survey is: Given the speed of change in IT, I think an average of 2 to 3 hours per week in a mix of verifiable ( e.g. courses (on-line or physical)) and unverifiable- Blogs, papers, news sources, hands on etc.should be a minimum to aim…
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“My Time, My Development”
From the recent CPD and Learning Survey that I recently ran, I want to now start looking at the comments that have been left by the respondents. Rather than just list them, I will blog about them individually or group a couple as some of the comments provide an interesting insight into how CPD (Continuous Professional…
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Questioning the Question
A good technique I picked up on a while ago during a learning event which can help with thinking and innovation is the Questioning Technique. This is basically where you break down each part (word) of the question and challenge it by asking other questions around it. This helps in opening the orignal question up…
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Imagine Programming
Following on from my post on Doctor Who: Friendly Dalek teaches you to code, Microsoft have Microsoft Imagine which is another initiative to take the younger and older generations through coding using simple tools and encourages them to develop games and applications (no Cybermen to shoot here though). Games Development using: Kodu Game Lab TouchDevelop…
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How much CPD/Training should you be doing?
Following on from the results of the Survey that I recently ran (Results from IT Professionals and CPD Survey) the below is some further analysis on the results. Looking at the data in Question 4 against the data in Question 6 Q4. How many hours do you complete annually developing/learning? Q6. How many hours do you…
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Results from IT Professionals and CPD Survey
I have analysed the results for the IT Professionals and CPD survey I have been running recently and this blog post is to show them. There were 21 replies to the survey. I would have liked more, however the results illustrate a sample of what IT Professionals are doing for development and CPD. Remembering of…
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Data Science Tools and Cloud Usage
At the end of 2014 O’Reilly published a Data Science Salary Survey report. Two areas of the report that caught my attention not because of the Salary side, but because of the other data collected and the trends it shows. The first of these is the popularity of Tools that help enable Data Scientists. R and Excel…
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Open Source for DevOps Practices in a Microsoft Environment
Microsoft have just released the slides and training for Open Source for DevOps Practices via the Microsoft Virtual Academy. The training covers 4 sessions and uses some Microsoft Tools/Services in the demonstrations/training: What DevOps Means Here; Common DevOps Practices and Supporting Open Source Tooling Version Control as a Communication Tool; Issue Trackers as a Coordination…
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Max Hemingway 