CYF PD

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📅 Sprint 1

Agreements 🔗to Agreements block

You must have read and agreed to all agreements before the first Fundamentals lesson

Bad Interview Answers 🔗to Bad Interview Answers block

We have a lot of serious work to do, but let's start with some fun

Childcare support 🔗to Childcare support block

Ensure trainees are aware of how to apply for childcare expenses.

Critical Thinking 🔗to Critical Thinking block

Learn about the importance of critical thinking.

CYF Code of Conduct 🔗to CYF Code of Conduct block

This a quick exercise to ensure we are all aware of our Code of Conduct and the importance of it for our community.

Design your product 🔗to Design your product block

You now have clarity of what your MVP will be like. The next step is designing your solution.

Fail Fast Prep 🔗to Fail Fast Prep block

This exercise is the work to be done for the next lesson, in which we will discuss the Failing Fast concept.

Failing Fast 🔗to Failing Fast block

Failing fast is essential for success. It is important to get in the habit of being comfortable with trying new things, learning from them, making adjustments when things don’t go as expected and trying again until you achieve your objective.

Feedback 🔗to Feedback block

We will give each other feedback on the document we prepared before the session.

General Weekly Availability 🔗to General Weekly Availability block

We all have some kind of standard availability, which helps us organising our day to day. So let's share this information with the team so we can better support each other.

Goal of the Portfolio Module 🔗to Goal of the Portfolio Module block

Why are we here and what are we trying to achieve?

Goal setting and planning 🔗to Goal setting and planning block

Understanding the goals of the Portfolio module and setting our own

Identify pairs per week 🔗to Identify pairs per week block

In this exercise we will identify people that have the same availability and pair them, so they can do some coursework together.

Importance of Professional Development 🔗to Importance of Professional Development block

Highlighting the importance of professional development in order to get a tech job

Launch - Prep 🔗to Launch - Prep block

The prep work for the Launch will ensure you can start your first week with all admin work organised and set up and your product briefing understood. Doing these tasks well ensures faster and more efficient delivery, so do it carefully.

Non-Verbal Communication 🔗to Non-Verbal Communication block

You will learn about and practice non-verbal communication.

Pairs for next week 🔗to Pairs for next week block

Define the pairs for the next week.

Prep and plan your product 🔗to Prep and plan your product block

The goal of this first meeting is to define what you are trying to deliver as a team.

Prep Critical Thinking 🔗to Prep Critical Thinking block

This prep is for you to learn about critical thinking.

Prep for Feedback 🔗to Prep for Feedback block

This is the preparation work for the exercise that will be done in the next lesson, about feedback

Prep Non-verbal Communication 🔗to Prep Non-verbal Communication block

This prep is for you to learn about non-verbal communication.

Prep Resilience 🔗to Prep Resilience block

Prep to get familiar with Resilience

Prep Teamwork Project 🔗to Prep Teamwork Project block

During the JS3 module, trainees will work in a group on the Teamwork Project.

Prep the work for the week 🔗to Prep the work for the week block

Agree the next steps for your team

Prep Transferable Skills 🔗to Prep Transferable Skills block

This exercise is for you to think about your transferrable skills and how they will help you in your new career in tech.

Prep Working Software and Done 🔗to Prep Working Software and Done block

This prep is for you to learn about Agile and important concepts.

Resilience 🔗to Resilience block

Learn about Resilience

Reviewing and improving goals 🔗to Reviewing and improving goals block

Everybody has different approaches to creating goals. Use this session to review goals as a group and share feedback with each other. Create an opportunity for dialogue about the challenges you may face in achieving these goals and how you can support each other to collectively achieve your goals.

SDC Goals and expectations 🔗to SDC Goals and expectations block

Presentation with multiple exercises

Sprint planning 🔗to Sprint planning block

Plan the upcoming week of work as a team

Teamwork Project S1 🔗to Teamwork Project S1 block

In this session, we will talk about tech teams and different tech roles.

Transferable skills 🔗to Transferable skills block

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What is the Launch module 🔗to What is the Launch module block

An exercise to ensure everyone understands the Launch module and it’s benefits, outcome and challenges.

Working Software and Done 🔗to Working Software and Done block

Explore what goes into a definition of done and how delivering valuable increments is important in an Agile software development project.

Writing user stories 🔗to Writing user stories block

Clear user stories with defined acceptance criteria ensure we can deliver a feature efficiently and with less re-work.

📅 Sprint 2

Active listening 🔗to Active listening block

In this session you will practice active listening, so that you experience it and can use it in the future

Backlog Refinement and Planning 🔗to Backlog Refinement and Planning block

To ensure the team is all on the same page the planning and/or backlog refinement session are key.

Conflict Resolution 🔗to Conflict Resolution block

Conflict resolution promotes understanding, cooperation, and healthier relationships.

Demo Time! 🔗to Demo Time! block

All teams will show the amazing work they have done so far.

Difficult workplace conversations 🔗to Difficult workplace conversations block

This session discusses some potential difficult conversations in the workplace and offers tips for constructive outcomes following these conversations.

Find and analyse a Job Description - Prep 🔗to Find and analyse a Job Description - Prep block

Find a job posting that appeals to you and do some prep work to compare how well you fit that job.

Gathering requirements Prep 🔗to Gathering requirements Prep block

This is the prep work for the Teamwork Project Sprint 2 lesson.

Google sheet for Slack rota 🔗to Google sheet for Slack rota block

Learning to use Google Sheets so the cohort can organise their rota for the coursework

Job Descriptions and Questions for Employers 🔗to Job Descriptions and Questions for Employers block

Review the Job Description analysis you created in the prep, and prepare good questions for employers before applying.

Learn about Slack 🔗to Learn about Slack block

Preparation for the Slack class to ensure you have some knowledge

Let's get jobs 🔗to Let's get jobs block

In this session we will work on our employability skills. This means: improving our CVs, LinkedIn profiles, GitHub profiles, finding and analysing job descriptions, and preparing for interviews.

Population Block 🔗to Population Block block

Create all the skills and modules

Portfolio Module: Prep work for planning 🔗to Portfolio Module: Prep work for planning block

This is the prep for the 2nd and 4th week of the Portfolio Module.

Prep Conflict Resolution 🔗to Prep Conflict Resolution block

This is your prep work for the next lesson.

Prep Difficult workplace conversations 🔗to Prep Difficult workplace conversations block

Handling potentially difficult conversations in the workplace.

Prep for active listening 🔗to Prep for active listening block

This is the preparation work for the exercise that will be done in the next lesson, about active listening.

Prep Problem Solving 🔗to Prep Problem Solving block

Problem-solving skills are skills that enable people to handle unexpected situations or difficult challenges at work.

Prep Roles in Tech 🔗to Prep Roles in Tech block

This prep exercise is for you to research available roles in tech. You need to have this done before the next class.

Prep your Demo presentation 🔗to Prep your Demo presentation block

The demo is an Agile ceremony. It celebrates your team's achievement during the past sprint, in our case, the past week.

Problem Solving 🔗to Problem Solving block

We will learn about and practice problem-solving.

Retrospective 🔗to Retrospective block

Retrospective is another important ceremony in the Agile framework. In the same way, you talk to users to gather their feedback and act on it; this is the time for your team to discuss what is going well and what isn’t.

Roles in the tech industry 🔗to Roles in the tech industry block

In this session, we will talk about the roles in tech and ensure we all understand the variety and importance of them

Teamwork Project S2 🔗to Teamwork Project S2 block

This session will explore what a tech product is, who are the users of a product, and how the product meets user needs.

User research 🔗to User research block

User research is a great way of building empathy towards the users of your products. The users will also be able to give your feedback and ensure you are going in the right direction with your development.

Using the Slack app 🔗to Using the Slack app block

In this session, we will practice using Slack in the cohort.

📅 Sprint 3

Define your product's MVP 🔗to Define your product's MVP block

Work as a team to define your product's Minimum Viable Product

Demo your product 🔗to Demo your product block

Demoing your product is something you will always have to do - and practice makes perfect.

Developer Communication 🔗to Developer Communication block

In this lessons you will use the content you prepared with your pair and present it back to your cohort.

Growth Mindset 🔗to Growth Mindset block

This session will support you to distinguish the growth mindset from the fixed mindset and to understand how you can actually maintain a growth mindset.

Importance of helping each other 🔗to Importance of helping each other block

This session will identify the ways that people help each other in CYF and why CYF graduates look for jobs together when they have completed the course.

Importance of helping each other prep 🔗to Importance of helping each other prep block

This exercise is the work to be done for the next lesson, in which we will discuss the Importance of helping each other.

Job Hunting and Mock Interview 🔗to Job Hunting and Mock Interview block

In this session, students will learn how to tailor their resumes based on the job description of the job they are aiming for.

Prep CYF Blocks presentation 🔗to Prep CYF Blocks presentation block

This preparation work will ensure you are ready to present your CYF Blocks project to your cohort

Prep Developer Communication 🔗to Prep Developer Communication block

This prep exercise is for you to think about how to explain concepts to different audiences.

Prep for Growth Mindset 🔗to Prep for Growth Mindset block

Preparation for the Growth Mindset session

Prep for WIP-Work in Progress 🔗to Prep for WIP-Work in Progress block

Play an online game where you manage a development team and want to deliver as much value as possible in 4 sprints of 10 working days each.

Prep Job Hunting and Mock Interview 🔗to Prep Job Hunting and Mock Interview block

A competency-based interview is also known as a structured, behavioural, or situational interview. They will often feature some activity or task that will test a candidate’s ability to do what their CV and cover letter have said they can do, alongside situational-style questions to determine how they have used specific skills to solve problems.

Prep Value and Work Not Done 🔗to Prep Value and Work Not Done block

This prep focuses on learning about identifying value in a work setting.

Present CYF Blocks project 🔗to Present CYF Blocks project block

Now everyone will present their CYF Blocks project

Teamwork Project S3 🔗to Teamwork Project S3 block

This session will explore how to detail the features you listed during prep work and then create create features user stories and tasks for your product.

Value and Work Not Done 🔗to Value and Work Not Done block

In this session, you will put what you learned about value into practice.

WIP and Feedback 🔗to WIP and Feedback block

In this session, you will play a game to explore how getting early customer feedback can improve a team’s effectiveness and discuss WIP (Work not Done).

📅 Sprint 4

Asking good technical questions 🔗to Asking good technical questions block

As developers, we are always learning (new technology, languages, libraries, APIs, interfaces, platforms, methods, techniques…). As a result, there are always problems that we face that we can’t immediately understand. So as well as getting good at learning new things, we also need to get good at asking good questions that give us the answers we need to progress quickly. This module provides some concepts and activities that will help you ask better questions.

Ball Point Game 🔗to Ball Point Game block

The Ball Point game brings to life several aspects of working in an agile way. Teams invent a process to ‘deliver’ balls and then improve these processes over the course of several sprints.

Collective job hunt 🔗to Collective job hunt block

Work as a team and help each other by doing a collective job hunt

Create groups for JS1 🔗to Create groups for JS1 block

Create groups that will work together on the next module

Create groups for JS2 🔗to Create groups for JS2 block

Create new diverse groups for JS2

Create groups for JS3 🔗to Create groups for JS3 block

Create new diverse groups for JS3

Create groups for React 🔗to Create groups for React block

Create new diverse groups for React module

Discuss the needs of employers 🔗to Discuss the needs of employers block

Understanding employers' needs can help you a lot when looking and applying for jobs.

Diversity and Inclusion 🔗to Diversity and Inclusion block

This session will help to recognise systemic problems regarding diversity and inclusion and discuss how we can contribute to a more diverse and inclusive tech industry.

Introspection in groups 🔗to Introspection in groups block

Evaluate your learning process so far.

Prep - Asking Good Questions 🔗to Prep - Asking Good Questions block

This prep is for you to think of how to ask good questions and think of ones you might have.

Prep - Public Speaking / Circles of Influence 🔗to Prep - Public Speaking / Circles of Influence block

You will prepare a short talk for your peers at the Saturday session. You will also use Circles of Influences to categorise the various concerns in your life.

Prep - Sell yourself 🔗to Prep - Sell yourself block

This session explains how self-promoting is different from bragging.

Prep Collaborative job hunt 🔗to Prep Collaborative job hunt block

This prep will show you the importance of looking for jobs collaboratively.

Prep for Diversity and Inclusion 🔗to Prep for Diversity and Inclusion block

Recognising systemic problems regarding diversity and inclusion and contributing to a more diverse and inclusive tech industry

Prep for Introspection 🔗to Prep for Introspection block

This is the preparation work for the exercise that will be done in the next lesson, about introspection.

Prep for SMART Goals 🔗to Prep for SMART Goals block

This is the preparation work for the exercise that will be done in the next lesson, about SMART Goals

Prep Understanding employers needs 🔗to Prep Understanding employers needs block

This prep will show you why understanding employers’ needs is important.

Public Speaking / Circles of Influence 🔗to Public Speaking / Circles of Influence block

In this session, you will practice speaking confidently to your peers. You will also further develop the Circles of Influence you created in the prep work.

Sell yourself 🔗to Sell yourself block

In this session, we will practice our elevator pitches, show off each other’s strengths and identify our value for companies.

Setting SMART Goals 🔗to Setting SMART Goals block

Practice how to set SMART goals.

Teamwork Project Presentation prep 🔗to Teamwork Project Presentation prep block

In the next session, you will present your product’s brief, what you have learnt and how you have worked during the Teamwork Project.

Teamwork Project S4 🔗to Teamwork Project S4 block

In this session, each team will present their product brief, learning and work during the Teamwork Project