In lieu of weekly staff meetings, UCS will be engaged in training, brain-storming sessions and other staff development activities three days per month and a staff meeting one day per month.
Todays event was a success. There was a group looking at various ways to utilize MRTG to activity monitor a variety of system events. Another group performed a Solaris 10 install and will do a Oracle 10g install next week. I spent my time researching various PHP IDEs and training tools. All team members were actively expanding their knowledge and some dared to learn technology outside of their comfort zone.
For additional information about how this idea was conceived, see Travis’s blog.
Today's participant comments on the development session can be found here:
Travis
Summer
Michael E.
Shaun
Joanie
Dale
Ron
Nathan
Joan
Tricia
Great idea! Having a unit-dedicated time makes it a committment. I've tried carving PD time out in my own personal schedule, but it's too easy to let it be bumped with more pressing needs.