Balancing "fail-safe" with "safe-to-fail": Building Next-Generation z/VM Engineering Talent
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Professional Development,
Linux & VM,
VM
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SHARE Columbus 2022
"Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before
breakfast." - The White Queen: Lewis Carroll (1832-1898), "Alice's Adventures in
Wonderland." What's your approach to creating your replacement? How do you
safely combine volatile ingredients like "youthful exuberance," "limited
experience," "extraordinary privilege," and "40-plus adjacent LPARs" without
setting the entire laboratory on fire? What if you need a library's worth of
training materials, and all you have is a nearly empty bookshelf? How do you
maintain a fail-safe environment for yourself and your peers while
simultaneously providing a learning environment where it's safe for trainees to
fail? Join me in this case study of onboarding and training next-generation z/VM
engineering talent. We'll look at strategies and tactics for providing training
resources, successfully growing a globally-dispersed team, and methods used to
build a productive working and learning environment that is simultaneously
fail-safe and safe to fail.
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