Learning and development day February 2019

Rough agenda

This is the first draft agenda when I was asked to do this intro - most of it is covered in the [project board] but I'm popping it here to try an cover anything I might have missed.

##Slack

WHAT IS SLACK

• a communication tool
• a discussion tool
• team environments / channels
• direct messaging

HOW SLACK WORKS

• create a user account
• logging in
• where's the desktop app?
• use it on your phone
• setting your preferences

HOW WE USE SLACK

• Who can create channels?
• Private vs Public channels
• team channels, project channels, subject channels
• #cake, #pop and #random

HOW WE DON'T USE SLACK

• Slack is transient
• Slack is limited
• Slack is subject to FOI requests
• Slack is still on the internet

Github

WHAT IS GITHUB

• Source code
• How git works
• Beyond the source code
• Issues and Pull requests
• Project boards
• Wiki

HOW WE USE GITHUB

• 2FA
• Examples ** An issue logging and tracking tool ** A project/sprint/process tracking tool ** As documentation ** As a knowledge base

GITHUB'S POWERFUL Features

• Searching issues
• Task lists
• Project automation

HOW WE DON'T USE GITHUB

• Public repos can be read and found by anyone