Technical bootcamp 1/12/23 to 1/13/23 Retrospective - Please answer the following questions

[dkalmin]

What do we do well?

What could we have done better?

Ideas and suggestions?

[ericboszin]

What do we do well?
Really great bootcamp, love the hand-on and actual coding exercises. Configuring and seeing the features in GitHub helps solidify understanding.

What could we have done better?
Due to technical difficulties, some labs were difficult to complete / took longer to complete. Additionally, some labs felt unfinished and could be improved by making steps clear / verbiage accurate.

Ideas and suggestions?
I feel we could have better explored actions and seen some more of the capabilities. Perhaps not in scope for this training, but creating a basic pipeline would be cool to run through.

[TBunkley]

1. The explanations of the features were well done, and I appreciated some of the historical context. with ADO and Github teams.
2. It was alot of powerpoint. I guess that comes with being comprehensive.
3. Maybe have the labs based on common real life scenarios?

[migster]

Great class! I really enjoyed the labs and hands on part. I like the way it was structured with the overview, live demo, and then time for us to work on it. I've had a GitHub account since 2014 and I was not aware of much of the advanced functionality, specially the security aspects.

On the improvement side some of the labs were not fully baked. As a Microsoft employee I don't mind being a part of the testing for them. So it was ok for me, but.... If we're running these sessions for partners and customers we should focus on consistency for the labs. Maybe we could have like dev and prod versions of the labs and use the dev ones for internal sessions.

Appreciate the work that David and Trina put into the sessions!

[paultman]

What do we do well?
I appreciated that the labs were quite easy to follow. They were clear in what to do, and explaining the context/reasoning.

What could we have done better?
Possibly a finished sample reference repo with each step tagged. To then be checked out at any point, allowing students to catch up at the start of any section while following the live presentation (as necessary).

Ideas and suggestions?
Similar to some other feedback here, more "real world" example(s) would be good. This is more an intro/first look, but a more advanced, follow-on class would be very useful for those who have finished this one, or more advanced users to start.