"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.

Speaker(s): Daniel P Martin (Senior Software Engineer)