[MUSIC]
>> Welcome back to
the Azure Enablement Show and our series on learning resources.
I'm April Edwards, your host for the series.
Now, we'll continue our tour of resources
ready to help you become a better Azure professional.
Without further ado, let's head off to our first destination.
>> Coming up, we're going to Microsoft Certifications.
>> Hello, my name is Sandra Marin.
I am part of the Microsoft learning organization.
I am their go to market lead for
Azure training and certifications.
>> Why should Managers pay attention to certification?
>> Certification is important for
companies because it's a key component for learning culture,
not only as a proof of people skills and expertise,
but also with real benefits.
Certified employees are more productive.
They are more efficient in their roles and they bring
more creative solutions to complex technical problems.
Certified teams add value to the organization.
They have increased productivity,
faster troubleshooting, and fewer skills gap.
Certification simplifies talent identification.
They make this screening process
easier when you are looking to hire
new people or when you want to distinguish your own employees.
>> How should managers get started with certification?
>> It's important for a company to identify what
their business goals are when it comes to digital transformation.
Depending on what the business goals are,
they can identify the right roles that they need,
and with those roles,
they will be able to
identify the right certifications for the team.
>> What are some features that managers should pay attention to?
>> Companies should look for globally
recognized and industry endorsed certifications.
They should look for certification that demonstrate
technical abilities and their willingness
to embrace new technologies,
and that's what they can find in
Azure and in Microsoft certifications.
Learning and certification help people to achieve
more business value and to be more productive,
and all these should be considered when
a company is thinking about certifications.
>> What is one thing that managers
might not know about certifications?
>> One thing about our certifications that
probably is not widely known is,
that they are aligned to relevant industry job roles.
We work very close with our customers,
partners, with industry analysts
to understand what the market needs,
to understand what is the trend in technology,
what companies are going to need in the future,
and that is the way we design our certifications.
We're not just thinking on what it is today,
but we are looking ahead on what is coming,
and with that, we design our certification portfolio.
We are always ready to help your company be prepared.
>> Our next stop is instructor led training.
>> Hi, my name is James Seymour.
I manage the Azure Apps and
infrastructure technical content in worldwide learning.
>> Why should managers pay attention to instructor led training?
>> I think the thing a manager should think
about instructor led training is the customizability.
Not every managers technical.
Learning partners can customize
that course to really meet your level and your needs,
and bring you up to where you need to be.
I would also say that we can focus
those courses so you folks don't
necessarily spend too much time away from the office.
They can be remote, they can be blended learning.
We can really customize that learning path to
meet your and your teams educational needs.
>> How should a manager get started with instructor led training?
>> Managers should get started with instructor
led training by talking to their local learning partner.
That learning partner can help customize the curriculum to meet
the needs of the manager or the manager's team.
They can focus in on the right stuff at the right time,
so they can schedule around
work events or work schedules and customize
that learning path to really meet the needs
and focus on the technologies that team needs.
>> What are some tips and tricks you would give to managers?
>> I would say the biggest piece of
advice I could give to managers,
depending on what their technical background is,
is to start with fundamentals.
Lots of times managers don't have
the technical acumen that their teams do,
so starting with fundamentals can really give you
a broad base of knowledge to then go on to get the admin,
or architect, or whatever particular course
that you're really interested in.
For their teams though,
it may depend on where they are.
They could jump in at the admin,
or sometimes even starting with
Azure fundamentals does help us season
professional because it gives them
the broad base that they don't always use every day.
>> What's one thing that managers might
not know about instructor led training?
>> I would say the thing that managers
don't know about instructor led training is,
you don't always have to go somewhere
and sit in a room for eight hours a day.
We have customized training that well,
today it's largely virtual,
but also can be blended learning,
so you can do some self based study,
then go into a classroom,
virtual or in person.
It can also be scheduled around your particular environment.
You could do night classes for
a day shift or day classes for a night shift.
Whatever it is that's needed for your particular environment
is the local learning partners can really customize in.
>> Next, we visit Microsoft Docs.
>> Hi, my name is David Berry,
I'm a Program Manager in
Microsoft Docs for Azure developer experiences.
>> Hi, I'm Ornella Altunyan.
I'm a Content Developer for Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code.
>> What is Microsoft Docs and
how should a manager get started with it?
>> Microsoft Docs are a one-stop-shop for
all Microsoft products and services.
This content is built by the product managers,
and engineers, and content developers
who actually build the product.
You really can't get more official than that.
If you go to our page,
you'll see a documentation section,
and this will bring up a huge product directory
of all of the things we offer.
For example, if you want to look at Azure,
then you'll be taken to all of the Azure products.
Each one of these has its own table of
contents with a lot of content.
There's reference content, tutorials,
Quick Starts, all of
these different types of ways that you can learn.
For products that have multiple versions.
For example, if we go to something like Visual Studio here,
if you click on any content,
in the upper left-hand corner,
you'll get a version picker and so you'll be able to
see that same content for multiple versions of the product.
>> What are some tips and tricks for using Microsoft Docs?
>> Something that a lot of people don't know about is,
you actually can download our docs as a PDF and where you do that,
it's down here in the lower left-hand corner
with this download PDF link.
This is something I've used before when I've had
a flight that I'm getting on or I
am not going to get Wi-Fi access.
If there's a technology that I want to brush up on,
I'll download the entire Doc set as a PDF onto my tablet,
and then I'll have some reading material for
those times that I don't have Wi-Fi or connectivity.
Another thing that a lot of people don't
know about our Docs is that,
all our Docs are open source,
meaning that if you as a member of the community,
see something that's wrong, like a spelling,
or grammatical error, or maybe you read something and you feel
like this could be explained a little bit more clearly,
you can actually go in and you
can actually make that change yourself.
The way you do that is by going up here
to the "Edit" button once you're signed into Docs.
That actually will take you to a page where you
actually can edit the actual Doc in Markdown,
right in the browser. You make your edits.
Those will go to the content developer
that's responsible for the page.
They'll look over those edits,
they'll, within a couple of days,
approve those edits, and then those
will actually be part of the live Docs set.
This is a great way that if you want to
help out the rest of the community by improving the Docs,
you actually can do that very easily,
right in the browser.
>> How does Microsoft Docs help people succeed?
>> When I think about how these Docs help people succeed,
if you look through our Docs,
through all of our Quick Starts on our tutorials,
we have a lot of sample scenarios and
a lot of sample code that are built in there,
and those can get you experience actually building something
with our products and our technologies,
but they also can provide the basis
for the things that you need to build yourself.
You can take some of that sample code or some of
those commands right out of the document,
and then use that to form your solution.
That really can speed up your success
when using our products and using our Docs.
>> Coming up, we visit GitHub.
>> Hi, everybody. My name's Dave Burnison.
I'm a Technical Advocate with the GitHub and Azure DevOps team.
>> Why should managers go to GitHub?
>> Managers should go to
GitHub and learn about GitHub because it has
expanded beyond just source control and simple issue management.
GitHub's mission is to become the home for all DevOps tools.
Everything from source control,
security management of your code,
continuous integration and continuous deployment,
and so much more.
You can use GitHub instead
of so many different tools for all of your DevOps needs.
>> How should managers get started with using GitHub?
>> A manager can get started using GitHub,
by going to both Microsoft Learn and GitHub Learning Lab,
and look for the learning paths and modules to help
you get started and understand all of the various tools,
all the various DevOps tools that are
available for you and your team in one place.
>> Are there any GitHub features
managers should pay particular attention to?
>> Managers should pay
particular attention to the following areas in GitHub.
Issues in projects for managing all the work,
all the user stories and things that their teams are working on.
You should also pay particular attention or dive
in and learn about GitHub actions,
so they can take part in managing the flow from source code,
to dev environment, to test environment,
to production, and probably even participate in
the approval process that goes
along with deploying solutions to production.
>> What's one thing that managers might not know about GitHub?
>> Managers may not know that GitHub has expanded beyond
just simple source control
and simple issue management in the last couple of years.
It's becoming the one suite for all of your DevOps tools,
including things like security scanning your code,
workflow automation for continuous integration,
continuous delivery, and all flavors of workflow automation.
GitHub's mission is to become
the home for all of your DevOps tools.
By learning about all of this,
you can learn how to use DevOps as your assembly line.
I always say that DevOps is
the software development where
the assembly line is the automobile manufacturing.
But it's even more,
it also includes the logistics to get software to end-users,
like delivery logistics get vehicles to dealers.
If you can set up a secure, efficient, robust,
resilient assembly line for your software solutions,
you will innovate faster than your competition.
>> I hope you've enjoyed our tour across Azure learning resources.
If you're looking to engage with any of
the resources we visit in this video,
please check the text in this video's description.
Enjoy your learning and see you next time.
[MUSIC]