By Santa's great dangly baubles, it's been twelve whole months since the last TEL newsletter. It's a wonder that the TEL group, who exist to publicise the great technical work that the people of Shine Solutions do, don't just fire that guy that writes these posts. Or doesn't write them, more accurately. Saddle up the reindeer, we've got a lot to cover - including finding out if you can actually saddle a reindeer.
Shine's Technical Excellence Leadership Group (TEL) has had a stellar year! In this post we've pulled together our top picks from 2016 that we think deserve a special shout out before the year comes to a close. But first, a quick recap on what the TEL group actually is.
TEL was established in 2011 with the aim of publicising the great technical work that Shine does, and to raise the company's profile as a technical thought-leader through blogs, local meet up talks, and conference presentations. TEL is allocated a yearly budget from the super-duper generous Shine directors, and the members of the TEL group are put in charge of overseeing how it is spent.
The budget comprises two parts: money and time. The monetary portion of the budget goes to prizes and bonuses for producing material. The time portion is for staff to draw upon to get away from their day-to-day work commitments and to produce their material. So, now that you know what TEL is all about, let's have a look at the highlight reel from 2016 shall we?