u/cglee wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
If you're serious about this, I'd be very happy to help you brainstorm. I've been working on a better bootcamp replacement for about a decade. It's a tricky problem with a lot of conflicting goals. As for your pods idea -- I tried this approach many years ago. The main problem
u/michaelnovati replied ·
We have simple ways to work on the skill gap problem that work okay but reported skill gaps is still one of the more common reported feedback for sessions.
We have mostly solved scheduling through both algorithms and product, in that people flaking entirely happens fairly minimally (but is terrible when it does and could still be reduced more). We can schedule sessions according to people's calendars, availability, magic factors, and then have all kinds of product to make sure people attend and to automatically follow-up with people who don't - with escalations.
One thing we launched recently is self organizing sessions for people that work well together (but doesn't address skill gap feedback directly). We have a cool new concept we are building for Q4 that should solve skill gap but it's a secret because it's not built yet but our entire team is working on this stuff day in day out, I certainly could not solve this on my own.
The idea is really really cool and one of those things that works BETTER the bigger you are so we ironically have to grow more in order to offer it which is the opposite of the school approach - where typically things get worse with scale.