Rapid Skill Acquisition: I found the book “The First 20 hours (how to learn anything FAST” by Josh Kaufman to be helpful in getting past the learning hurtle. Amazon.com
Josh Kaufman offers his systematic approach to rapid skill acquisition shows you how to deconstruct complex skills, maximize productive practice, and remove common learning barriers. By completing just 20 hours of focused, deliberate practice you can pick up the basics in record time, and know more than most people.
I applied the techniques in this book to learning C# and the new E10 Product Configurator when it first came out.
OH… another TOOL that every Epicor Ninja needs is something to make Illustrations with (Flow Charts, logic diagrams, etc)…
a really good free version on the web can be found here: https://www.draw.io/
Especially if you are a consultant, you want to deliver prototypes first, and Balsamiq allows you to create interactive Sketched UI’s so your customer could actually click around and it would spawn different slides.
To me what it has been really helpful is to know Javascript, JQuery and Web development Back end and Front End. So W3Schools has been really helpful. For text editor I use Brackets since it has the Live Preview (we are a strict aerospace industry, so we don’t get much freedom in a lot of stuff).
We have also played with this functionality in Teams. It was a bit confusing depending on whether you were using it within the Teams app or in the browser, but other than that, it seemed to work well (although very basic).
Yeah, there used to be a “Meeting” app in Teams that was very similar but I haven’t seen it in awhile. It was a MS Graph demo app but very good about guiding meetings and, more importantly, sometimes eliminating them!
