While at this year's Plone Conference, I presented a short slot on the experiences of our team while working on an internal project using the Plone platform. We'd deliberately used the project as a learning experience for some of our more junior team members, who had a technical background but no Python programming knowledge.
What we found, as people 'fresh' to the platform, is that Plone has plentiful end-user documentation (quite a lot more than is available for some commercial CMS), and if you've got a Python background then the developer documentation is incredibly helpful, but that there's perhaps a gap in the middle where non-Python savvy integrator types can occasionally fall.
From my time at the conference, it seems like this gap is closing from a technology viewpoint, as some of the activities you'd expect a configuration-minded person to do (e.g. site theming, creation and editing of content types) are becoming less developer-oriented, starting with Plone 4 which is now available (but wasn't at the time we started doing this project).
The presentation slides can be accessed here and there's also a recording of the presentation here.
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