Ancient City Ruby-The Junior Jump

A talk I gave in March 2015 about transitioning new engineers into a production environment.

Transcript

1. The Junior Jump @RebeccaPoulson
3. Investing in junior engineers is investing in a future where you don’t have to work with weird jerks whose code you hate.
4. The 3 P’s of Onboarding • Planning • Projects • Pairing
5. Planning
6. Spoiler Alert: It’s all planning
7. Planning
8. What kind of resources do you need to succeed here?
10. Ask how your candidate learns best. Work together to build a strategy around that.
11. Things You Can Offer/Ask For • conferences • books • face time • time to not feel guilty about not doing project work • transcripts • recaps
12. Get your documentation game on point--- “Ask the guy who wrote it,” --is not on point.
14. Projects
15. You now have a Round Tuit
16. Exciting Stuff With Lots of Supervision
17. Really boring stuff that fosters independence
18. The Admin Tool
19. API Integration with Chilling Effects
20. Pairing
21. Lower the Cost of Asking Questions (Yes, you need a formal mentorship program)
22. - We like this person. Do we have the bandwidth and resources to support her? - What kind of training can we offer our experienced devs so that they might become better mentors? - How can we help our new hire be a better mentee
23. Time Is a Valid Resource 90s90s90s.tumblr.com
24. Ideally, you want to be U2...
25. A Bono
27. An Edge
28. One of these men is Larry Mullin...
29. To Recap….
30. Planning
31. Projects
32. Pairing
33. Empower yourself to be Larry Mullen