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Dave

My win, was that 9 days after hiring 2 juniors they (despite never talking to each other before employment with us):

  • completed a Greenfield project, devising their own work strategy, test coverage, approach to several problems and "team" communication style. All with zero input from me. The code was good enough that other than nit picking at a few typos, I couldn't fault it, and it made me smile to read it.
  • Succesfully delivered 2 bug fixes (before being included in a Sprint), including learning our development kit.
  • Succesfully participated in their first Sprint Planning.

When I hired them, considering one has never worked as a dev, I told PMO "don't expect to even be talking to them for a month after they start."

Boy, do I look daft. 🙂