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Discussion on: How do you approach working with juniors working their first professional programming job?

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Frank Carr

The approach I've used is to start out by giving them training spikes. Spikes are usually timeboxed to 2-3 days. For example, the spike might be study a set of stored procedures in XYZ database and prepare X number of discussion questions about them for the senior developer(s). This would be followed up with a mentoring/pairing session. The idea is to get them acclimated to the development process, collaboration and cadence of the team. This allows them to be able to participate in stand-ups and sets up a mentoring and communication process with more senior developers.