Thanks for commenting ☺️ Indeed, onboarding needs depend on the size of the team, the size of the company and the nature of the business (consultancy vs. product company).
I think people are hesitant to put time and effort to the onboarding because there are always fires to put out and deadlines to meet. But it can pay off long term when the newbie has lower stress levels (boosts learning) and gets faster to the coding mode (at least I learn better with hands-on tasks and seeing things in visual form).
To ease out the onboarding process, the company where I worked had an onboarding Trello board. There was a card with my name on it and it included onboarding steps divided for certain days & weeks that I could do on my own and/or with a buddy. If you need the newbie to be more self-reliant, you still need to show where to find information, from whom to ask help, and what is expected from them - the Trello board could help with this 🙂
I read that Spotify has an onboarding step where they ask for the newbie to create a fun app on their own with the tools and frameworks they have. So preparing easy tasks for the beginning and documenting those steps can save time and effort (long term) plus the newbies gets their hands on the code.
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Thanks for commenting ☺️ Indeed, onboarding needs depend on the size of the team, the size of the company and the nature of the business (consultancy vs. product company).
I think people are hesitant to put time and effort to the onboarding because there are always fires to put out and deadlines to meet. But it can pay off long term when the newbie has lower stress levels (boosts learning) and gets faster to the coding mode (at least I learn better with hands-on tasks and seeing things in visual form).
To ease out the onboarding process, the company where I worked had an onboarding Trello board. There was a card with my name on it and it included onboarding steps divided for certain days & weeks that I could do on my own and/or with a buddy. If you need the newbie to be more self-reliant, you still need to show where to find information, from whom to ask help, and what is expected from them - the Trello board could help with this 🙂
I read that Spotify has an onboarding step where they ask for the newbie to create a fun app on their own with the tools and frameworks they have. So preparing easy tasks for the beginning and documenting those steps can save time and effort (long term) plus the newbies gets their hands on the code.