"Junior" Devs are the Solution to Many of Your Problems
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Claim: hiring and onboarding Early-career Software Developers shortens time to first value and boosts team capacity. Concrete steps: open a Jira/GitHub ticket, have an experienced engineer rebuild the app from scratch, land a README PR, pair the new hire with a mentor, add seeds or Docker as needed, record an app walkthrough (Wistia or similar), and save a representative PR/commit for practice. Measured result: onboarding can drop from two weeks to one and conservatively save about $3,000 per hire. This is minimum viable buy-in.
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- 0:00Start
- 3:19The software development industry on "Junior" Developers
- 4:16Updated Title: Early-Career Software Developers are the Solution to Many of Your Problems
- 9:571. Finding the right problems 2. Identifying Solutions 3. Getting organizational buy-in
- 16:21Increases the capacity of the entire team
- 16:51A Hypothetical Example: "Junior Developers Take Too Long to Onboard"
- 18:12Lets solve this time-to- onboard problem
- 19:38Minimum Viable Buy-In
- 22:10Use ECSDs to improve the onboarding
- 32:09Onboarding "extensions"
- 38:14Better Onboarding = Better Understanding of the DSL
- 39:38you* deal with this pain already
- 41:54how do you/your company/ your team benefit?
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