Marcus Blankenship article in which he focuses on onboarding process in software companies. He rightly points out that setting up a productive dev environment isn’t onboarding.
Today, my clients tell me things like,“we use Docker, so it takes less than an hour to onboard a new developer.”
We might fall into the trap of believing that we have done our part to make them successful, and the rest is up to them. That all they need is a computer, chair, a dev environment, and a project to work on.
He then goes on and dives in:
- A leadership smell
- Onboarding is leading
- How long should this take?
Good article which should get you thinking about your onboarding process and what could be improved.
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