Ronan Dunlop at Director of Marketing at (right) and Poornima Vijayashanker, founder of (left) Pivotal Tracker Femgineer Interview with Chris Jobst Senior Software Engineer at Pivotal Labs All this month, I’ve been talking about on-boarding techniques for your new software engineering hires. I started out by talking about , and then moved on to showcase can help ramp up a lot of hires at once. why on-boarding is important how pair and mob programming The next step is to give them a project! Giving a new hire a meaty project can seem like a big risk. Seems easier to have them fix bugs while they ramp up on the code base. But endlessly fixing bugs can be demotivating. If you’re not sure when the right time is to give your new hires a meatier project, then you’ll definitely want to watch today’s Build Tip. Chris Jobst who is a senior software engineer at Pivotal Labs is back to share some tips on how to balance bug fixes with meatier projects. As you watch the episode you’ll learn: Why bug fixing is often a priority, and how to motivate new hires through it Why new hires are in the best position to spot technical debt and tackle it When does it make sense to transition from bug fixes to a project How to structure the project, when new hires are unfamiliar with the code base Why pairing more experienced software engineers on a project with new hires can help new hires level up faster Listen to the episode on iTunes! . You can listen to this episode of on iTunes Build Build is produced as a partnership between and . San Francisco video production by . Femgineer Pivotal Tracker StartMotionMEDIA Enjoyed this post and want more? Help others enjoy it too by hitting the 👏🏽 ! Check out these additional resources on employee on-boarding: Why You Need To Invest In On-boarding A New Software Engineer And Not Expect Them To Ship Code On Their First Day How Pair And Mob Programming Help Quickly Onboard Newly Hired Software Engineers Build is produced as a partnership between Femgineer and Pivotal Tracker . San Francisco video production by StartMotionMEDIA .
