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Pair the "junior" developers with the ones that you are more happy with and have them learn productive habits through collaboration and observation?
by cronin101 12y ago
Pair the "junior" developers with the ones that you are more happy with and have them learn productive habits through collaboration and observation?
- DanBC 12y agoKill the productivity of the good workers? EDIT: People mention the need for continuous development. That's lovely, but it's wrong to think that putting unproductive workers with productive workers will somehow transform the productive workers into effective trainers or help the unproductive workers become productive. What you've done in added distraction to your productive worker's flow. It's not their role to train other staff and they are possibly going to resent this new -unpaid- addition to their workload.
- karmajunkie 12y agoAnd raise the overall productivity of the team. A good manager is able to get the most out of the team they're given, and yes,sometimes that means showing down part of the team so everyone can pull together.
- Raphmedia 12y agoYes, you will cut a part of development time and turn it into education time. Then, you end up with 4 good workers.
- wil421 12y agoIf the senior devs can help mentor the junior ones then at some point you could have 3 or 4 productive devs instead of just 2. Not saying take away a big part of the day but maybe a 1/2 hour or hour long meeting every morning to get the junior guys on track. Sometimes people need development to become productive members.
- johnatwork 12y agoIt's a long term investment. Of course the worst case scenario is that the developers leave afterwards.
- sarciszewski 12y agoIf you train them, the risk is that they leave. If you don't, the risk is that they stay.
- sukilot 12y agoWhose role is it to train them? What happens when the superstar wants to change projects?