EURA NOVA Onboarding Checklist

README.md

Introduction

This is a checklist we use @ EURA NOVA to onboard our freshly hired developers. Depending on the developer's experience and skills, the mentor adapt the checklist accordingly

Methodology

• length: 3 months
• read Welcome Book for development
• mandatory participation in dev workshops and similar
• interact with ad-hoc mentor
• select a project
• track learning process with checklist

Note: if developer is at a client's, mentor should work for the same client if possible.

Checklist

• work with Gitlab
  • development workflow
  • project management workflow
  • CI
  • code review
  • git
• work with Docker
  • locally
  • on CI
• work with ad-hoc development environment
  • editor / IDE
  • environment (setup, maintenance, ...)
  • documentation
• learn good communication practices
  • EURA NOVA communication tools (Knowledge Plaza, Mattermost, Gitlab, Hangouts, BlueJeans, IRL)
  • when to use what?
  • how to communicate efficiently?
• be able to tackle a problem
• show teamwork
• take ownership of solutions / understand the responsibility involved in shipping
• produce quality work (EURA NOVA standards of quality)
  • use TDD
  • use pair programming
  • use conventions of language/framework/team
  • participate in continuous improvement initiatives (dev workshops, etc.)
• understand our way of working (roughly agile)

Final objective: allow the person to be active on a project from day 1.