Your company has its own way of doing things, and a good hire knows that. There might be a company induction, but what about any specific engineering standards? Or team ways of working?

In some organisations we have taken on a cohort of people at the same time in order to run a group training session, for example when I was at Laterooms they brought in Kevin Rutherford to run some training with us, we later had him run his XP Surgery at Co-op which was excellent! In my last year at Co-op I brought in Mark Kirschstein to run a two week training course with our newly hired cohort to immerse them in remote mob programming, a test driven approach and engineering design. This also helped build relationships with people outside the team.

• Ways of working
• Behaviours and standards
• Rotate existing hires through taking people through this to keep it fresh
• Link to performance to keep it relevant and fresh
• Mentoring and coaching
  • Because these are skills you hone with practice