Crack the Communication Code – Onboarding Your New Development Staff

Cortex Leadership Consulting has developed a training program for onboarding new development staff to your organization utilizing proven methods that close the normal communication gap between mentor/trainer and the new hire.   The techniques used help build culture, teach and quickly help participants practice your organization’s proprietary processes.

The Cortex method is derived from years of executive, leadership, and technology team coaching and has been successfully applied to development teams large and small.  It leverages a discovery process within the client’s existing framework for the following:

– corporate vision, mission, values, and passion

– development team vision, mission, values, and passion

– industry best practices

– development team culture and best practices

– steeped in agile / lean methodologies

– existing training materials

– existing backlog of features and bugs

It leverages course intellectual property and materials from Cortex Leadership and Consulting:

– Leadership / Collaboration

– Communication / Language

– Mentoring / Coaching

– Culture / Trust Building

It is packaged neatly to deliver:

– immersion into corporate and team culture and best practices

– consistent communications, process, procedure, and execution foundation

– introduction to current data structures and source code

– new developers ready / able to hit the ground running at the end

– exposure to processes, policies and procedures

– quick identification of rising stars

– repeatable training context for the next batch

Additional outcomes may include:

– long standing projects tackled

– low hanging fruit developed and delivered

– if we are lucky, an ask by the current dev teams to go through the training

Quick Outline (tailored to client requirements):

– Team Communications

– Questions and Statements

– Programming Foundations

– Data Types and Data Validation

– Objects

– Industry Best Practices

– Languages, Compilers, Design Patterns

– Agile / Lean / Kanban

– TDD and Unit Tests

– Code Reviews

– Continuous Integration

– QA and Feedback

– Intro to Architecture

– Intro to Security

– Intro to Data Structures

– Intro to Web Services and Micro-Services

– Intro to UI/UX design and development

Offering also includes (where appropriate):

– Role Play

– Tabletop Exercises

– Agile Games and Exercises

– Rewards for recurring behavior