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XP and Junior Developers: 7 Mistakes (and how to avoid them)
Richard Lawrence (Avanade)
Experience Reports · Other
Wednesday, 08:30, 1 hour 30 minutes | Congressional Hall B
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In two years of leading agile projects at Avanade, an organization heavy in recent college hires, I've learned a number of lessons about how to be successful with junior developers on an agile team. Indeed, my most successful team has been my most junior. I discovered that my biggest mistakes with junior teams were related to partially adopting XP. Where a senior team, by virtue of its experience, can adapt to replace missing XP practices, a junior team reveals the extent to which the XP practices form a whole and are best adopted together.
