Onboarding new joiners
The use caseOnboarding new joiners
Let new engineers and managers learn why the system works the way it does, without waiting on colleagues.
- Start here
Why new engineers take months to be useful, and what the wiki doesn't tell them
A new hire can read the code on day one. What takes months is learning which odd-looking rules are deliberate, and the people who know are the ones answering the same questions again.
- Engineering
Your engineers spend most of their time understanding, not building
Field studies and developer surveys agree. The bottleneck is not writing code, it is finding out why the code is the way it is.
- Research
Why documentation goes stale, and what to do instead
Documentation is written once and silently drifts. Records that know when they are out of date work differently.