XP and Junior Developers: 7 Mistakes (and how to avoid them)

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.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: AGILEDC
• Authors: Richard Lawrence
• Keywords: Agile Projects, AGILEDC 2007, Junior Team, Software Engineering, XP Practices