#+TITLE: Probation Objectives:
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#+DATE: <2025-12-08 Mon 17:55> 
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#+SLUG: probation-objectives

* Checklists:
** Customer Service Report
- Introduction
- Service Desk Experience
- Customer Experience
- Lessons Learnt
- Conclusion

** Personal Development Plan
- Create a SWOT
- Create a Personal Development Plan with SMART objectives
- Include strengths and weaknesses of your team role
- Define short-, medium-, and long-term objectives
- Keep traction on the competency tasks and dashboard

** Process Best Practice Report
- Introduction
- Lean Overview
- Software Development Overview
- Lessons Learnt
- Conclusion

** Competencies
- +20% End of Nov+
- 20% End of Dec
- 20% End of Jan

** Books
- +The Toyota Way+
- +The Clean Coder+
- +Clean Code+
- Agile Testing (in progress)
- Headfirst into Design Patterns (in progress)
- Code Complete 2
- Working Effectively with Legacy Code

** Public Code Review (Demonstrate development best practice)
- Training on appropriate languages (C#, PHP Laravel, JavaScript, SQL, PowerShell, NUnit, PHPUnit, Jest, tSQLt, pester)
- Read books and do training on development best practices (SOLID, Design Patterns, Continuous Monitoring, TDD, BDD, CI/CD)
- Training around Requirements (Feature writing, User Story writing, Task writing, User Story Mapping, Low Fidelity UI Designs)
- Daily Kata’s and regular Dojo’s
- Present software developed by the team in a Public Code Review

** +Deployment Pipeline (Integrate a build and deployment pipeline)+
- Implement a TFS build and deployment pipeline with pester tests
- Implement and maintain CI/CD
- Continuously monitor environments daily
- Build and/or maintain an environment using PowerShell, Vagrant, Ansible, and/or Terraform

** Misc
- DevOps Skills for Developers with VS and TFS
- Getting Started with Ansible
- Introduction to Versioning Environments with Vagrant
- Terraform – Getting Started

* Rotations
Rotations start on: <2026-01-14 Wed>

* Probation meetings:
1. <2025-11-06 Thu>
2. <2025-12-11 Thu> -> Got pushed to <2025-12-15 Mon>
3.

* Document:

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