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Probation Objectives:

• Rotation Calendar
• Checklists:
  • Customer Service Report
  • Personal Development Plan
  • Process Best Practice Report
  • Competencies
  • Books
  • Public Code Review (Demonstrate development best practice)
  • Deployment Pipeline (Integrate a build and deployment pipeline)
  • Misc
• PCR:
• End Of Bootcamp Presentation:
• Rotations
• Probation meetings:
• Document:

Document signed and sent off to HR on <2026-01-15 Thu>

Rotation Calendar

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
• Headfirst into Design Patterns
• 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

PCR:

<2026-01-08 Thu>

End Of Bootcamp Presentation:

<2026-01-13 Tue>

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. <2026-01-12 Mon>

Document: