This is what I've been trying to do this past week. Yeah I reckon I must be bombarding her - I'll ease up a bit.
Thanks On 19 July 2016 at 16:16, DotNet Dude <[email protected]> wrote: > I'd prioritise the most productive tools/keystrokes in terms of > productivity and have her do some pair programming. You or someone else who > sits with her can occasionally ask her to use some shortcuts. Just don't > bombard her with shortcuts as she won't absorb them. One or two per pair > session should help a lot. > > On Tuesday, 19 July 2016, Preet Sangha <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Guys I wonder if I can ask for some advice please. >> >> I'm currently leading a project with a developer who originally came from >> a Delphi background but has been using visual studio (C++ and C#) for a few >> years now. However I'm finding that she doesn't seem to have much >> experience of many of the productivity features available in modern tools >> like visual studio, or the OS or office for instance. >> >> >> By these I mean even simple things like autoformating, intellisense (well >> some), keystrokes to comment/uncomment, snippets, or refactoring for >> instance. I even had to teach her to do auto build on starting execution >> (PF5 etc), or to use the keyboard to save or build. Things like resharper >> are a pipe dream it seems. I felt as though I was doing magic incantations >> when I started writing some unit tests... Nearly everything she does is >> sort of 'most manual way possible" it sometimes seems. >> >> Now generally I'm happy to let other do it their way but I find that her >> productivity is very low and I'm thinking part of it might be this factor. >> I know we all have different styles, and I'm far from dictating other use >> my style however I do feel that a modern developer should be aware of the >> capabilities of their development environments. If her productivity was OK >> I wouldn't care how she used whatever tool. >> >> What I'd like to do is encourage her to do some directed training that >> would help her productivity and thus personal development. I've tried >> putting together some Pluralsight (it's paid for by our employers so it's >> always there) playlists for her, but I get the "I did some of the training, >> and then stopped to get some work done". I've been more than happy for her >> to actually do the courses lowering the workload for this reason. >> >> I'd really like her to get the best out of her tools and not be >> hamstrung. Can anyone with experience of this kind of thing tell how how >> perhaps I could approach this in a more positive way please? >> >> Preet. >> >
