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Interns: Taking off the training wheels

My intern team has been working for several weeks now on our new website. We have already completed one deployment to production and are finalizing our second one. We started with a plan to release often adding small bits of functionality as we go and so far that plan has been working really well. We already feel like we have accomplished a lot because we have completed many of our project's requirements and should easily be able to complete the rest giving us time to do even more than just the original requirements.

One of the things I have had some difficulty balancing has been how much to lead the interns and how much to let them figure out on their own. In deciding what our team process should be and how we should allocate our time, I think it was important for me to do more leading. I saw some deficiencies in how we were currently working and brought up some ideas for how we could address them. We had moved into spending all our time just working through stories and did not have any dedicated time for learning. We decided that spending an hour or so in the morning for individual learning and an hour or so after lunch to team learn would help us continue to grow and have plenty of time to get work done.

I had another opportunity where I think letting the interns decide was better than leading them in a specific direction. We had been mentoring with a lot of direct involvement in how to code our stories and solve the problems we encountered. Due to a company event, all of the mentors were away from the office for the day and the interns were left to work on their own. This day allowed them to see that they could work together without our direct guidance and solve their own problems while also learning more. They unanimously wanted to continue that path of working more on their own with us as resources to help them when they got stuck. I could have suggested we take this approach as well, but having them come to that realization on their own was a better decision.

Now I have shifted more into finding opportunities to give focused training when I have seen a need. All of the interns have a good basic understanding of what they are doing and how to solve their problems, so I can give them some more advanced direction. One thing I have focused on is clean coding practices. We had a fairly complex section of code that filtered a list of data based on multiple points of that data. They were able to come up with a working solution on their own, but it was very procedural and fairly difficult to understand it all as one unit. I guided them in taking that working code and breaking it apart into smaller methods that were easier to understand in isolation. They all enjoyed this refactoring and I don't think they would have learned as much about why you want to have clean code than if we had directed them in writing it that way in the first place.

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