I'm more of a manual guy myself and have become pretty efficient but it only came with experience and coding for a while. How long has she been with your team?
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. >
