14 questions a new developer to a team should ask?

The first week of joining a new group can be quite intimidating especially if it does not document the development process on a Wiki. These are the list of questions that a new member joining a team should ask and a development group should be willing to provide answers for. The following process should be clear to a team member within the first two weeks of starting.

  1. Know all the members in your team and the role they play
  2. How to run the software
  3. Have some basic knowledge of the domain
  4. Which database is being used
  5. What are the languages being used for development
  6. What libraries and frameworks are used.
  7. What is the version of all the components used for development
  8. How to build the code
  9. How to run the code in a debugger
  10. How to use the version control system and make a simple change to the code
  11. How to test the code
  12. How to submit the code
  13. How to use the enhancement and bug tracking system
  14. How to connect remotely from home

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