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Add a second developer to the team

In my company, I’m the only developer, but we plan on expanding the team by hiring a second programmer. I know there are a lot of implications to that (especially around source control). I’ve Googled a lot, but haven’t found a good tutorial/article on how to grow the team from one to many developers.

What is the structure of a team developing a computer game? [closed]

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How to structure a development team

I am the manager of a team of 11 software developers who look after my company’s web sites / web applications, running up to 4 concurrent projects plus day-to-day support at any time. Within the 11 developers there is a mixture of technical skills, job titles and experience, although the team structure is flat with all 11 developers reporting directly to me.

Creating an in-house single source software development team

Our company wants to create a single department for all software development efforts (rather than having software development managed by each business unit). Business units would then “outsource” their software needs to this department. What would you setup as concerns/expectations that must be cleared before doing this? For example:

Is it fair to ask a team to start using CoffeeScript?

I started my new job as a JS developer in November and starting implementing Backbone pretty soon after. This was a big enough learning curve for the team (me included), however I’m thinking about looking at CoffeeScript, which I’m guessing would require everyone on the team to know it? Is that too big of an ask, just to make me slightly more productive?