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Discussion on: What are the biggest challenges when onboarding and contributing to a new codebase/project?

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Lee

The "new guy" on our team is the entire team. We ask for further explanation of what is to be built, and the documents we're given are riddled with corporate jargon that abstracts the objective so far away that we effectively don't know what to code.

The way we've started tackling this project is to rapidly pump out small versions. Everyday something is sent to higher-ups for feedback. We use that daily feedback to slowly, slowly refine what we're suppose to build