Stretch work assignments are tasks or projects that are a bit beyond an engineer’s current skill or knowledge level and that allow them to improve and learn new things. When done correctly these assignments serve a dual purpose of providing learning opportunities for your engineers, while at the same time completing a project or task that will help your company. The post Using stretch work assignments to help engineers grow appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.
https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/08/16/using-stretch-work-assignments-to-help-engineers-grow/
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