Junior Developer Foundations Workshop

A structured engagement to design, implement, and operationalise the capability - delivered with clear scope, controlled change, and measurable outcomes.

This service is designed for organisations that need junior developer foundations workshop delivered properly - not just configured, but implemented in a way that is secure, supportable, and aligned to day‑to‑day operations. The difference between “enabled” and “working well” is governance, design decisions, and operational clarity. Without a structured approach, organisations typically end up with inconsistent settings, unclear ownership, and repeated rework.

LW IT Solutions delivers Junior Developer Foundations Workshop as a practical, outcome-led engagement. We confirm scope and prerequisites, implement the required configuration/solution within your governance model, validate outcomes, and provide documentation and handover. Where this overlaps adjacent services in the Adoption, Training & Workshops pillar, we cross‑link rather than duplicate work so your roadmap stays coherent.

Talk through your requirements and leave with a clear next-step plan.

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Service Overview

Highlights

Hands-on workshop delivered virtual or in-person
Core engineering practices for junior developers, focused on daily delivery habits
Git workflow fundamentals including branching, pull requests, and code reviews
Testing basics covering unit tests, test structure, and when to test
API foundations including contracts, error handling, and integration basics
Deployment basics including environments, configuration, and release discipline

Business Benefits

Give junior developers a clear baseline for day-to-day engineering work
Reduce avoidable rework by improving Git discipline, branching, and code review habits
Improve code quality and confidence through practical testing and debugging foundations
Help developers understand how APIs fit together across frontend, backend, and services
Introduce deployment basics so teams can ship changes with fewer surprises

Typical use cases

Graduate and junior developers joining an engineering team
Organisations standardising development practices across multiple teams
Teams seeing repeated issues with Git workflow, reviews, or low test coverage
Developers moving from coursework to real delivery environments
Rapidly growing teams needing a consistent onboarding baseline

Objectives & deliverables

What Success Looks Like

Confirm scope boundaries, prerequisites, and success criteria
Implement the capability safely with appropriate change control
Validate functionality and operational impact
Document configuration and decisions for long-term supportability
Provide a clear next-steps backlog for ongoing improvement

What You Get

Defined scope and success criteria
Implemented capability/configuration within agreed scope
Validation notes and acceptance summary
Documentation/handover notes relevant to the service
Backlog for next-phase improvements (optional)

How It Works

Discovery - confirm team level, target outcomes, and the tools used in your environment
Workshop design - agree agenda, exercises, and examples aligned to your stack and processes
Delivery - run the workshop (virtual or in-person) with hands-on labs and guided practice
Validation - assess understanding through exercises and practical review checkpoints
Handover - provide workshop materials, reference notes, and recommended next steps

Engagement Options

Core Workshop - foundation session covering Git, testing, APIs, and deployment basics
Extended Workshop - add extra time for deeper labs and code review practice
Team Cohort - deliver across multiple junior developer groups with consistent materials
Follow-up Clinic - post-workshop support to review progress and reinforce behaviours

Common Bundles

Customers who use this service often bundle with these services

Adoption Readiness Workshop
Assess adoption readiness through a focused workshop that defines personas, communications, training, champions, and success metrics before rollout.

Migration Planning Workshops
Structured workshops to define migration scope, risks, dependencies, and priorities, producing clear actions and a realistic plan documented.

AI & Automation Workshops
Structured AI and automation workshops to identify, validate, and prioritise use cases, producing a delivery-ready backlog with clear constraints.

Power Platform Workshops
Hands-on Power Platform workshops covering Power Apps, Power Automate, and Dataverse, delivering agreed use cases, governance decisions, and a build backlog.

Security & Compliance Workshops
Interactive workshops covering security and compliance fundamentals, regulatory requirements, risk assessment techniques, and practical controls for consistent organisational understanding.

Documentation Packs & Runbooks
Create professional documentation packs and runbooks that make deployments, migrations and daily operations supportable, auditable and consistent teams.

Monthly Health Checks & Optimisation
Monthly health checks reviewing configuration, performance and security indicators, providing prioritised reporting, tuning actions and roadmap updates for reliable operations.

P1 Incident Management & Security Escalations
On-call P1 incident management providing rapid triage, coordinated escalation, evidence capture, and clear communications until critical services are restored.

Patch & Update Operations (Autopatch/WUfB)
Managed Windows patch and update operations using Autopatch and Windows Update for Business, with rings, reporting and exception handling.

2nd–4th Line Support (On‑Demand or Retainer)
Senior escalation support for complex Microsoft cloud incidents, providing rapid diagnosis, safe remediation, and clear handover through on-demand or retainer models.