[wccrawford]

In addition to that, answering questions is training.

Sometimes this happens directly, but quite often it's during daily "standups" (which we do sitting, via video, and it's as much socialization as work) we often talk about problems that people are having and give them suggestions. This tends to be most helpful to novice programmers, but we all benefit from it sometimes.

And assigning reasonable tickets is training, too. We also start out our junior programmers with easy bugfix tickets and give them plenty of time to explore the code, answering a ton of questions. Then we give them gradually larger projects as they show they can handle them.