It helps me see the positive results of each action I take to invest in myself in the pursuit of excellence. The author has used his real-life experience within the Software Industry and guides the reader on how to achieve excellence in software development. He explains how he entered the software industry after being a musician, and how the things that he learned in his life when he was a musician have helped him become a skilled software professional. This theme carries throughout the book, everything that you do in your life gives you experience and lessons which can be applied to almost any field.
If you want to develop software which in turn makes human life easier, you have to be in love with it, and if you are in love with it, you will find ways to improve your skill-set. This will help you achieve excellence over your time in software development, and you will have a remarkable career in this field.
Everybody wants to be successful in their lives. For a person in the software industry, what does it take to be a successful developer? The author has conveyed this very well through his writing and experience. In this book, he has outlined various situations that a person may face when he is part of this industry and how he can perform really well in any situation by maintaining his confidence.
This is an amazing read for anyone who wants to do well in their career in software development. The main focus is on considering yourself as a product in this competitive market. If you want to do really well in this business, and sell yourself really well, here are the things you must do to make sure you are meeting the needs of the market. The book is divided in to 5 parts: 1. Investing in Your Product — You are not naturally gifted, you have to put in the effort to build yourself per the needs of your market.
Executing — If you are ready after choosing your market and have invested in yourself now is the time to execute. You might not understand everything but just write down questions and keep at it. The next step is to execute, be a great employee, amazing team member, just as awesome at your job as you can be. This is different than just improving your skills and knowledge. They care about the value you are adding to your business. The skills and knowledge you have are just the tools you can use to bring that value, the tools you can use to contribute towards something the company actually wants.
Think about it this way: There are hundreds of reasons you would be fired from a job, even if you were the most talented programmer in the office. Think about the last time a waiter took too long to bring your dish. In sports, the best players never panic. In television the heroes never panic. Try to keep things in perspective. I can honestly say no. So they get frustrated and just start blindly clicking any and all settings buttons then can find, before finally giving up and calling you.
You would never do that right? Because you know all that clicking just makes things 10x worse. You know if you were in that situation, you would read the error messages, google solutions, read the buttons and prompts before clicking and then figure out whats wrong. Think about how much better it would be for you to not panic and make things worse, but instead carefully and calmly work it out, just like you would if your parents had a computer problem. One final suggestion Chad made is a way to avoid failure all together.
We want to say yes because we want to please our boss. But it actually does the opposite. Saying yes and not meeting the deadline will make your boss way more mad.
The reason your boss hates this so much is because when you tell him you can do something, he is also telling his boss what his team will be able to deliver. And when you fail to deliver to your boss, he fails to deliver to his. Except his boss is much higher up, you might be making your boss look like a failure in front of the CTO! Saying no is good because that means when you say yes it actually means something.
But it was basically just saying that you need to let people know when you do well. Technology moves incredibly fast. There was a time when jQuery was the latest and greatest. Can you imaging how hard it would be to find a job if that was your top selling point now? Book Breakdowns. Home Posts Newsletter. Invest in Your Product - Now that you know what skills will be most valuable now and in the future.
Improve your skills in these areas. Take advantage of your skills by delivering value to your company. Repeat - Maintain your edge, repeat this cycle to stay on the top of your game and allow stay on a career path you actually want, instead of just going where it takes you. For example: If you need a dev environment do you just ask the devOps team to set it up for you?
Source control, do you know how it works Your framework or language features, do you know how they work?
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