How to Learn Software Development Faster

How to Learn Software Development Faster

How to Learn Software Development Faster

Taking notes while programming software

Essential Takeaways:

  • Rushing doesn’t make us faster or more efficient; it increases anxiety and distracts focus. We need focus, efficiency, and creativity.
  • Hire individuals with improved skills, work together, train together, and learn from each other to increase professionalism and enhance craftsmanship for your enterprise.
  • Boost the variation of your team and the efficiency of your processes by performing programming and testing regularly, collecting and analyzing data, and removing waste.
  • With an outstanding codebase, you can be rich. Push down flaws, focus on testing and refactoring, and prioritize design.
  • Working software doesn’t have to be poorly crafted. Excellent professionals can build the software, and only excellent software allows you to build better than ever.

Moving without direction can be the enemy of software development. The three areas where you need to slow down are the product, process, and our own people. Let me start with a story before digging into the details.

I suppose it was 2011. I joined a team responsible for building an internet marketing and promotion platform. My responsibility was to add features to the system. I was a developer. We call developers “senior” when they can grow faster than others, right? When I joined, we found it was impossible to proceed due to design debt and issues. At every attempt, we found the complexity increased and destroyed the quality. It seemed the only approach to gear up was to rewrite the system.

I remember I suggested we needed to rewrite the system and called the product manager. After 30 minutes of silence on the phone, the product manager responded, “You are saying your team wrote your product so poorly that the same team has to rewrite the same product but better this time. Right? Man, it is unacceptable.”

 

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