On The Road to Being a Better Developer

<p>Everyone wants to be good in what he’s doing — that’s human nature, that’s how we’re raised. The key is constant improvement without being disappointed by small failures and bumps on the way. In the last 10 years, I’ve been working as a developer and I feel I’ve learned a lot of valuable lessons — many of which can be applied to other areas of life and work. Let me share my lessons with you, dear reader.</p> <h1>Lesson #1 — See the big picture</h1> <p>It’s very easy to get lost in details, focus on small things and lose vision. The whole is always more than the sum of its parts. Even if you’re only a rookie coder, try to look for other aspects of your projects — business, social, whatever those aspects might be. When you’re working as a professional, coding is not l’art pour l’art anymore — it has a reason and a goal.</p> <p>The goal is never ‘completing coding tasks’. It is the same thing as the concept of ‘done done’ in agile development — a project is only done when it is tested, accepted, goes live, tested in the wild again and regressions are fixed. The final test is rarely technical but rather has more to do with management and concepts like profit, brand building, and customer/user satisfaction. To be successful in this manner, you must always have the global vision of the project in sight.</p> <p><a href="https://levelup.gitconnected.com/on-the-road-to-being-a-better-developer-ff4d3bde4075">Visit Now</a></p>