Chapter 13 is about the culture of learning. In this chapter, the author says that junior developers are lead to believe becoming a manager or architect is their natural career progression, but it all depends on what the developer likes, if they truly have a passion for programming they can always progress to a … More The Software Craftsman Chapters 13 and 14
Chapter 11 is about interview anti-patterns. it talks about the interviewing practices that tend to lead to the wrong candidates being hired. One of the things that this chapter mentions is to not make yourself look smarter than the person that you are interviewing. You want to seem like you are their equal. Even though … More The Software Craftsman Chapters 11 and 12
Chapter 9 is about recruitment. The author mentions how it is crucial for any software company to hire the best developers, and how this is hard to find sometimes. It also goes into detail explaining a typical job description and points out all the areas in which it can go wrong. When recruiters are looking … More The Software Craftsman Chapters 9 and 10
Chapter 7 is about Technical practices. This chapter focuses on a variety of technical practices and goes into how useful hey are. It also talks about the right thing versus the thing right. A large section of it is about Extreme programming. Test Driven development, continuous integration, pair programming and refactoring are all important … More The Software Craftsman Chapters 7 and 8
Chapter 5 is about heroes, goodwill and professionalism. One of this chapters focuses is the idea of learning how to say no. The author tells a couple stories about how a manager was always pushing for more rather than working with his developers and how that was a unhealthy work environment. Part of being a software craftsman is being in … More The Software Craftsman Chapters 5 and 6
Chapter 3 is about software craftsmanship. Software craftsmanship is a long term journey to mastery. It is a mindset where software developers chose to be responsible for their own careers. This means that they have to learn new tools in order to stay competitive. It is not test driven development, clean code, or specific technologies. This chapter … More The Software Crafstman Chapters 3 and 4
Chapter 1 is about software development in the twenty first century. In the beginning of the chapter the author talks about how you should let your passion determine what you are going to do for your career. He also mentions that just because you have been programming for a long time, doesn’t mean your … More The Software Crafstman Chapters 1 and 2
Unfortunately we were not able to get a push successfully committed. We all were working on our issues after we got assigned them but none of us actually managed to resolve an issue due to a couple things. The button issue was put at a halt because the button stopped working properly for us, so … More Reflection Sprint 6
We now have 3 issues to work on. We still have the button problem where they want us to move it to a different location, a new problem that they want us to change the color of the patient banner depending on whether or not they are deceased, and another new issue to notify the … More Reflection Sprint 5
This sprint was a little bit tricky because it was right in the middle of spring break, and people were off doing their own things. We did however fix the button issue using the guidelines that were provided with us. We pushed the changes and are now waiting for them to accept it. As of … More Reflection Sprint 4
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