Application Web : Empowered Game
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In a domain where many keep their kid heart, what can we say about the industry maturity? Even if software development is a young discipline, we have seen a lot of practice changes and improvements in the last 10 years. One of the big steps in my opinion is that we now acknowledged that change is part of our daily job. It has made the industry search for better managing and processing ways. Other discipline paradigms have been observed, duplicated and adapted to our context. That has made our body of knowledge growth and new ways of doing things emerge.
I personally think that we are a people business, our industry require motivated people willing to work as a team to get results. That’s the reason why it’s more and more important to consider the human aspects more than the technical aspects. It’s also a society tendency: people desire more human jobs. Team that will succeed will be those who understand that fact and act in this way by caring about employee, team synergy and ensuring it’s an applied value by everyone.
Agile Architecture – conference resume
What I liked about that conference is that it presented a good summary of the hole DevTeach event, by presenting a little of every main concerns and ideas raised in the other conferences. You can follow Mario on his talk show (French).
In your opinion, what are the other emerging concerns and ideas in software engineering?
Who doesn’t have a cellphone? I’m sure there aren’t many hands standing in the air. More and more devices of many kinds are now in the hands of the population. Many new ways to interact with our daily activities through technologies emerge. The question is no more should I do something, it is what can I do to follow this tendency?
We have to understand first what this new market is. For many company it’s a big paradigm shift since web sites developed in the past weren’t made to support the current reality. We have to change our way of thinking and addressing the problem. As Erik Renault mention in his conference at DevTeach, we have to think about the context before designing an application since capabilities, purpose and user experience won’t be the same in all cases.
For example in the context of a trip, with your cellphone you may want to find the closest restaurant or take pictures and tag them with the location where they were taken, while with your tablet you may want to read about the history of the city you’re visiting or write notes about your trip. Afterwards, with your desktop you may want to review your trip and present a diorama of the pictures taken with notes associated on your TV.
Here’s my note’s summary of Erik Renault presentation at DevTeach:
Summary of Erik Renault presentation
I recently went to dev teach Montréal 2011 and read a lot about agility and what came out recently as more and more emergent is discussions regarding Scrum VS Kanban and other software engineering best practices and toolboxes. Scrum is being seen as a revolution that is not always suitable in all context (strong hierarchy company, maintenance project, …) while Kanban is seen as a continuous flow methodology seen more as an evolutionary approach more easy to implement and best suited for maintenance. We also see emerge combinations of both methods.
Here’s a mind map of the notes I took at Joel Semeniuk’s conference at devteach Montréal 2011. He his a Microsoft Regional President, MVP, CSM and CSP.
A Dash of Kanban – Conference resume
Being able to develop software today is more applying best-practices than being knowledgeable in a specific technology. Why? Maybe because technology evolve so fast that it’s better to understand principles than technicality. Obviously a minimum of technical skills and experiences are required to perform best.
This makes university degree workers and autodidact people more interesting employees, since they are open to change and apply best practices. Many call it Software Development Maturity or Software Engineering Culture which is link to a way of thinking and a continuous desire to improve and be aware of new ideas in the industry.
Here’s a list of what I consider be essential knowledge for today’s developers.
We are all humans… Yes we are! As such we have needs and abilities we should respect. Software development was often considered as a nebulous science where people are resources that can be interchanged. Well we learned, sometime the hard way, which it’s not the case, some people achieve better with specific “people skills” that support and healthy team and we should encourage more these behaviours.
Here’s a list of developer people skills:
As anything in life, you will have to work to get results. First you can participate in communities of your area (ex: Communauté .NET Montréal, Agile Montréal), you can listen to podcasts (ex: Visual Studio Talk Show, Vox Agile) or event read about emergent architectures (ex: CQRS => Greg Young Blog post, Another Greg Young Blog post, Julien Letrouit’s Blog). Try to become a better team player, ask yourself what you can do to be more efficient in your context.
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