http://ghostednotes.com/2007/05/02/A-day-of-software-best-practices The writings of a technology ronin Tue, 12 Apr 2011 22:08:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://ghostednotes.com/2007/05/02/A-day-of-software-best-practices/comment-page-1#comment-10 DaveHo Thu, 03 May 2007 00:00:00 +0000 http://ghostednotes.com/2007/05/02/A-day-of-software-best-practices#comment-10 I am currently living the two items you pointed out in this article. 1. While I am by no means an "expert" developer, I have gotten to where I can figure out a software solution for a client problem pretty quickly. But for most of the work I do it is following the same kinds of development tasks, and truly "new" development is few and far between. 2. I'm a one-man band here at my job: UI, graphics, database, processes, QA & testing, application design. I'm a jack-of-all-trades, master of none, so to have colleagues with specific strengths would be nice, but its a true luxury. And in true Socratic fashion, I know exactly what I DON'T do well, and would benefit from a team environment. During my current HR development plan evaluation, a big theme was to develop real processes for my job, and to improve my management skills. Something like this (though seemingly intimidating for a non-management guy like myself) might be helpful to those ends. Thanks for sharing it! I am currently living the two items you pointed out in this article.
1. While I am by no means an "expert" developer, I have gotten to where I can figure out a software solution for a client problem pretty quickly. But for most of the work I do it is following the same kinds of development tasks, and truly "new" development is few and far between.
2. I’m a one-man band here at my job: UI, graphics, database, processes, QA & testing, application design. I’m a jack-of-all-trades, master of none, so to have colleagues with specific strengths would be nice, but its a true luxury. And in true Socratic fashion, I know exactly what I DON’T do well, and would benefit from a team environment.
During my current HR development plan evaluation, a big theme was to develop real processes for my job, and to improve my management skills. Something like this (though seemingly intimidating for a non-management guy like myself) might be helpful to those ends. Thanks for sharing it!

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