Self appraisal - Note to Self and Team

Always ensure you can improve upon, Your next version better than your current version

• Predictability of tasks, How well our estimates and actuals
• Completeness and quality speak for it
• 80% thinking where all it fails, scalability, Design, and 20% ensuring you code all possible scenarios.

Keep Learning!!!

Productivity

Writing working code vs testing possible scenarios, code working as intended vs actual behavior, and Learning tech vs being skillful needs practice/clarity and awareness.

• Task vs Sub tasks vs Experiments, How predictable planning vs actual work
• Code Quality vs Bugs in real workflows
• Documenting it / Possible Scenarios.
• Developer unit testing vs functional testing  

As you move up, you will keep learning, but every tech has pros and cons.

• Code With Clarity, Code with Customer point of View!!!
• Working code vs Performance Scaling!!!
• Works for 80% of cases!!!
• Memory Efficient!!!

How many iterations to get to the best version vs How much you think ahead decides developer maturity!!!

From link

Learn faster than your competition.
Empathize with customers more than your competition.
Communicate more effectively than your competition.
Be willing to fail more than your competition.
Wait longer than your competition.

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Question the Team / Yourself to understand Value of Delivery / Interests ?

Taking inspiration from link 

1. Cult of speed in the first 3-4 weeks - Have something useful for customers :) in every sprint
2. Ability to recover quickly from failures, Acknowledge and move on, Transparent
3. Create a culture of 'disagree and commit', Bring in complete perspective 
4. Are you working efficiently? Self-critical?
5. How much time do you spend on low ROI activities? Spot and remove barriers
6. How much time do you spend trying to figure out what to work on?
7. Are people working on projects that play to their strengths?

Keep Thinking!!!

Good Read - Hybrid WHF = Productivity

 

Keep Thinking!!!

Feedback / Retrospect your work / Quality of Your Work

• How many problems did we solve in the past 2 weeks?
• How many problems have similar issues / same solutions applicable?
• Did we think of the consequences when we fixed it?
• Are we over short of thinking / biased for deadlines?
• Did the fixes meaningfully add value or overhead?
• How realistically do we rate the quality of solutions
• Did we do enough homework on options or our thinking is limited?
• How much testing we did do?
• Did we call out the flaws and be transparent about output / next steps?

Productivity is not about being engaged its about value delivered :)

Keep Thinking!!!

Scrutinize, Prioritize, Focus

Invisible Trap of Time wasters

• Inescapable Internet / Constant Content Engagement / Content amplification Systems
• Inescapable Youtube / Whatsapp / Facebook / Telegram / Instagram / TV
• Content for all age group / genders
• Crave for new content every day - Programmed by Constant Usage
• End up consuming more unwanted content and less quality content

Reality

• We have limited time
• Picking the right items to focus
• Deep Dive Engagement 
• Iterations of Learning
• Focus, Build your perspectives

Think Again

• Employed vs Employable both are different
• Expertise vs Familiarity both are different
• Awareness vs Opinion is different

When you recognize you will know you need to spend time on collecting more experience/experiments not on watching things. Be aware/alert and change your habits/focus/priorities. Mass thinking machines or Mass content engaged zombies, Whar are we?

Keep Thinking!!!

Focus vs Non-Critical Interruptions vs Meetings

 

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