How to be a Ninja Developer

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- Guide for becoming a Ninja developer.
- Difference between ordinary developer vs ninja developer
- Practices that you should be following for becoming a proactive and ninja developer
- Learn and add at least 1 new skill per year in your resume
- Attend at least 1 new course in a quarter
- Follow Goal based learning
- Keep learning, keep sharing
- Meet new people and learn from them
- Follow experts over your favorite media
- Sharpen your analysis skill
- Stay passionate!

Save yourself from Back pain :)

Transcript

1. How to be a Ninja Developer Paresh Mayani @pareshmayani
2. @pareshmayani
3. 3 Slides • Slides with GIFs https://goo.gl/s4B1tb • Speakerdeck (Download PDF) https://goo.gl/8jPPsc
4. 4 When we announced #DevFestAhm
5. 5 When registration started
6. 6 Thank you all for joining my session
7. Thanks I have your attention
8. 8 You mean Ninja?
9. 9 Nope I mean Ninja Developers
10. Ordinary Developers Ninja Developers Vs
11. Ordinary Developers - Learn - Code - Eat - Sleep
12. Ninja Developers - Learn - Code - Network - Share - Communicate - Analysis - Eat - Relax
13. Learn
14. Read Medium Articles - FreeCodeCamp - Mindorks - Hackernoon - DailyJS - Google Developers Experts
15. Read Medium Articles - FreeCodeCamp - Mindorks - Hackernoon - DailyJS - Google Developers Experts Did you hear about GDG Ahmedabad publication?
16. “To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted” - George Keller Tip: Follow Writers/experts on Medium, twitter for learning
17. “To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted” - George Keller Exercise: Follow people on Twitter
23. Watch Online Videos And Courses - Udacity - Udemy - Google Developers - LearnWebCode - Akashtips - MTechViral
24. “To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted” - George Keller Exercise: Join any 1 online course
25. Attend Events - GDG Ahmedabad - Ahmedabad Java User Group - Wordpress Group - Startup Saturday - eChai Find more on Meetup
26. “To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted” - George Keller Question: Why do you attend events?
27. “To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted” - George Keller Exercise: Join any 1 meetup group/community
28. Extra Tips - Be in a group of passionate People - Take part in online forums - Github organisation (Open source)
29. Attention! You can not and Need not to learn everything coming out in the market
30. Make a plan for learning You can not and Need not to learn everything coming out in the market - Prepare a list of all topics/things that you want to learn - May be a list of things that you are lagging behind in your domain - Decide the priority of each topics and reset the order - Select top 3 - Make a plan for Learning 1st - Continue until you are done with all 3 things
31. Code
32. Have a Pet project - Develop something you are passionate about - To solve problems
33. Have a Pet project - Develop something you are passionate about - To solve problems - Can’t try out all the things in client projects
34. Have a Pet project - Develop something you are passionate about - To solve problems - Can’t try out all the things in client projects - Side Income
35. Open Source Contribution - Find open source projects or repository
36. Open Source Contribution - Find open source projects or repository - Make your own repo
37. Open Source Contribution - Find open source projects or repository - Make your own repo - Discuss and learn - Help you in building your profile - Career opportunity
38. Open Source Contribution - Career opportunity
39. Pair Programming
40. Peer to peer Code Review
41. “To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted” - George Keller Exercise: Start following Git flow model Get your PRs reviewed
42. Network
43. Attend Events Take part in forums - Meet new people - Learn from experts - Discuss with people - Know what they are developing
44. Deliver Talks - Gets you to connect with community members and experts - More on Slide 44
45. “To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted” - George Keller Exercise: Take selfie with 5 new people and upload over social media and tag them
46. Share
47. “To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted” - George Keller “Teach is to learn twice”
48. Write blogs/articles - How to start with blogging???? Somewhere you will have to start, right? - Write in parts - Get it reviewed Benefits: - Online friends/followers - Build your own profile - Communication skills improved
49. “To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted” - George Keller Exercise: Write a blog on your #DevFestAhm experience
50. Deliver Talks - Submit CFPs - Lightning talks - Show and Tell - Full length talks - Session in company
51. Deliver Talks - Submit CFPs Objection 1: No one wants to listen me
52. Deliver Talks - Submit CFPs Objection 1: No one wants to listen me Objection 2: I don’t know NOTHING
53. Deliver Talks - Submit CFPs Objection 1: No one wants to listen me Objection 2: I don’t know NOTHING Objection 3: Rejection, keep submitting!
55. Communicate
56. Communicate very well - Should be able to communicate well, be it clients or team
57. Communicate very well - Should be able to communicate well, be it clients or team - Share daily status update
58. Daily Status update Today’s status update: Today’s update: - Worked on X thing - IN PROGRESS - Worked on Y thing - COMPLETED. Hosted on server Plan for tomorrow: - Work on Z thing Blockers/Queries if any - Not any at this moment
59. “To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted” - George Keller Exercise: Start sharing Daily Status Update from tomorrow
60. Communicate very well - Should be able to communicate well, be it clients or team - Share daily status update - Share proper commitments
61. Communicate very well - Should be able to communicate well, be it clients or team - Share daily status update - Share proper commitments - Share concerns at right time
62. Communicate very well - Should be able to communicate well, be it clients or team - Share daily status update - Share proper commitments - Share concerns at right time - English Communication Skills
63. Analysis
64. Requirement Analysis - Understand project requirement thoroughly before you jump on the development part
65. Requirement Analysis - Understand project requirement thoroughly before you jump on the development part
66. Extra point: - Control your emotions when there is a change in requirement
67. “To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted” - George Keller “Change is the only Constant” “Boss (Client) is always right”
68. Requirement Analysis - Understand project requirement thoroughly and then jump on the development part - Corner cases and User scenarios
69. Requirement Analysis - Understand project requirement thoroughly and then jump on the development part - Corner cases and User scenarios - Request for the documentation (SRS, User stories)
70. Analysis skill - Ask the right questions
71. Analysis skill - Ask the right questions - Make no assumptions
72. Analysis skill - Ask the right questions - Make no assumptions - Realise what you don’t know
73. Eat & Relax
74. Eat & Relax - Take enough rest - Maintain schedule - Go for walk - Give time for yourself CLEAR OUT CACHE
75. Concluding... - Learn and add at least 1 new skill per year in your resume - Attend at least 1 new course in a quarter - Follow Goal based learning - Keep learning, keep sharing - Meet new people and learn from them - Follow experts over your favorite media - Sharpen your analysis skill - Stay passionate! Save yourself from Back pain
76. Hiring Ninja Developers Simform Solutions https://www.simform.co.in/careers/ paresh@simformsolutions.com
77. 77 Slides • Slides with GIFs https://goo.gl/s4B1tb • Speakerdeck (Download PDF) https://goo.gl/8jPPsc
78. Thank you! Paresh Mayani, Practice Head @ Simform @pareshmayani
79. No Q&A