Better Self Management

Those are the slides of our lightning talk at the App Builders developer conference in 2019. It's about how personal development topics when it comes to developing software.
How can you become a better developer? Not in terms of studying new parts of a framework but in terms of developing your own personal traits.

Transcript

1. Ghulam Nasir Better Self Management 1
2. Be Organised & Focused • Set Goals • Plan • Time Management • 2 Minute Rule 2
3. Plan Well A goal without a plan is just a wish Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 3
4. Plan Well • Never “underestimate” • Set “Realistic Goals” • Golden Rule: Don’t over-plan 4
5. Execute Good business planning is 9 parts execution for every 1 part of strategy. Tim Berry 5
6. Execute The thing that keeps a business ahead of the competition is excellence in execution. Tom Peters 6
7. Communicate • Communicate as often as you can • avoids a lot of confusion • When in doubt, always ask for clarification • Don’t make any assumptions 7
8. 8 How the customer explained it How the project manager understood it How the developer wrote it What the customer really needed
9. Tracking • Execution going according to plan? • Did we plan wrong? • Was there an issue with execution • Something unexpected came up • Learn from experience 9
10. Accountability & Retrospective • Self-Accountability • Self-Reflection • Mistakes (read: Blunders) Happen • Accept • Reflect • Don’t Repeat 10
11. Honest Feedback 11
12. 12 Don’t be afraid to say “No”
13. Thank you! Grazie! Vielen Dank! 13
14. Reliability If your actions don’t live up to your words, you have nothing to say. Dr. DaShanne Stokes 14