Professional Software Development

The speech I presented on UAMobile 2014. It described other than coding skills needed for Software Engineers to perform in projects.

The video (Ukrainian) could be found there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSBHikU9Jeo&index=3&list=FLuiY2Nwoppgtmvpth-Y7k2A

Transcript

2. “All successful projects are alike; each unsuccessful project is unsuccessful in its own way.” ― Leo Tolstoy, PMBoK
3. 100% 100% 45% 7% 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% 120% 140% 160% Project Budget Project Duration Spent Planned 44% 56% Scope Delivered Fail to Deliver
4. So we have: • Scrum and Kanban • Modern languages and IDEs • Many tools that automate our work • Lots of talented developers with higher degree in CS • Coursera, StackOverflow.com, habrahabr.ru, etc. And we still fail projects!
9. What is Engineering Personal Qualities Processes and teamwork
10. Engineering (from Latin ingenium, meaning "cleverness" andingeniare, meaning "to contrive, devise") is the application of scientific, economic, social, and practical knowledge in order to invent, design, build, maintain, and improve structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes.
11. 15% 25% 20% 40% PM Design QA Development
12. 15% 25% 20% 25% 15% PM Design QA Development, other tasks Dev. Coding
13. 15% 25% 20% 25% 10% 5% PM Design QA Development, other tasks Dev. Coding Dev. Algorithm Design
18. Be Concrete Follow Up BLOT
19. Individuals and interactions over Processes and tools Working software over Comprehensive documentation Customer collaboration over Contract negotiation Responding to change over Following a plan
25. • Engineering is about delivering products, not just about coding • Software development is hard, and becomes harder • Personal skills • Curiosity • Mastery • Communication • Process • Mature from the start • Optimal books: http://goo.gl/VmyTK1