Career Advice

12/11/18 • 22 min

In the season two finale we take a listen back to all of the advice shared by our guests. While each piece of advice focuses on a different non-technical aspect of a career in development, they all share a commonality. Each one is a result of mistakes made, lessons learned and the experiences of each guest. Offering valuable insights that you can use to reflect and grow in your own development career. Also, bloopers!

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Communication Tactics

Central to being a successful developer is establishing tactics for communicating ideas, needs and tasks with other people. In this episode we talk with Heather Staudt, UX Product Manager at BioRAFT about communication. Heather outlines the importance communication plays on her team to correctly understand and explain development tasks and needs. We discuss why communication is an imperative part of any team, methods for to how to best communicate with others and things to remember when attempting to communicate technical details to less technical people. Having your code communicate with computers is important to your day to day success, but being able to communicate to the people you interact with is imperative to your long term career success.

Key Takeaways

Ninety percent of developer communication, it explaining technical topics to less technical people.
Learn what communication method or medium works for the person you want to communicate with and use that method.
Communication is not limited to the word you use, don't forget to use diagrams, drawings or even physical motion.

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Working Remotely

When a majority of your day is spent on a computer where you work does not matter as much as how you work and how you communicate. In this episode we talk with Kellie Walton(@roundoctagon), Director of Client Services & Strategy at Isovera about working Remotely. Kellie outlines the benefits and challenges she's experienced working with remotes team. During our conversation we talk about tools and methods that are helpful for maintaining communication, support and camaraderie amongst remote team members. We also discuss different forms of remote work and how developers can start to introduce the practice at their company. Which in turn, Build up the behaviors that will grow your communication abilities that will aid in your long term career growth.