Good Behaviors

Rawin Viruchpintu

for Developers

Who I am ?

Rawin Viruchpintu Creative Technology Manager Palomar Systems / Spriiing

BlackBerry Developer Vervata

Research Assistant NECTEC

Outline • What's developer ?

• Developer Levels

• Skills

• Around Dev

• With … ?

• Conclusion

What's developer?

• A person who is involved in writing software.

It is mostly used as another term for programmer.

- ft.com -

Level of Devs

Junior developer Senior developer

Level of Devs

Senior developer

Experience Problem solving

Self learning

Communication skill

Performance

Teamwork Vision

Domain knowledge Time estimation

Junior developer

Responsibility

Skills

Wide Deep

Webservices HTML5

Java C++

database

Python Ruby

Web technology

noSQL

REST HTML5

jQuery

Around dev

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Customers

Marketing

QA/Testers

Developers

Manager

Customers

With … [ Customers ]

• Listen to a user who complains your products.

• Any product was designed for customers, Not for developers

• Don't make them think !

– Intuitive

– Easy to learn/use/remember/ and forget!

– Fast response

• Open mind for negative feed back and smile

With … [ Marketing ]

With … [ Marketing ]

• Translate your binary logic to simple words

• Marketing can tell what is the product value

• Tell them about alternative solutions with

restrictions/conditions.

• Summarize overall concept into a (good) picture

• Deliver on time!

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With … [ QA / testers ] ?

With … [ QA / testers ]

• Clear communication (check list will be useful)

• Defensive coding (check exception, logging)

• Good error messages

• Everything must be failed, know it early

• Failed early is cheap, Failed lately is expensive

• More code -> More tests • Mistakes are normal, correct it clever is a point

• Tester is a best friend, not your enemy !

sudo With … [ Developers ]

Programmer produces code

he believes is bug-free.

sudo With … [ Developers ]

• Find solutions first, Don't start with creating something

(Don't reinvent the wheel)

• Avoid labor-intensive techniques

• Learn good designs

• Every element needs to be (unit) tested

• Write code for reusing

• Comments

• Share your ideas, solutions, mistakes

With … [ Manager ]

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With … [ Manager ]

• Analyze problem first

• Talk only what you know the real facts,

Not what you think you know

• Alarm first -> no Surprise!

• Always manage your time with top priority.

• Tell the facts, root cause and good solutions

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With … [ Yourself ]

• Keep Learning

• Read, read, read and try to do

• Focus, Focus and Focus

• Summarize often Write a sentence to describe your work every day on a calendar

• Don't believe until you can prove by yourself

• TODO list with priority

Conclusion

THANK YOU

@windygallery