Interlude: Reflecting on the Differences between Software Engineering Goals no.’s 3 & 4

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Interlude: Reflecting on the Differences between Software Engineering Goals no.’s 3 & 4 

I am a bit stuck on writing up my fourth software engineering goal. It intersects quite closely with the third one. They are both still a part of the same thing. They both represent two parts of the same process. Goal three is about designing and architecting a solution when the feature request or problem is delivered to me.

Goal four is actually acting on this and implementing it. It’s about how much help I get. It’s about getting no help at all on smaller problems. It’s about getting some help on medium to large problems. It’s also about how much time I take. It’s about speeding up and doing things faster and getting better at solving problems with time. 

Especially over time. I want to be able to prove that I have become faster at solving a problem with time than I was beforehand. And it’s about having done it time and time over again. It’s about having a proven track record of just being able to smash things out very quickly. Like some of those legends who fix a bug in twenty minutes.

I need to add one thing to my last software engineering goals blog post btw. I need to add in the testing thing. 

Adding or writing a test should be so obvious that I shouldn’t need to be told to do it. Anyway. Yes yes. 

A rustic image with a golden frame. White pine cones and pale autumn colours. Text reads: trying to understand the differences between two similar software engineering goals.

Thank you. 

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