Software Engineering Lessons that I Have Had to Learn Twice

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Software Engineering Lessons that I Have Had to Learn Twice

  1. My tickets come first. Everything else is always secondary. Always. 
  2. I need to read the corresponding code before panicking and asking any further questions to the ticket writer 
  3. I need to find the corresponding code in the repository before panicking
  4. I need to find the Frontend problem in the UI first
  5. My manager said she wanted me to put it on a post it by my desk: first find the problem in the ui, and then find the problem in the code, before panicking about the ticket
  6. I said that I get blocked on the ticket when I don’t know what the acceptance criteria are. So she said I can create a comment on the ticket and write these down for myself if I want to. And then send them to someone if I need to check these. But I have never gotten these wrong. But my manager said the reason she didn’t want to write these down on the ticket was because she wanted me to have input on what I think they might be - I wonder if maybe at a higher level these should maybe be listed (but when I did have to write them for myself once I did them extremely well and in two minutes so that is maybe fair enough)
  7. I need to write down a comment on the ticket with the acceptance criteria before I panic
  8.  My ticket is more important than mentoring. I can deprioritise my learning if I have to (although I try and protect that react hour), I can deprioritise any tutorials I get sucked into sometimes 
  9. I really should measure my success in the day by how much of the ticket I have got done, and how much I have worked on it
  10. I do need to keep learning too - alone and with mentors - but I should keep it focused and on target and really try and keep in mind where I am with my tickets and how much progress I should be making on my tickets
  11. People keep saying to me I should enjoy it. I have forgotten how to enjoy anything. My huge feelings of shame around having learning needs that are unusual are really overwhelming me at the moment. I don’t know what to do except try and stick to these methods I keep on trying to outline - somehow - I don’t know how. Anyway thanks
    A purple dragon reading a yoga book
    One more photo of my purple giant dragon Harmony „reading”

If there’s one thing I can maybe try to ask of people around me more it’s to maybe help limit my input of information. 

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