Learning journal — Week 5 takeaways
by Mayra Lucero García Ramírez
26/10/2020–30/10/2020
This is the beginning of the second phase at the Nearsoft Academy. It has been a real journey with ups and downs.
First, I learned how a kick-off is done. Even though I have worked with teams and clients, I have never worked at this level and with this dynamic.
We did not have the greatest start at the kick-off, we (my team and I) were very confused and that point but the improvement comes from learning from mistakes. So we talked, have a retrospective of the kick-off and move forward, we work, and we worked very hard, and things resulted very well 👍🏽.
The staff helped us a lot in the transition. We got to this point to try to not think 🤔 as developers but as users and also to got that we need to take a step back, analyze and then act. Personally, I reinforced the idea that in a project, the most important thing is not coding, but understanding what are you doing, and advance little by little until get to the code.
From the team, I have been learning a lot, how to take advantage of all the talents and capabilities and to learn from them. I am not talking about just programming skills, because it is kind of the first thing that pops out when in a team of developers. I am talking about everything, negotiation, analysis, how to ask, how to express the ideas 💡 , organization, a lot of things that come in hand 🖐 to the team, apart from the technical skills.
Also, communication is the key to a lot of things
I also had some getaways from my reunions with my mentors, how to ask, how to negotiate a project, how they do it, and things to work better as a team like reach an agreement of how the work is going to be done and how are we going to communicate between us. I tried to apply this in the process of becoming a better team.
This week, I presented my last lightning 🌩 talk. I learned a lot from my topic, the Event Loop of JS, great topic, I found some amazing information in here if you want to check it out. Besides this, I learn a little more about React and Flutter and I had a great refresh of my software engineering knowledge.
It was a very exhausting week but at the end of it, I consider I learned a lot, I am very satisfied with the team’s work and I am excited for what is coming😁👀.