Thread by @grazdev_

@verodigiorgio at #CodemotionMilan22 answering the question on how to grow professionally (as software architect for her, but it’s the same for all paths in #softaredevelopment). Let’s discuss about it in this thread 🧵 👇🏻

Let me introduce the thread saying that the talk by @verodigiorgio at #CodemotionMilan22 about #gitops was very helpful and rich of content and points of inspiration. Surely something to try in every day company business to improve our products, developer and customer experience.

Next, going straight to the point what @verodigiorgio says here is that #curiosity and the ability to face our ideas with other #developers (or more generally other colleagues in the business having another point of view) are fundamentals point for growth and success.

I agree with @verodigiorgio about it, these are key points for personal careers grown reflecting it also on the company, team or product your are working on. I’d like, starting from this thought, to add some personal considerations.

One of the most viewed cognitive bias in #productmanagers (but same applies for developers) is the “Cofirmation Bias”: tendency to use, search for, interpret, weight and remember information that confirms your preexisting beliefs.

Without examining the psycological meaning of that, a silver bullet to deline the problem is surely the possibility to engage productive conversation with other team members and colleagues.

Surely a significant mindset shift is needed: you have to embrace the opposite opinion and learn about viewpoint that opposite your own. It’s a real hard nut to crack, but no doubt that confronting your opinion with other in the business might help.

Same could be applied on a group people: a team without confronting their beliefs with the project stakeholders surely produce a product out of expectations and a product that doesn’t satisfy stakeholders is not a valuable one.

Moreover doesn’t forget that #transparency, #inspection and #adaptation should be the fundamental pillars of any #agile organisation. All of them are facilitated and empowered by the dialogue between team members and stakeholders.

Secondly, the curiosity, the thirst for knowledge and the desire to validate hypothesis are the every day fuel of any #developer and knowledge worker in general.

So how could we think of improving our careers and ourself without applying these simple principles into our every day life?
Let me know your point of view about these topics with a comment!🙏