Elevator Pitch
This talk is a wake up call and should inspire other developers like me, to start looking into improving their communication and collaboration skills. I want to show the fallacy of aiming to be a fantastic coder and provide concrete examples and resources on how to start.
Description
In order to truly build great products we always depend on collaboration with others. However, as engineers we spend a lot of resources on becoming better at tech. We book courses, go to conferences, etc. I rarely see engineers applying the same discipline to learn how to collaborate. But collaboration is the only way we can make up for our own limitations. Collaboration between humans however comes with a cost, communication is messy, cultures are different. I always say that I’d love to have more software problems, because they are easy to fix. But people problems is what I have to deal with. And in the past I invested very few time in educating myself on collaboration and communication. I want us to change this.
Main takeaways:
You will always lack important skills to realize the best work you have ever done. It’s impossible to achieve greatness solely on your own. You will always depend on other to work with you and the more experienced you are the more other depend on you enabling them to achieve their best. Therefore we must invest equally in our collaboration and communication skills.
Notes
It’s this thread as a talk: https://twitter.com/coderbyheart/status/1119970835014529024