Your Job Is Not to Write Code
summary
The talk argues that a developer’s role is broader than merely writing code and focuses on practices and mindset shifts to deliver value. It discusses responsibilities like communicating with stakeholders, understanding product needs, testing, automation, and maintaining quality using tools and processes rather than just producing features. The presentation emphasizes collaboration, ownership, and non-coding activities (planning, reviews, CI/CD) that make software successful.
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chapters (23)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:20Beginning
- 0:42Who are you?
- 1:27Poll
- 2:59Your client asks you for things
- 3:20The customer is king
- 4:02IT has no limits
- 5:42You can do anything and everything
- 6:17People need to be able to choose a rim model
- 8:45The options form
- 10:51The model was discontinued
- 13:53We have jobs where we work for medicine, an online game course, a transport company, and we often end up in a job where we reuse things we know, and it’s applied in other fields
- 14:52They express their need poorly, and I tend to say: if it’s complicated to explain or implement, it’s probably poorly thought out—and ultimately, we don’t need to solve what the client directly asks for, but what lies behind it
- 15:22I need a button because every morning when I click this button, I’ll become an expert
- 18:36Identifying the real problems
- 20:11Simplifying processes
- 22:10The perfect is the enemy of the good
- 22:51The idea behind all this
- 24:05Tip for understanding IE6 compatibility
- 25:57The client rethought their process without alienating anyone
- 28:22Should the developer always include time to act as a project manager?
- 29:26How to formalize need expression?
- 31:20How to respond to a need?
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