Most recently, we began to talk here about various management tricks that should be paid attention to the heads of IT departments.
Today we noticed a very interesting
post on this topic from the RedHat developer and
Kano OS , Radek Pazdera.
Let's see what conclusion can be made on the basis of the story of Radek.
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/ Photo hackNY.org / CCThe whole point here is in the speed of change in IT. Keeping up with them is not so easy - they have to constantly solve the task of updating their technological stack.
Many developers simply find themselves out of work when familiar platforms and programming languages ​​become less popular or even disappear.
To solve this problem, the community itself has developed a certain approach, which is to develop one open project per year. As part of this approach, it is important to apply the following rule - the entire technological stack must be new.
The ban on working with familiar technologies is something that is sometimes necessary and there is nothing shameful about creating it for yourself in an artificial way.
As a result, you get a much more serious challenge compared with the passage of tutorials and reading manuals. Plus, you are disciplined by the fact that the project will need to be put on public display.
This technique of updating its technological stack allows you to conduct practical training on product development from scratch to the prototype. It is almost impossible to do something similar within the framework of your duties in a familiar workplace.
Here you get not only the result, but also the training of attention and patience within the framework of the process itself and the completion of the development. This project does not have to become a new OS, which will destroy all competitors, but it should have a practical meaning.
Developing a completely new technology stack from scratch is a fundamental approach to self-learning that will help you greatly diversify the routine and allow you to rely on a more interesting career perspective.
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