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Software Craftsmanship


On today’s blog we are going to review our first podcast named Software Craftsmanship, were Bob Martin talks about two things mostly, the software craftmanship (kind of obvious but ok) and some software techniques, during the whole podcast Bob is asked about the relation between and some of the characterises of each one that we are going to discuss later on.

The term Software Craftmanship refers to a software development technique based on the fact that when someone finish the college and then get its first formal job, the things that are actual work they are really different to the things learned in school. Now this explanation is really accurate because what we learn in the college is just the tip of the iceberg, that is why is so difficult at the beginning of a job to actually be settle down and adapt to the work rhythm the company has. This technique has an interesting approach on how to develop the skills, because normally we learn them by trial and error, but according this approach we develop them or even obtain them by the tutoring of the more skilled programmer.

This technique is very common nowadays, in fact I think that every area technically does it, the capacitation, this technique is the equal to a capacitation in any other job; because of this many companies doesn’t use more the waterfall technique, because the technology is constantly changing, there are new updates mostly every 2 or 3 months.

I cant say I loved the podcast, but can’t also say that I hated it, is just an interview to understand better a technique that can help everyone in the industry, is more like a very good advice for everyone out there having a hard time in the work, or at least that is what I think.

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