Who Should Take This Course?
Is this course the right match for you? Learn who the intended audience is for this course.
Intended audience
This course is designed for both technical and non-technical readers, and provides different benefits to each. The following section lists them in detail:
Software developers
Software developers are the main link in the value delivery chain, as they do the final job of turning requirements into executable binaries. Therefore, they must master the recommended skills to ensure Effective Software production.
This course will be most beneficial to them.
Software architects
Here, architect refers to all who mentor and coach other developers throughout the software creation process, regardless of whatever their formal role is called.
Architectures in the industry pose tricky problems. Many popular architectures today become bottlenecks in feature development processes once their support becomes paramount for maintaining initial development speed. Having been deemed impractical, some are entirely thrown away or simply kept for paper presentations. Not only that, some are unable to catch up with the exponential growth of the user base.
In light of such problems, the course aims to guide architects towards helping businesses and developers by producing practical, scalable architectures that speed up development.
Software testers
Also known as a Quality Assurance (QA), Software Development Engineer in Test, or Software Design Engineer in Test (SDET), tester refers to those responsible for quality checks of delivered software.
Software testing is a growing knowledge area with a colossal amount of untapped opportunities for innovation and breakthroughs. Having discovered a few gaps, this course also aims to especially cater to the testing phase of the software development life cycle.
Regardless, testers, also viewed as engineers throughout the course, will benefit from the course overall as well.
Other members of software development teams
This section refers to the Project Managers, Business Analysts, Scrum Masters, Product Owners, etc.
As much as individual approaches and habits matter, the environment of a software developer has equal importance. They rarely work in isolation and are a part of a larger team with many non-technical people in them, which in turn warrants natural conflict of interests and complicates technical breakthroughs.
Owing to the gap in many existing guidelines, this course uncovers various process or product-related problems and solutions that directly or indirectly affect software development. Since the technical staff has little or no say in these areas, it is essential that people participating in or owning these functional directions also support the transformation that engineering organizations aim to tackle.
Leaders of software development organizations
In a typical organization, changes to the process and practice require approvals from several layers involving managers, directors, VPs, and executives. Given the difficulty and a lack of agency at the software developers’ end, individual contributors often give up and follow usual flows or quit their jobs to seek better environments.
On the other hand, leadership often struggles with figuring out how to efficiently serve the business side of the organization. Despite working with the technical staff for improvement, the immensity of the problems turns the management’s full-time job into constantly monitoring or fixing existing software issues. These issues take up valuable time and do not leave the managers with sufficient time and effort to work on more critical business problems.
The course acknowledges challenges on both sides of the fence and tries to solve them by acting as a bridge. What works better than a course that both developers and their managers can read?
Concluding remarks
If you are an engineer, make sure to suggest that your team and your manager do the same. If you are a manager or other representative of technical leadership, it is encouraged you take the course and recommend it to your staff.
The course aims to bring into light the efficacy of bringing together engineers and managers for Effective Software to be achieved.
Crafting better software has been impossible mainly because one side or the other lacks skills or awareness about this opportunity.
So, let us achieve the desired breakthrough together!