Four Years

Han Yi

2013/09 ~ 2017/12

After wonderful but frustrating journey ...

• Back home in middle of Aug, 2013
• < 5 days: Australia Telecom operators (Unable to shadow)
• < 3 days: P3 Retailer (Unable to shadow)
• < 20 days: 'Black worker' on the beach
• ...Until end of Sep, 2013

"First full life cycle product development project"

 

Awesome and productive team-mates

"Tough" but really helpful buddy & sponsor

Kind and respectful client

Ideal but great vision

 

"Go find yourself"

• Technical skills
• Agile
• Business
• Professionalism

To get

Technical skills

• Coding is the way to earn a living and beat anxiety
• "Matz is Nice So We Are Nice"
• No one knows MVC better than DHH, but MVC is just tip of the iceberg
• Ultimate software architecture is about philosophy and ethics of designing
• Learn to be a solution-oriented problem solver
• The tech radar owned by you is more important than the one gave by others

• Technical skills
• Agile
• Business
• Professionalism

To get

Agile

• Agile is no longer Utopia
• TW is no longer Agile
• Practice makes you full, Principle makes you hungry
• [Bestseller] The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product

• Technical skills
• Agile
• Business
• Professionalism

To get

Business

• Could not focus on business in first 2 years
• Product manager is few in outsourcing industry
• Domain knowledge is charming, it can help you verify architecting methodology
• Business is always No.1 place for both client and TW

 

• Technical skills
• Agile
• Business
• Professionalism

To get

Professionalism

• Software excellence is professionalism, more than one of pillars
• Respect to software engineering code of ethics
• Soft skill has same position as other skills
• Training & Coaching others is professionalism and leadership in team any time