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Learn to be a Phoenix

It's been a long time since the last post, But it's good to see you all. Welcome back to " Stable & Scale ". Are you a regular reader of Stable & Scale Blog? Kindly provide us with your feedback helps to understand and create content accordingly. Don't forget to share with your peers & friends. Now, back to " Stable & Scale ". Each & every day, new technologies are booming, more creative and so on. Do you know why tech industries are trying to adapt to it? You will get the answer at the end of the blog post. Hi, I am Lakshman, Solution Architect Practioner, Blogger, Youtuber & this Blog writer. I believe you want to be a phoenix rather than a unicorn to evolve in your career. Let me tell you a story , " A Person who is an Architect of a very repetitive company in early 20's . Technologies they know were .net framework, jquery, MVC, etc., . One day, there was a boom in the front-end framework . Its feature ar...

No Data No Scale

Hi Friends, It’s good to see you all. Welcome back to “ Stable & Scale ”. As a developer on this road path, we will learn a lot. If you want to grow in your IT Career, We should consider certain things. One such thing is No Data No Scale , When you are working on something, it’s required to know your stats. We need to know the stats to checkout our effort regards it. Its especially needed while overview your performance & effort spent to check our potentials. We need to get data for the below, What We Do? Why We Do? When We Do? What the effort? Our Potential needs to increase constantly like, Redefining Boundaries based on data. We can scale your potential with this data. So, think about Having Data & Analytics. Until then, I am Lakshman , Signing Off. Keep Learning, Explore New Skills, Enjoy your life. Fine On-road head, we will discuss a lot of things. Looking forward to your comments and please share your feedback.

Redefining Boundaries

Hi Friends, It's good to see you all. Welcome back to " Stable & Scale ". As a developer on this road path, we will learn a lot. If you want to grow in your IT Career, We should consider certain things. One such thing is Redefining Boundaries , You may think Boundaries means restriction, but it's the total opposite. On the learning curve, boundaries indicate knowledge, wisdom, etc., When we say redefining, constantly extend your boundaries to explore more. It's not only for Learning, for everything you do. For example, Learning Python beginner and extend till expert level. Cycling 25km and extending to your capacity. There are certain things to consider on redefining your boundaries, Don't extend more than 25% of the current capacity Need to be Achievable. In my case, I will be redefining my boundaries at least once every year. So, think about redefining boundaries. Until then, I am Lakshman , Signing Off. Keep Learning, Explore New S...

Mentorship Matters

Hi Friends, It's good to see you all. Welcome back to " Stable & Scale ". As a developer on this road path, we will learn a lot. If you want to grow in your IT Career, We should consider certain things. One such thing is Mentorship Matters , Every developer will have a lot of things to learn to scale your career. Who will teach you those skills and techniques, its none other than Mentors? For you to have a successful developer, everyone requires a lot of Mentors. Based on the skills and technique. I believe great mentors are the key to scaling your career. To find a mentor, you need to have a mentor mindset in the first place. We need to do certain things first, Listening Patience Passion Motivation To be great, these are required. Mentors are the one who guides you in throw right ways in your career. Each mentor can teach certain things, Skills. Moves Techniques etc., We need to choose the right mentor to be successful. By the Way, I have go...

Embrace Conflict

Hi Friends, It's good to see you all. Welcome back to " Stable & Scale ". As a developer on this road path, we will learn a lot. If you want to grow in your IT Career, We should consider certain things. One such thing is Embrace Conflict , Every office has its conflict, which might be on ideas, topics, decisions, etc., It may be either Constructive Conflict or Destructive Conflict. We can embrace only Constructive Conflict. What is Constructive Conflict ? It embraces differing ideas and worldviews to move toward its goals and mission. This type of conflict increases productivity rather than hampers it. A Conflict that's positive but includes constructive conflict in teams, like brainstorming sessions where people disagree. It helps participants talk openly and respectfully about these disagreements in a mutual attempt to understand each other's perspectives and create the best possible solution. So, we need to embrace Constructive Conflict to move n...

Know Your Environment

Hi Friends, It's good to see you all. Welcome back to " Stable & Scale ". As a developer, on this road path, we will learn a lot. If you want to grow in your IT Career, We should consider certain things. One such thing is Know Your Environment , Every office has its ways of culture & System/Process. First, we need to know the style of works & culture they persuade, then analyse/diagnose it, once done act on it. On the Ways to the diagnosis of Environment, we need to consider a lot of things. One Such thing is How they improve their stand. You may ask why & what I meant to be ?. We are working in an office where everyone like to improve and move to the next level. We can categorise those as three groups, Improve as a team. Move our team to the next level. As individuals. The most intruding ones are Individuals, but I currently preserve First Category. We need to take all the precautions before we act on it. To Know the Environment, we nee...

Good Listener

Hi Friends, It's good to see you all. Welcome back to " Stable & Scale ". As a developer, on this road path, we will learn a lot. If you want to grow in your IT Career, We should consider certain things. One such thing is Good Listener , It's essential in our career growth. There are places where you need to be a good listener, especially in any Meeting as below, Team Meeting. With stakeholders. Director & CTO's, etc., You may ask why its need? To be a good developer, you need listing skills to learn. Let me tell something that my mentor said, When you are in the meeting, you need to listen to everyone and wait for at least 3-half of the meeting time then, start the talk. When you listen first, you know when and what to talk about it. So Keep Listening & Learn a Lot. Until then, I am Lakshman , Signing Off. Keep Learning, Explore New Skills, Enjoy your life. Fine On-road head, we will discuss a lot of things. Looking forward to you...

Follow Process

Hi Friends, It's good to see you all. Welcome back to " Stable & Scale ". As a developer, on this road path, we will learn a lot. If you want to grow in your IT Career, We should consider certain things. One such thing is Follow Process , You may ask why & how its need ?. It's essential to your career growth. When we are working on a project or product, So we need to choose methodology includes, Waterfall FDD Agile Scrum XP Lean But each methodology has its pros & cons, but the main thing is we need to follow by strict else we won't meet your targets. For example, When the Project first comes, we do our feasibility, then UX, UI, develop, test and release. If we are not followed the steps or skip the steps, we won't see the full potential of the Product or Project. So do flow the process as strict. Until then, I am Lakshman , Signing Off. Keep Learning, Explore New Skills, Enjoy your life. Fine On-road head, we will discuss a l...

Share Credits

Hi Friends, It's good to see you all. Welcome back to " Stable & Scale ". As a developer, on this road path, we will learn a lot. If you want to grow in your IT Career, We should consider certain things. One such thing is Share Credits , You may ask why & how its need ?. Let me share my experience as a small story , " I have a team that is so energetic and more creative in the works. They have completed the app, which is ready for Store. When I enter that team, they already completed the app. Only pending is put it on Store. So, I started the process and educated the flow. After the app is published, my management team congrats me on that success. After, That What is did is provided with the entire credits to my team, who completed the app. With that, your team bonding is increased better, and we are on the way to complete another app ." The moral of the story is when you share credits which build work culture. The Real Why is, Helps Tea...

Share Wisdom

Hi Friends, This is Lakshman here. It's good to see you all. Welcome back to " Stable & Scale ". As a developer, on this road path, we will learn a lot. If you want to grow in your IT Career, We should consider certain things. One such thing is Share Wisdom , You may ask me, How we will grow via sharing wisdom? One of the nice things your ancestor says is "Share Things". The One who share things with others, one day it will get back to him. Why Share Wisdom Share wisdom is a process you should have in IT Sector. Let us know why Helps to builds the same practices across the team. Influence People to Learn & Share. Earns your Respect. Builds your Reputation. If we share the wisdom, you and our team will grow a lot Keep Learning, Explore New Skills, Enjoy your life. I Thank you for your support of this blog. Fine On-road head, we will discuss a lot of things. Looking forward to your comments and please share your feedback. Until that, I ...

Be Adamant

Hi Friends, This is Lakshman here. It's good to see you all. Welcome back to " Stable & Scale ". As a developer, on this road path, we will learn a lot. If you want to grow in your IT Career, We should consider certain things. One such thing is Be Adamant , By the Way, I want you to be adamant with your works and commitment. You may ask me, Why do we need to be Adamant with Works? If you are not adamant about our works, you cannot complete it. If you are adamant about your works, We have the guts to say that I have important work. Kindly check with Others. Let me tell you a small story , I had one project which needs to be complete within two weeks. My team is very transparent, so everyone knows what I am doing and how critical that project is. My team did not interfere with my works, but others tried to interfere with me in that initial stage of the project. The most precious day of the project is the initial stage because it is where all your base setup...

Handling Priority

Hi Friends, This is Lakshman here. It's good to see you all. Welcome back to " Stable & Scale ". As a developer, on this road path, we will learn a lot. Today we are going to discuss " Handling Priority ". If you want to grow in your IT Career, We should consider certain things. One such thing is Handling Work Priority , You may ask why & how its need ?. Let me share my experience as a small story , " One of the people left the office, So my manager asked me to handle a lot of projects . In that, two clients have provided a feature in their respective projects . In the IT, there will be a person as Single Point of Contact per Client . My Good luck both clients were handled by same person . So what I have done is shifted the responsibility to that person to set the priority . Meanwhile, I was relaxed and waited for their decision . The moral of the story is when you need to work on things, shift the responsibility of set priority to Con...

Make Room for Magic

Hi Friends, This is Lakshman here. It's good to see you all. Welcome back to " Stable & Scale ". As a developer, on this road path, we will learn a lot. Today we are going to discuss " Make Room for Magic ". If you want to grow in your IT Career, We should consider certain things. One such thing is Make Room for Magic , NOTE: In this entire blog, Magic indicates Innovation . Now, we are going to see Why, When & How to make such things. Why? Every developer or team need some room to do magic. The reason is that the place where a lot of products started. Some Why as below, Creates space. Keeps them motivated. Helps with Team building opportunities. When? Some When as below, When they feel stress. Feeling Bored. How? Some How are below, Build a Magic Team. Provide space for them. Leave them alone. That's it. The team will take care of it. So Start creating the Magic Room now. Keep Learning, Explore New Skills, Enjoy your l...

Avoid Comfort Zone

Hi Friends, This is Lakshman here. It's good to see you all. Welcome back to " Stable & Scale ". As a developer, on this road path, we will learn a lot. Today we are going to discuss " Avoid Comfort Zone ". To grow in our IT Career, we need to build habits. One such habit is Avoid Comfort Zone , When you start a new project or product, every developer uses their comfortable stack for development even though it's not a perfect suite. They have the mindset or habit to stuck on the same stack for all their application. It indicates that there are not open to change & wanted to be in their comfort zone. One of My Mentor says, " If you stay in your comfort zone, you won't learn anything " . Let me share with you my occasion as a small story , " We have many teams, but all are efficient on Only .Net Stack Development. One day, we got the lead from one of my clients on Cloud-Native Development with .NET Core, Angular, SigalR, ...

Be Positive

Hi Friends, This is Lakshman here. It's good to see you all. Welcome back to " Stable & Scale ". As a developer, on this road path, we will learn a lot. Today we are going to discuss " Be Positive ". To grow in our IT Career, we need to build habits. One such habit is Be Positive , Every Developer, while writing code there is a certain mindset required. One such thing is Be Positive . You may ask why & how its need ?. When you have a positive mindset, even after your failure, you can on achieving things. We need to keep pushing ourselves to complete it. You will still try to work on your skillset to achieve it. Let me share with you my occasion as a small story , " One day, my manager asked me to implement google maps API on search need locate the nearest location of Store . Initially, I was a little hesitant to work on migration, then tried to work it didn't work out . After few hours of gaps, I got relaxed and starting working on...

Learn to Un-Learn

Hi Friends, This is Lakshman here. It's good to see you all. Welcome back to " Stable & Scale ". As a developer, on this road path, we will learn a lot. Today we are going to discuss " Learn to Un-Learn ". To grow in our IT Career, we need to build habits. One such habit is Learn to Un-Learn , You may ask why & how its need ?. Let me tell you a small story , " A person was cycling for the last ten years . One day, he found that Motor Cycle with gears introduced . He wants to ride but unable to ride because he used the same technique on Motor Cycle . After that, he did not follow that same technic and change his technic to ride Motor Cycle with Gear ." The moral of the story is when you learn the latest technology. You should follow its technique. It indicates that you need to un-learn to learn. Keep Learning, Explore New Skills, Enjoy your life. I Thank you for your support of this blog. Fine On-road head, we will discuss a lot o...

Escape Competition

Hi Friends, This is Lakshman here. It's good to see you all. Welcome back to " Stable & Scale ". As a developer, on this road path, we will learn a lot. Today we are going to discuss " Escape Competition ". To grow in our IT Career, we need to build habits. One such habit is Escape Competition , You may ask why & how to Escape the Competition. Why Escape Competition Escape Competition is a thought process you should have in IT Sector. Let us know why Builds a healthy & transparent Team. Travel on your own path. Creates peace at work. How to Escape Competition There are various occucation where you need to escape competition & needed some mindset, such as below, There is only one thing create lot of competition which is Compararing with others on all respective. If you stop it, you will be happy. When some compare you with others, say then start "Do we have a same path?" on hard voice. So, don't waste time and start...

Profile Skills

Hi Friends, This is Lakshman here. It's good to see you all. Welcome back to " Stable & Scale ". As a developer, on this road path, we will learn a lot. Today we are going to discuss " Profile Skills ". To grow in our IT Career, we need to build habits. One such habit is Profile Skills , You may ask why & how to profile skills. Why profile skills Profiling the Skills is more valuable in the IT sector. Let us know why People will recognize you via skills. Create opportunities to works on creative projects. It Established your proficiency in that skills. How profile skills There are various methods to profile skills, Conducting Technical Session. Showcase your skills via Apps, POC, etc., Contribute your knowledge via conversation with people. Write Technical Blogs & Videos, etc., So, don't waste time and start Profile Skills . Keep Learning, Explore New Skills, Enjoy your life. Thank you for your support. Fine On-road head,...

Read Books

Hi Friends, This is Lakshman here. It's good to see you all. Welcome back to " Stable & Scale ". As a developer, on this road path, we will learn a lot. Today we are going to discuss " Read Books ". We need to build a habit, which is required to grow in our IT Career. One of a habit is Read Books , Why we need to read books, here are the reasons below, To have a Creative mindset Build your vocabulary Improve Focus and concentration on Task Improve Strong Analytics Thinking Its Reduces stress To have Better Sleep When you have peace of mind, we can do whatever we can. Reading books helps a lot. So start reading the books, not only technologies related, but also novels, stories, etc., One of my Favorite Books is " The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win " written by Gene Kim (Author), Kevin Behr (Author), George Spafford (Author). Keep Learning, Explore New Skills, Enjoy your life. Thank you for...

Big Picture

Hi Friends, This is Lakshman here. It's good to see you all. Welcome back to " Stable & Scale ". As a developer, on this road path, we will learn a lot. Today we are going to discuss " Big Picture ". We need to build a habit, which is required to grow in our IT Career. One of a habit as below, If you are working on a project, you need to know the architecture of the application. What all the integration we planned? Have we done the POC for it? If you are going to architect or develop an application, you need to know all possible scenarios & use cases. In development, if you know that entire architecture Big Picture which helps to write code officially. So always need to know the Big Picture of Application or Enterprise App. Keep Learning, Explore New Skills, Enjoy your life. Thank you for your support. Fine On-road head, we will discuss a lot of things. Looking forward to your comments and please share your feedback. Until that, I am La...