Engage: Improve Your Attention in These Areas for Your Software Development Success

Paying Attention?

The Secret Developer
3 min readFeb 20, 2023
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Software developers don’t just need skills and a great team to succeed and make great products.

You need to pay attention.

What You’d Get From Full Engagement

Stand-up Meetings

I’ve seen this so many times.

So many developers are saying something like:

“I’m working on TS912, merged TS911 yesterday. Waiting on Susan to finish her ticket for my next tickets.”

Nobody listens to what is happening. There isn’t real accountability for the work done, it seems like nobody cares.

Scrub that, nobody cares

If we did care we’d understand what our colleagues are doing. We’d be able to support them in our shared goals.

Sprint Goals

Rather than just listening to the part of the business which you are interested in, you could actually get a grip of the goal.

You would be able to add your experience and energy in the whole team meeting their…

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The Secret Developer

A top software developer who has worked for some of the biggest tech companies (yes, that one too) reveals the stories behind Big Tech and software engineering.