DEV Community: Carla Dos Santos

Getting back to the right route

Carla Dos Santos — Sun, 06 Mar 2022 21:02:00 +0000

Hello everyone,

This month I finally started working on the project, which goal is to build a webapp that will exchange data with an external application.

The Tech Stack is Java JEE, MySql, Wildfly, REST.

In the kickoff meeting with the subject matter experts and the IT Architect, I only gathered the functional requirements.
After that, I realized that I was still asking questions as an analyst and not as a developer and the questions about non-functional requirements were not covered. I also realized that learning new technologies or refreshing software development skills is not enough to be in front of the computer and code. I talked to an experienced developer who gave me some hints to help me think again as a coder.

I listed things I need to do to help me with this project:

Admit that this code is practice and I had not been involved with it for very long. So I need to be patient with the learning curve and also be able to handle it in the time I will be stuck with some code problem.
Organize the task to be done (functional and non-functional requirements) before sitting in front of the computer to code.
Learn the knowledge and try to implement it as quickly as possible.
Be involved in development forums.
Sharing/writing what has been learned. I created an account on Confluence to write my own tutorials.
Going to code review meetings.

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Back to the roots

Carla Dos Santos — Wed, 03 Nov 2021 10:48:16 +0000

Hi, DEV community!

I started out my career as a System Analyst which had to gather requirements but also programming.

After many years working as an IT Consultant with main focus on BPM (Business Process Management) on the business perspective and Business Analysis, I decided to go back to development and writing code.

In the last three years was part of the IT-Architecture Team and my focus in the team was mostly about Processes, Technology and Platform and IT Landscape modeling.

A month ago, I started a new job, now I am part of the development team for BPM Automation.

We chose Camunda BPM for automating processes. We are also using Java, Spring Boot and Oracle.

I would like to share with you, how I will be handling to get used to code again in these first three months.

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Start week in code collab

Carla Dos Santos — Mon, 08 Mar 2021 13:29:54 +0000

The Code Collab Programm started. We got the first meeting to get know each other before our first Sprint Retro & Planning for CodeCollab.
In the first week we had the Sprint Team meeting, the first Talk about our App, the our first discussion about the App and its business requirements.

We got our first tasks before: creating a PR on Git and setup the environment for developing which I faced (still facing) issues installing Postgres and Ruby.
Here are my thoughts about things I think it's important for me to do:

using communication tools for remote working;
being aware by doing tasks, specially learning something totally new;
writing steps and sources from internet which I have taken to solve a problem or by learning a new stack;
learning more Git as a project/collaborative tool;
looking around (team, project and information on the internet).