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It's Show time, Week 6 taskForce 4.0

Dusabe Johnson — Mon, 06 Dec 2021 08:44:53 +0000

Shoot for the stars, that way if you fall short, at least you land on the moon

The week started with us dealing with deploying the application we've been working on for the past 3 weeks and learned some new skills like continuous integration and continuous deployment where you set up your CI/CD and automate everything that happens after development, which is testing, deployment.
It was a great experience cause I learned it saves a lot of time and energy and plus it's a professional way of doing things.

we continued with a session of self-organization and learned yet a new skill again, we found in our team we work more efficiently when we organize ourselves which means we have to know the target and everyone's responsibility and the rest is magic!!

continuing this week the part of containerizing the application was tricky cause most programmers have this thought if it works don't touch it, but I think it doesn't work like that in DevOps you first have to understand why it works how it works, and how everything is connected then your work is done.

we struggled a bit cause we wanted it to run so bad before we even understand what happens at every step of the process. but in the end, we achieved it kudos to us.

FURAHIDAY

It was the day we've been waiting for and it finally came we graduated it's was a fulfilling moment for me and for every taskforce member. It really was worth it.

console.log("Hoolay")

One step at a time, week 5 Task-force

Dusabe Johnson — Mon, 29 Nov 2021 08:15:37 +0000

Every step is progress

The week continued with a lot of intense work especially codding sessions.

where we had to coordinate ourselves in our teams either in what order we do the work and also how the work was to be done.

Room for Errors

the week was supposed to be all about test, logs, and documentation, i can say we started a little bit slow not actually realizing how much the work was and we didn't give ourselves time for error which i can say really stressed us on the demo day.

cultural Differences

we also had intercultural communication and solving conflicts with Silke where we learned that culture is a very big thing and you cant really understand it all at first time, and also to be cautious on how you judge people from different culture than you cause they might have many reasons you don't know.

we also learned to solve conflicts which happens during intercultural communication,
we saw that conflicts are likely inevitable they'll happen and it's up to us to solve them.

Talk is cheap show me the code

back to the coding work we rounded up the week with a team demo, which took place on Friday and presented our work to the Awesomity team and got some feedback to make the product better.

really time do fly but memories don't we are going in the last week of the task-force which i think it's went great and had a lot of good memories and gained more knowledge, i believe it left me a better professional than i was before.

let testing = new test()
testing.run()  //ooops unexpected error
testing.whyErrors()  //  but it was running before

Coding is fun when it's running week 4 taskforce 4.0

Dusabe Johnson — Mon, 22 Nov 2021 07:01:46 +0000

The Origins

We started the week with a lot of fun cause we started real coding stuff, where we set up the project and start working on the database setup and distributing task among the team,

after doing project setup and structure we continued with the session with Axel, which was about stress management and resilience.
we learned that stress is inevitable but how you cop with it is whats important, i also come to realize that stress comes from ignoring things you shouldn't ignore.

And continued with designing our end-point (API), where we focused more on the present entity and designed important Endpoints.

Team culture

We continued the week by learning about team culture especially team culture of awesomity, and codeofafrica

Communication in Agile

we wrapped up the week by learning about communication in agile environment.

And right after we ended the week with the team demo where as a team we did a demo of what we've been working on the whole week , and we got feedback and some changes to include to make our product better.

in general the week was great, as i'm an engineer i like hands one work and i did have a chance to do more of codding work.

All your Imaginations are real, week 3 Taskforce 4.0

Dusabe Johnson — Mon, 15 Nov 2021 12:09:01 +0000

All imaginations are real

The week started with an event storming session, where we learned to brainstorm and come up with all possible events that will happen in a particular project.

then from the events, we got during event storming were used to get DB entities and their attributes.

Team culture

We proceeded by learning more about team culture and had an exercise to do as a team

Communication

We continued with a session about communication learning what is communication and how to communicate well so as to be productive, The biggest lesson for me in this session is listening is actually harder than it seems if you listen well and ask questions, you are halfway there the rest is empathy and there you have it. you are good at communication.

ERD

We continued with creating an entity relation diagrams from the entities gathered in event storming and make sure we make a DB query that's work.

Code review

The week continued with learning why doing code review and how to properly do it.

The End

we wrapped up the week with a weekly demo where we presented everything we've been working on the whole week in teams.

My biggest takeaway this week would be communication is key in every professional environment to work. and in communication listening might be the hardest skill and some people just don't give it much value.

"When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know. But if you listen, you may learn something new" By Dalai Lama

it was insightful week in general and can't wait for the next week

Another superb week with taskForce 4.0

Dusabe Johnson — Sun, 07 Nov 2021 18:52:44 +0000

How big would you dream,if you knew you couldn't fail?

As we Dream big we must know the dream doesn't work it's up to Us to put in the work. Week 2 started with a little bit of coding with 2 codewars challenges which was fun and somehow challenging.

Presentation skills

We continued by having a session about how to prepare and deliver an awesome presentation where we saw key points to Keep in mind while preparing or delivering your presentation.

Git workflow

We proceed with Learning more about git workflow with the help of Yannick Awesomity CTO, where we saw the git workflow used in Awesomity and learned the pros and cons of some of the more used git workflows.

Software documentation

Then we turned some boring stuff into fun moment where we learned more about software documentation, normally is the boring part of many developer but we got to learn more about it, the reason for writing docs and also the best way of writing docs,Yannick also introduced us to pipelines concept which i wasn't too familiar with and learned new things.

The end

we finished up the week with learning containerization and it's benefits. and with a soft skill session with Axel where we identified our core values as a Team and got introduced to code of Africa core values.

The fun part was Friday afternoon where we had a presentation of what we've been working on the whole week. and right after we had a traditional dance class and had a lot of fun.

sudo apt install new-week

Task force 4.0 week 1 Experience

Dusabe Johnson — Sun, 31 Oct 2021 09:24:22 +0000

if it doesn't challenge you, it can never change you

The origin

It all starts Monday 25th Oct 2021 at 9:00 AM to be exact, where i got to meet all the Taskforce 4 team members, and have some information on how the program will go then the learning began.
where we started with team building session, learning to communicate inside the team in order to achieve success in our work, it really challenged me and learned that communication it's not only about talking.

we kicked the week going with a little bit of technical challenge which was to come out with user stories of a given project idea, where we had discussion as team to make sure we all understand the project in the same way,

Cultural differences

during week one we also discussed about cultural differences, different stereotypes and how it can affect in business setup, and some measures to tackle that issue.

Business Pitching

We finished up with a Business Pitching session where we pitched our project we've been working on thought the week and got feedback, on what to improve to have a successful journey with our project. and we got introduced to the awesomity lab team and codeofafrica team vice versa.

generally it was a awesome week and had a lot fun, i'm just curious on what next week will bring.

const nextWeek = new Week();
nextWeek.ready("bring it on!");

console.log("hooley")