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Daniel Madalitso Phiri
Daniel Madalitso Phiri

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Explain the path from Idea to Production like I'm Five

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Hi! I did this post..

..and I think I used the wrong tags, do you think you folks could help me out with understanding the path from idea to production like I'm five.

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Daniel Madalitso Phiri •

I'll check out the book. That some really great advice by the way. I'm trying to find some fellow travellers as you said because I think I can't be accountable to myself yet. It's something I'm working on though. That was something I had no idea I needed. Although, I also wanted some technical help or advice specifically on things to look out for when deploying a project. Like you said, I can code and all that but what next? CI/CD? Maintenance? I'm completely blank

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Judith •

One thing I always do prior to beginning to code is the "Rubber Duck" method. Basically you speak to the duck, carefully explaining every single detail of your project. Each step, each bit of logic, how you will organize it into code and what order it will go in your workflow. Gives me great clarity.

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Daniel Madalitso Phiri •

This is awesome! I feel like I've been really missing out on conceptualizing everything and getting a clear image of what I'm actually building and what will be needed. I'm copying the "Rubber Duck" method :D

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Judith •

Great news!!

 
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Daniel Madalitso Phiri •

Hi, first of all, thank you so much for all the gems you dropped and all the time you took out to clearly explain everything. Things are getting less and less cloudy and I can see what the way forward is and what decisions I'll have to make going forward. Never heard on Now, looks like pretty nice.

Also, thanks for the insight on testing and CI, its something I've never done. Really nice boiled down explanation.

I have DM'ed you about the Slack channel. Seems like a really cool community.