How to be a better professional

With this title we are making obvious that we are currently working under professional environment so, how to make everyday count?

There are not a formula for being something, there are not exact instructions just to accomplish your dreams, or making yourself a better person, but we are very aware of very good habits and behaviors that will help us on our everyday journey, how to be better everyday on the industry.

1. Be proactive: university is to learn the good and solid basics of software development, the different techniques and few concepts that make sense at the end just to create good software, but we should never stop there, this is a huge market with a very competitive environment, therefore is really good to keep yourself proactive.
2. Awareness of time: time is the most valuable thing for us, time can be transformed into our goals or our failure, we should make ourselves aware of using the time, tools like Toggl help us to track out efficiency on time, a timer can be helpful reminding us that we need to make use of this time correctly.
3. Collaboration: the collaboration between developers or any peer on Pernix is actually a sing of success, on my very personal experience I have never get used to collaborate with teammate most of the time you need to prove any task by yourself, and yes this should be the happy path, but most of the time, there are no gap to either keep yourself learning faster than asking for 20 min explanation to a peer facing a similar issue or if you want to have a moment to see a new technology in action and learning it, this make software development so exciting because you can see all of the new thing you could try and learn.
4. Retrospective: everyday at any time of the day, we should take a moment to think and route ourselves to the correct set of goals we have, also we should think of what we’ve done our “done” status, and obviously apply all of the other recommendations to make the next task a better one.

There are not formula and most of these points are my personal experience, and what I’ve hear during the years, and also what I’ve seen; I’ve meet people with awesome technical skills and a good capacity to solve problems, but most of the times these kind of genius people know how to communicate, knows how to treat people and inside them are this necessity of being a better everyday.