Software Craftsmanship

Bob Martin gave an interview about craftsmanship software and agile software techniques, which are directly correlated, because craftsmanship tries to up the developers skills and the agile software techniques are the ways a developer could improve them. Bob also thinks that they have a lot in common.

Bob talks about how we, as developers, get the craftsmanship of the software when we are in our jobs, in some sort of trial and error manner, this happens as we are building our skillset so we can build better code faster, but Bob thinks the developers need to learn this things on school, so instead of trial and error, it could be more like an educated guess. I’ve learned a lot of nontechnical things on my jobs, things that may take too much time to put them on a course, also, seen those things in practice helps clarifying a lot of things a developer may not understand with the theory.

We also try to develop our agile software techniques so we can solve our coding problems faster. Companies learn from their and others mistakes, so they create standards to ensure the employees get the right focus on the right skills, so they get small things done very quickly, making easier the error detection. This agile techniques, allow developers to get things done in less time and focus on bigger problems.

Not all college developers have a good craftsmanship, because not all have the opportunity to get a job o just don’t want or have the time, but this skills are necessary for the developer to get their work environment ready in no time when they get their first job, that’s the reason students need to get that experience from bigger college projects or projects that are not necessarily part of any course.