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As a developer and later a technical architect, I have been doing software development for almost nine years after I graduated from school. I witnessed the fast evolvement of new technologies, for example, from Java Applet in the early days to AJAX recently in front end field and from EJB to Spring in the business logics field. However, the process we do software development changes much slower. In one organization, the same process is usually used for all types of projects, from new and complicate multi-year projects to simple and repetitive bug fix releases. I feel the knowledge we have in software development processes are way behind the knowledge we have in technologies. To me, the software development process and methodologies are more fundamental and important than specific technologies. Because it affects the entire lifecycle of software development project, the entire software development team and every aspects of the software product.
I started to work for a new manager last year. The first thing my new boss asked me to do is to buy this book, “StrengthsFinder 2.0“, and take the test online. He assured me I would like that. Obviously, he took the test himself before and it has been tremendously helpful to his own career growth.
I bought the book, certainly. The introduction section explained why they think people should focus on their strengths instead of their weaknesses.
Their reasons are simple:
- No one is perfect. We are all naturally good at something and fall short on other things.
- It’s our talents and strength that makes out standout, in a good way. Not the shortcomings.
- We are more engaged and happy when working with our strengths than working with our shortcomings.
- It’s more efficient to develop our strengths than to remedy our shortcomings.
By the way, they are a group of psychologists working for Gallup, holding Ph.D and Master degrees in Psychology.
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