7 HABITS OF HIGHLY INEFFECTIVE DEVELOPERSKitson P. Kelly (@kitsonk) - CTO @SitePen

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➤CTO at SitePen ➤Project Lead for Dojo 2 ➤Formally ran technology for

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1. FOMO

➤The Fear of Missing Out

defined as a fear of regret, which may lead to a compulsive concern that one might miss an opportunity for social interaction, a novel experience, profitable investment or other satisfying events

2. ERGO A BLOG LEGERE…

➤ “Lots of people are using…” ➤ “Hooli built…” ➤ “Exciting news! Meteor is now

one of the top ten most-starred projects on all of GitHub.”

3. “BECAUSE MANAGEMENT SAYS…”

➤ Absolving responsibility because “someone made me do it…”

➤ There are right ways and wrong ways though to land this message.

➤ (Most) People don’t get up in the morning to do a crappy job.

4. FALLACY OF COMPOSITION

➤ The fallacy of composition arises when one infers that something is true of the whole from the fact that it is true of some part of the whole (or even of every proper part).

➤ “I am going to stand up at the concert to get a better view” says everyone and we all end up back at the start.

5. THE EXPERT BEGINNER

➤Someone who makes a career out of always being semi-competent and never mastering anything…

DREYFUS MODEL OF SKILL ACQUISITION

Novice

Advanced Beginner

Competent

Proficient

Expert

https://pragprog.com/book/ahptl/pragmatic-thinking-and-learning

DREYFUS MODEL OF SKILL ACQUISITION

Novice

Advanced Beginner

Competent

Proficient

Expert

Expert Beginner

http://www.daedtech.com/how-developers-stop-learning-rise-of-the-expert-beginner/

6. UN-SELF AWARE

➤ Constantly Defensive ➤ Must Micromanage ➤ Make Excuses ➤ You have been called a bully more

than once ➤ You’re in denial

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/5-signs-you-lack-self-awareness-joanne-love

PERSONALITY

Extrovert Introvert

Thinking Feeling

INSIGHTS

Red (E-T)

Yellow (E-F)

Blue (I-T)

Green (I-F)

https://www.insights.com/

https://www.16personalities.com/

7. ACTIVELY DISENGAGED

➤Not only unhappy, but a vicious halo of melancholy that effects others. Maybe prone to actively undermining others.

➤Do you and everyone around you a favour and go do something else, please!

7 HABITS OF HIGHLY INEFFECTIVE DEVELOPERS

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