Wind forwards over a year from my last post on this topic, but throughout that time I find that education has been constantly in my thoughts. Whether it is my daughter going through college, or the study circles that are a popular feature of Baha'i activities, or the discussions at work on staff performance reviews, I cannot get away from the subject of learning.
What started as a simple question relating to peer review of computer code has moved, through a simple observation by myself, into a discussion on opportunities for staff development and training. All I did was to suggest that it should not be limited to one member of staff review the work of one other member in the same team. Perhaps, said I, that if a group of staff from several teams met together, they could learn from the different approaches to coding and testing that had been taken by other teams.
"Forget your own selves and turn your eyes towards your neighbour. Bend your energies to whatever may foster the education of men." Baha'i Writings
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Hmmmmm, you cannot get away from the subject learning, eh?
Why do you you want to?
Surely, those of us with an open mind are in a state of learning every day of our lives. Is that such a bad thing?
Surely development is a good thing. If the world stood still, we would all be living in caves, wearing the skins of unfortunate animals and eating raw meat and ferns.
Time doesn’t stand still, it is constantly moving and if we as a people don’t move with it we get left behind.
You should look on learning as a good thing and consider yourself the catalyst for
getting yourself and your colleagues better trained and equipped to deal with your daily tasks.
Personally, I think that the world needs more people like yourself Godfrey. Question the status quo and advancements will be made and you can view yourself as a true pioneer in the area of software development and testing.
"Science is supposedly the method by which we stand on the shoulders of those who came before us. In computer science, we all are standing on each others' feet." — G. Popek.
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