What this book covers
This book is divided into three main parts, each having a few chapters to help you fulfill the aim of advancing your technical career. Here’s a brief overview of what each part covers:
- Part 1, The Basics: Learn and Practice Technical Skills: Career growth in the technology world involves being great at a technical level. Although the technical side is not everything, and sometimes not even the thing that will make your career grow, it is needed to be part of the game. Part 1 will help you go deep into the technical side and get you ready to advance your career faster and farther.
- Part 2, Get Involved: Participate in the Community: Although developing your technical skills is a great step, to have an amazing career, you need to go beyond technical skills. Software development is a team effort, and being able to work together with others is a required skill that puts you at the next level. If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go farther, go together (an African proverb). Building a career is playing the long game. We are not here for the fast, short sprint, but long-term unique results. Part 2 will prepare you for the long run.
- Part 3, Create Impact: Share and Lead: Now that you know how to establish long-term relationships that will drive your career forward, it is time to take the last step: position yourself as a leader, to break all limits in your career growth. Part 3 will discuss advanced actions you can take that will differentiate you in the market and transform the lives of people around you.
Developer Career Masterplan involves constant growth, a constant feedback loop. You learn and then practice your knowledge. You can network with your peers, and share what you learned. This will open more possibilities for learning, practicing, networking and sharing. This loop will take your career to great projects, and amazing positions. You will grow to senior levels, and beyond.
As you can see in the image below, the three parts of this book have chapters covering each step of the masterplan. You will start with learning and practicing. As you progress, you will do more networking and sharing. This masterplan can be applied over and over, always resulting in career growth. Each step, described in detail in the corresponding chapters, builds on and reinforces the other steps, to help you build your career path, to take you where you want to go.
