Comments on "Software Craftsmanship with Bob Martin"

Software craftsmanship is when new people get involved in the software development industry, and can learn from the previous experiences of the people already involved, these persons become mentors to those with little of none experience in the field and creates a growing opportunity in the software community, where some people help others and at the same time are been mentored by others and so on. This cycle generates a growing potential and enables people to learn new things.

Some disciplines like computer programming can sometimes be tedious to this king of practices, because the knowledge needed is not just something you can learn from voice to voice, and requires experience in the field to fully understand how things are done and how certain things work. This doesn't mean it’s impossible to mentor someone with little experience in a certain area of the computer software development process. This can become a collective success opportunity if executed in the right way.

The “Manifesto of Software Craftsmanship” is a great example in how advises and tips from someone with the right experience can change and become something of a huge impact. A simple tip can reflect on better software quality and therefore higher product value. By doing this as a community we can all improve from small things to huge things that will have an enormous impact on software development projects.

Having the initiative to ask for advice from somebody that has a lot of expertise in a certain area and being able to give such advice to someone who is in the process of learning or is new in the industry, can sometimes make a difference between starting with the right foot than starting with the wrong foot. It is always comforting to have advice from someone who has already done mistakes in the process of developing software, in order to avoid making such mistakes ourselves. This way we can grow personally, professionally and as a community.