Comments on: …From Musician to Software Developer… http://blog.m.artins.net/from-musician-to-software-developer/ On Agile Software Development Wed, 18 Aug 2010 13:20:15 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Lachlan http://blog.m.artins.net/from-musician-to-software-developer/comment-page-1/#comment-3 Lachlan Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:37:55 +0000 http://blog.m.artins.net/?p=44#comment-3 Both should be creative When you mature as either musician or dev you learn when not to play or when not to write code. I always played a lot of notes and wrote a lot of code. Now I'm a PM. Both should be creative

When you mature as either musician or dev you learn when not to play or when not to write code.

I always played a lot of notes and wrote a lot of code. Now I’m a PM.

]]> By: Mark Needham http://blog.m.artins.net/from-musician-to-software-developer/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Mark Needham Tue, 12 Aug 2008 07:08:50 +0000 http://blog.m.artins.net/?p=44#comment-2 Cool analogy...a colleague I worked with when I first started at ThoughtWorks would often talk about the idea of being on client site as being the big event and your time outside that as being the time to practice etc. I think working on open source gives you the opportunity to learn things in a safer environment than a client site, not that I do it! We never agreed on whether it was acceptable to use a technology at work that you didn't know inside out. My opinion was that it's ok to do that and learning as you go is part of software development whereas he argued that since the client was paying $$$ for you most of the learning should be in your own time. Cool analogy…a colleague I worked with when I first started at ThoughtWorks would often talk about the idea of being on client site as being the big event and your time outside that as being the time to practice etc.

I think working on open source gives you the opportunity to learn things in a safer environment than a client site, not that I do it!

We never agreed on whether it was acceptable to use a technology at work that you didn’t know inside out. My opinion was that it’s ok to do that and learning as you go is part of software development whereas he argued that since the client was paying $$$ for you most of the learning should be in your own time.

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