So You’re a Software Developer, Now What? Exploring Career Growth
summary
Argues that career growth is best treated like product‑market fit with a concrete five stages process (know company, company needs, know self, brainstorm, agree plan), shows tools used like a career vectors spider diagram (six vectors: hands‑on tech, strategy, delivery, org management, commercial, domain), uses the double diamond for divergent then convergent brainstorming, gives practical 1:1 agenda "cheat codes", and warns about type‑casting and how planning beats fixed plans.
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chapters (22)
- 0:00Intro
- 3:47Focusing on your current workplace
- 5:09My career growth is my boss's responsibility
- 5:42My career growth is my responsibility
- 6:04Careers are for ambitious people
- 7:32Product Market Fit
- 10:16Levels/roles - job ladder
- 10:49What informal roles are there? ?
- 11:23What roles will be needed in the near future?
- 12:41Career growth means becoming a perfect programmer
- 13:02Programming skill is only one part of seniority
- 14:38Career vectors example
- 16:36Pace, people, prestige, profit and learning
- 18:09What do I want?
- 19:52Know how you are perceived -ask for feedback
- 20:46Design thinking's 'Double Diamond
- 22:25There is one (maybe two) career paths
- 23:10Developer' is not the only role in software
- 24:22I can't take a new path, my path is set
- 24:49Learning opens new paths
- 27:13Career planning means following the plan
- 27:29Plans are nothing, planning is everything
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