Honing Technical Development Skills

• Practicing 4 Rules of Simple Design
• Writing self-documenting and expressive code
• Learning effective problem solving skills
• Breaking down problems into smaller chunks
• Exploring alternative ideas and design techniques in a "safe-to-fail" environment
• Trying Test-driven-development techniques

Improving self-organising capability

• Building better collaboration and communication skills
• Reducing key-person dependency
• Embracing uncertainty

• Pairing helps in exchange of ideas and trying newer ways
• Acceptance of others ideas and thoughts
• Solving bigger problems by slicing into smaller chunks
• Appreciation for different programming languages/paradigm
• Trying alternative approach to designing and solving problems
• Practice 4 Rules of Simple Design
• Focus on naming conventions and self-documenting code
• Unit testing without TDD at first and with TDD for later iterations