Few Tips to Increase the Efficiency of Software Engineers
Welcome to my following experience-sharing discussion, which you must read as a Software Engineer. In this modern world, with the change of new technologies, It’s possible to go away from the good habits in your profession. What are those habits? What are we getting excepted? What should we polish, and what are the new practices?. These are the problems I want to solve here. You have to increase your efficiency by knowing about others’ experiences. That’s how to improve your life as a Software Engineer.
What is mean by efficiency mean?
First, we need to know the definition of the word efficiency. Here is the definition from Wikipedia.
Efficiency is the ability to avoid wasting materials, energy, efforts, money, and time in doing something or in producing a desired result. In a more general sense, it is the ability to do things well, successfully, and without waste. “Efficiency is thus not a goal in itself.
More simply, efficiency means achieving maximum productivity without wasting resources. In the developer’s case, the leading help is usually time. Efficient is not that we have to be very fast. It’s the things that we have to do properly. It allows you to save your time and see the path that you came and where you’re going is correct.
Focus Focus Focus
What are the interruptions Software developer have?. When we are focusing on a task, there have so many reasons to get interrupted. You can quickly remind what those matters are. It is not difficult to avoid them, and you must avoid them. Those interruptions badly influence because it is not easy to reload your focus on that ongoing task. Therefore we should minimize the number of interruptions to be efficient. There are two types of interruptions. The first one is the one we can handle, and others can take the other.
Notifications
Sometimes you may think that little pop-up doesn’t do anything for you. But the reality is that notification suddenly you see is a result of the evolution of humans to acting in sensible unexpected moments. So you cannot stop that behavior. So the first thing that efficient developers do is disable all notifications.
The Other Types of Interruptions
This kind of interruption happens outside of your control. So It may be hard to avoid them directly. But you can take some actions to mitigate them. The first case is when somebody comes to your desk and interrupts your flow. At that time you can wear big headphones while you are working. So when somebody comes, you pretend you didn’t see him and implicitly think he is just walking. The second option is to ignore that kind of person in your team.
Pair Programming
The benefit of pair programming is that because you have another developer looking at what you are doing all the time, you will not check the news, your phone, or your email as often. That peer pressure is just going to cause you to be more efficient. What I want to say is that avoid the interruption of others. When someone wants to talk to one developer for a few minutes, another developer can continue the work or reload the focus quickly.
Do One Thing at a Time
The reason is the same we hate interruptions. That is also important to increase the quality of work you have done. But keep in mind to lessen the time between two tasks(Context switching). We all know that the definition of multitasking is just screwing several things at the same time. So therefore, you should always focus on one thing. If you finish the current task, you can move to the next one.
Be an Expert in Handling Your IDE
The efficiency that you can use your IDE will be multiplied in every task you’re done because we are working thousands of hours in front of the IDE. You need to know two things. It is functionality and short-cuts. You have to know how to do tasks efficiently with the help of your IDE. For that, You can watch youtube videos or take a KT session from your team member. You can learn their tips and tricks, so you will make all things more efficient. It makes the whole team more efficient.
Finally, I want to say that, Stop reflecting on how you are working and never stop learning.
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