5 Correct Habits for a Web-Developer

Clarify Goals and Details

Develop the habit of clarifying goals and tasks. The human brain is arranged in such a way that it resists doing every incomprehensible work.

Therefore, before starting, ask yourself every time: do I understand exactly why I am doing this and what result I am waiting for? How well do I understand the task itself and the process of solving it? If the answer is not like “It is 100 percent clear what and when and what to do” then clarify the situation: specify details with the team leader, client, and teammates.

Here the principle works: if you do not understand the question asked then put it to yourself.

Remember the Business Sense of Tasks

Another good habit, partly related to the previous one, is to always find out what final benefits your actions will bring. In other words, if a web-developer does not understand who exactly he will make happier by developing this table or writing that function, then most likely he is screwing around. Do not write code for the sake of code: try to find out how your actions will help the business and its target audience. Even if the strategic goals are not spelled out in your requirements list.

This approach is to create clear and useful user stories. Each such story begins with the user’s need to do something and ends with some result that partially or fully satisfies his needs. The set of stories should fully cover all the possible interests of users in this niche. Only in such a situation, the project itself makes sense.

Do Not Reinvent the Wheel

A tip, especially useful for beginners: make a habit to use well-known approaches and templates, canonical solutions and software libraries for solving problems. To do this, you need to actively seek, study and process, experience in real projects. Doing this you solve several problems at once: save time and your own strengths, solve problems in proven ways and study the experience gained by other developers for you. Of course, you should not include a whole framework in the project for the sake of a single function, but you should not invent, for example, your own array sorting algorithm as well, if this is not the aim of the project.

Keep Abreast of It Events

Another good habit associated with the previous one. You should use templates to perform tasks, you need to find them, and for this — constantly monitor everything that happens in your web-development area.

Make a habit of reading useful articles, books, channels on social networks at least for half an hour a day. Every day you need to “discover” at least one new technology or useful news. It is also considered good practice to go out at least once a month: to attend meetings, speeches of famous specialists, hackathons, and conferences. Well, or at least just spend the evening in a friendly atmosphere with colleagues. In addition to relaxing in all these cases, you will have a great opportunity to make new acquaintances and exchange experiences.

Develop an Emotional Intelligence

The habit of not condemning, but entering into the position of another person, regardless of the adequacy of his appeal to you, can often do a good job. “To understand a criminal, think like a criminal,” investigators say among themselves, and this is the right advice for absolutely all people.