I joined a local software house and I was there for five years. For three of those years I was stuck in the basement doing VB (and I didn’t like VB). I wasn’t getting too well with one of my leaders, with looking for feedback and not getting it basically, with the usual result. The environment was very bad for my health, my eyesight, my optician recommended I get out of there. So I taught myself Java, because I realised it was quite heavily in demand in the industry and the software house had hardly any Java coders. And then I told some people that I’d learnt Java. Apparently there were about 6 other people in the company who had done the same thing and they put us on the Java project and I got off the horrible VB project.
Story 1
change for the better | courage | gaining choices | initiative | lack of feedback | lack of teamwork | leaders | learning | low risk | medium sized organization | multiple small teams | not at all about Agile | ownership | positive story about people | process is not a factor | respect | software for a different organization | software house | storyteller feels somewhat about the story | success | successful communication | teams talked directly to each other | the storyteller | told before socially and at work
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