Bett Correa

The Zen of Software Development: a Seven Day Journey: a Handbook to Enlightened Software Development by Bett Correa

Publisher Marketing: Do you dream of working on a team of enlightened people who create software which users love? Stop dreaming and start living! This book will get you started on your journey. Zen is now ready to overtake our offices and enable our teams to create software together. I have laid out exercises you can do alone or with your team members to create a new awareness and Group Mind. I've spent over 15 years in software development and gone from being a web developer, to a DBA, to a project manager, to a business analyst, to an end to end solutions architect, and a product owner. The pattern I see repeated over and over again is teams missing deadlines, unhappy users, buggy code, and over-budget software. The reasons I blame for this are also the same time and time again: teams fighting, not understanding each other, being stuck in the past, not understanding the users, and overall stressful team environments. This small handbook lays out a step-by-step process to create a new awareness, first in yourself and then, you'll be surprised to notice, in your team members. I don't waste time on a lot of theory but focus on the facts. The layout is a seven day guide in which you have one small chapter to read each day with an exercise to help give you an awareness of the present. There is also a meditation to practice each day. Contributor Bio:  Correa, Bett Bett Correa, author of two books, professional public speaker, Distinguished Toastmaster and former Presidents Distinguished Division Governor in Toastmasters and winner of Division Governor of the Year award, has been in IT since 1999, first as a developer then 7 years ago she became a Solutions Architect at Verizon. Bett also cohosts the Software Architecture Concepts Podcast. Now, she is driving Customer Experience Architecture at Verizon to improve the processes and the customer experience and the manager of the IT Verizon Leadership Development Program. Her books are available on Amazon.com and Audible.com. Bett also freelances as a "Book Project Manager" to help "authors-in-the-making" make their dreams of being a published author a reality.