Working This Way Alone

Most of it still applies, at a smaller scale. You are the learner and you are also the person taking this course, which usually means working alone or in a pair.

What still helps on your own: writing work down as small pieces with a clear finish, working in fixed time boxes, keeping a visible list of what is in progress, and stopping periodically to ask what is not working.

What does not: elaborate estimation ceremonies, roles that exist to coordinate between teams, and any meeting whose only output is another person knowing what you did.

The one habit worth taking from this whole course. Finish things.

A half-built feature is worth nothing, cannot be tested, and is a liability if you leave it. Working in small complete pieces means at every moment you have something that works, which is also the only way an unfinished project is still a portfolio piece.