Partial Reflection

Guest speakers

Our guests have helped us understand a little more about the different topics in the class, complemented by those we read in the novel about software manager. The guests are prepared and guide us towards the topics, since many times we can read things or watch a video to be able to know about it, but nothing better than someone who handles the topic and can give us examples to imagine situations.

For example, our first guest who explained us about personal finances, is something very important because you must know how to manage our money and know how to make it grow too. This topic for me was very important because it made me think about what I was doing for my future investment and even though I don’t have a job, the money that sometimes I have left over from what my parents give me, because I save it. But after this talk I realized that if it was the right thing to save it but in the future that money would not have the same value, this is why it had to be invested in order to grow and not stay the same. I talk about how we should manage our salaries to have money for our retirement, since it is important to raise money for the retirement, also of the different investments that we could make and especially the compound interest that is calculated on the main amount and also on the accumulated interest of previous periods.

Within the first talk we touched on economics, it was not software economics but they are related to the fact that the same definitions are used, this talk and the definitions of economics would have served me well for my kind of entrepreneurship, to be able to manage the costs of project in a proper way. This is where I see why it is important to take this type of classes, since we should not only know about programming, algorithms, etc., we should also know how we are going to be able to carry out a good project from the beginning to the end, it is like a building to my way of thinking if you don’t have good feelings the building could fall. We must know everything because in the future we may be in front of a team leading a project and we must act to carry out the project.

Our second guest explained to us about how to be a project manager, and what skills we must have in order to become one. But in one of the questions, she answered that we should apply to the interships offered by large companies such as Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc. These are great opportunities for us as students because it is going to meet a company, work for that company and get to know a new place and, above all, add something else to the CV. This made me think that throughout my career I have wasted being able to apply to some intership, for fear of being rejected, but the truth is that, if you stay or not, it is an experience that can be enriching and will help you to be best.

Our third guest also talked about project management but more focused on video games to give us another perspective, it was very interesting because it gave us a lot of very complete information and gave us a lot of information that at least I did not know about the video game industry Despite a huge fan of video juices, I have only seen how they evolve but I have never really seen how it really is. But a point that became very important to me was the humane treatment for the team members, this is important because you have to make all the members feel useful, they are physically and mentally well, because depending on how they are, it is that they are going to pay at work and that is why it is always important to be aware of them, because companies often see them as tools and not as people. Also as video games are going to different models to get the most money possible, if not, they would not be profitable, most of the current games have microtransactions, they do not affect the gameplay, but if they make people want everything that could come out in the game store.

Lectures

At first the novel seemed strange to me, I did not know how a novel was going to help us understand what we see in class, but I was wrong, when passing the chapters many points were coming out, it was not just reading for reading, some of the points that were mentioned about IEEE and also about quality are very important topics that I remember from my quality and software testing class. El capitulo en el cual se menciona el The world’s first Project Management Laboratory, para mi fue muy raro, ya que no comprendia como se iba a llevar acabo todo esto, pero poco a poco en ese y los demas capitulos comprendi que se queria desmostrar con esto.

The readings have helped me understand various aspects of software manager, which are very important. Before knowing this class I had a different idea than software manager, I thought that it is only directing a project and that’s it, but not if it is directing a project but you have to get involved in different things, choose team leaders, the times of delivery, money for the project, finding new people, etc. An important point of the reading was when the 4 characteristics for hiring someone are mentioned, I think they are fundamental and need to be carried out, but few know about them. The people around you must also be in tune with what you think, in order to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the project. Planning is important since it is not only saying if I have it in two weeks, because those two weeks could become 3 months or more, everything must be planned to deliver everything on time.

The readings have been enriching both to strengthen my English and to strengthen the topics of the class, the magic of reading is the way things are told to you and how they develop, it is a novel that I am enjoying, Despite the fact that at the beginning I was disavowing them now it is pleasing me and I already want to know how the story will end.