Am I a team player? Sure, but in order to be an effective team player, you need to be a properly balanced person in the first place. If you aren't, you are likely to be the weak link in the chain of the team's work . So, in order to become a better professional I made myself a sidekick to assist in my job. And it all came from wanting to help others be better at their job. Like helping a friend who is a teacher by writing her a program to help deal with her administrative duties. That both helps her and gives me something to doo which I love . And with a new job coming up, and time to spend on imporovement before it started, I also wrot myself a program to help me do my job better .
Because let's face it, in our software oriented professional environment , we are constantly looking for answers in one program or the other , and you don't want to link them together in more ways than is absolutely necessary . I know working Agile will most likely mean I have to use Jira to know the tasks I have to work on, and Confluence to document things , but there is no specific tool I can use easily to keep a log of what I did when, and how long I worked on what. And yet, every week or month my employer will ask me to fill in an administrative reckoning of what I did in the past period...
