Soft skills & software design

© Elephant Scale

May 30, 2022

Overview

  • Whether you’re working in a large corporation, a small company, or even as a freelancer, the key to success is great communication.

  • Our workshop in communication skills allows you to build and refine your skills at communication and helps you to improve and perfect your interpersonal and presentation skills.

  • Our exercises use software building and team building as training ground and examples.

Audience

Developers, Architects

Duration

  • 1-2 days

Format

  • Lectures and hands-on labs. (50%, 50%)

Prerequisites

  • Comfortable with a programming language

Lab environment

  • A reasonably modern laptop
  • Unrestricted connection to the Internet. Laptops with overly restrictive VPNs or firewalls may not work properly
  • A browser (Chrome recommended)

Detailed outline

Introduction to soft skills

  • How to correct or change your mindset
  • Effective communication techniques
  • Etiquette required in the corporate environment

Software design process

  • Describe users in terms of roles and personas.
  • Write qualitative requirements with user stories.
  • Write quantitative requirements using key performance indicators (KPIs).
  • Use SMART criteria to evaluate your service requirements.
  • Determine appropriate SLOs and SLIs for your services.
  • Multiple design activities

Introduction to design with microservices

  • Decompose monolithic applications into microservices.
  • Recognize appropriate microservice boundaries.
  • Implement services using 12-factor best practices.