Here's how you can enhance your problem-solving and decision-making skills as a leader, software engineer!

One thing I've found to optimize my ability to break problems down into smaller, more manageable tasks, and that are both easier to understand and quicker to find solutions, was utilizing tools like Chat-GPT. You don't need the newest fastest model. All you need is a prompt (3 or 3.5 will work fine), tell your AI copilot that it's a "rubber duck from an Ivy League university having sit through 2000 computer science lectures, you're going to be my coding companion. Your job is to help me understand my problem, and assist me in understand my potential solutions". Feed it the questions you would normally ask yourself, and have a real dialog. Find the tools and resources that help you understand the problem, then break it down, and solve it.

La résolution de problèmes en ingénierie logicielle demande de la sérénité, de la rigueur, de l'ouverture d'esprit et de la persévérance. C'est un exercice exigeant mais essentiel pour produire des solutions fiables et pérennes.

Avoir une connaissance approfondie des différentes solutions possibles est primordial pour prendre la bonne décision. La démarche traditionnelle de résolution de problème n'est pas toujours suffisante. Il est parfois nécessaire de combiner plusieurs approches pour résoudre efficacement un problème complexe. En effet, se limiter à une seule méthode ou piste de réflexion peut s'avérer restrictif. Il est important de savoir explorer des alternatives, d'avoir une vision ouverte et créative face aux défis rencontrés. C'est en multipliant les perspectives, en testant différentes solutions, que l'on augmente les chances de trouver la réponse adéquate, celle qui résoudra durablement le problème initial.

This is should be at least one hour of your day (in my opinion.) This is what makes you more creative, tasks easier, problems more manageable, and keeps you further engaged with technology. Learning something new grows your brain, makes you a more sought after employee, and most importantly, prepares you for the wide varity of problems you may face while working as a software engineer. You must always stay on top of the technologies in this ever expanding industry. What works today, may not work tomorrow.

Il est évident que pour avoir les bonnes solutions aux problématiques, il faut sans cesse actualiser et renforcer ses compétences. Une application peu efficace des solutions provient bien souvent d'un manque de ma?trise des outils, des méthodes et des technologies les plus récentes. Se former régulièrement, se tenir informé des dernières innovations, c'est la clé pour rester pertinent et apporter une réponse adaptée aux enjeux du moment. Une expertise dépassée ou lacunaire empêche d'avoir la vision globale nécessaire pour identifier la solution optimale. C'est pourquoi il est crucial, pour tout professionnel, de consacrer du temps et des efforts à développer ses connaissances et ses savoir-faire.

This is an important and imperative step. Take this time to understand technological decisions you made. Why did you do that? Was there something you could have done better? Sometimes with code you can reflect and refactor. Optimizing the failures of your past decisions and sometimes you made the wrong call on your expected timeline for completion of a task, or maybe you just arrived to your stand up meeting late. Whatever it is, take the time to understand why it happened, how you can spend your time more efficiently, and even when you should have taken a moment to relax and recharge. This a valuable moment of figuring out how you can help make your life better and less stressful going forwards.

Adapt changes and be flexible to learn: an important aspect is your hunger to learn new skills and adapt well to the changes and technology know-how