5 Ways To Quantify Your Coding Skills

Some People finds it easy when it comes to quantifying their job performance.For Example Sales person can measure their performance in dollars($) and cents.Marketing Guys can measure it by calculating their target.

But when it comes to Software Developers it becomes sort of question mark. How to Measure the coding skills..?

So how do we can value the application we develop, scale, Test, or Monitor.

Here are the some pretty good approaches which each of us can take to "Quantify our Skills".

1.ALWAYS THINK IN PERCENTAGES(%):

Because programmers can't point directly to numbers or figures like revenue,profit and loss. But that doesn't means that we can't put some percentage to mark ourselves.

Always try to measure yourselves in context to percentage. Try to evaluate what things you have gone through in each project.Try to make note on those and analyse your development.

 2.GET INVOLVED WITH THE OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS:

Open Source Projects are the best way to measure yourselves. Try to find work in Open Source Projects because mostly it lets you to involve with others of the same industry and give you a chance to measure yourselves in compare to others which is not actually good in every condition but we are coders we have no choice we do it other way always ;) .

Open Source also gives you a platform for sharing knowledge and skills.

3.ALWAYS MEASURE YOUR PROGRESS NOT PRODUCTS:

Sometimes it takes time.It might be possible that despite of all your efforts you are not able to complete the project on time.But that doesn't count on the roads of your skill development. You just take a look back and count what are the things that you have learned, that's important!.

4.ALWAYS KEEP A JOURNAL:

If you want to prove the value you and your applications will provide. You need some efforts to make your hard labor count. So its always a good practice to make a journal of your project and your development.On the road what was your problems and how you overcome it. This will also help you in future if you face the problem.

5.COLLECT RECOMMENDATIONS:

If you are getting recognized for specific skills and accomplishments,make sure you collect those recommendations.Here linkedin can be a good platform for your help.

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