Importance of teamwork

As software developers, we spend most of the time working together on a project with a group of other developers and It is crucial to know the benefits of teamwork to take the maximum advantage of it. Here are a few reasons that show that:

You can learn from others: Programming and research alone have not been my only source of knowledge, much of my current skills have been obtained thanks to the pairing that I have done with other teammates, I love it when I am programming together with another software developer and at some point I of any suggestions on how I can do what I am currently doing in some way, such as tricks that I can use in the text editor to speed up the work or even a javascript function that I didn’t know it existed before that is pretty handy to implement.

It diversifies possible solutions to a problem: When you are working together with several people you can get different points of view regarding the resolution of a problem, it has happened to me many times that I have an idea of how to implement a new feature in the project, and when I share that idea, the other programmers begin to question whether this is the best solution, and they even ask me questions about aspects of my proposal that do not seem correct. For some people, this may seem like a nightmare because they feel criticized but in reality, it is quite the opposite, it is very satisfying when a good solution is found as a team since this generates the security of many weak points that were eliminated during the discussion. For this reason, sharing ideas between the team is very valuable, you never know when someone has a better solution or a comment that can improve what you are currently doing.

Weaknesses are complemented: It is likely that some weakness that we have as software developers, another programmer is very good at it, for example, I have never been very good with graphic design, sometimes I find it difficult to create a view that is intuitive for the user, luckily I can have the help and feedback of other teammates, once the hearing is over I present it to them and ask for their opinions to know if the sight looks good or maybe there is something that is not easy to understand with the naked eye, all of this different point of view will improve the software and even more, for example, maybe you are not good yet to handle clients but I am good at it, so I can help you with that.

For these reasons it is very important to get the most out of teamwork because teamwork is more than simply having several people working on the same project, we must always take advantage of the advantages mentioned above and at the same time contribute to the team whenever may be possible