Teema 8. Write a brief summary of the IT professional in Estonia (as of today; required prerequisites, features and skills)
My experience with IT professionals in Estonia is coming from pure "business consumer" side: normally i have a business problem that needs resolving and IT is one of the tools, among many others, that can be used to resolve it.
Therefore i will be outlining my view current level of IT professionals in Estonia from this angle. Most likely biased and limited with one person's experience, working with internal IT departments of several companies, plus several external IT development companies. But nonetheless practical experience.
One of the strongest sides i see almost universally - is the no-nonsense approach: IT professionals clearly want to understand the business problem, not afraid to ask questions, and looking for very practical (efficient and fast) ways to solve the problem. To the point that this can be almost described as "growth hacking it". The waterfall approach, traditional for historical software companies in the past, is almost not used anymore. The main focus is on time to live, learning from mistakes, doing next development cycle etc.
From this comes second biggest strength, we are all so used to in Estonia, our IT developments are genuinely FAST. Speaking with colleagues from other markets I do often hear that their IT projects delivery time is 6-9 months. In Estonia we are getting a bit annoyed if the project is not delivered after 2-3 weeks. Small projects are "expected" to be delivered in a week or so. Urgent ones delivered within 1-2 days - not unheard of.
Combined with the quality of software solutions (see previous point) no wonder that Estonia is IT startup hub of Europe.
Some of the typical minuses that i encounter in Estonia IT landscape quite often:
- almost universal lack of documentation skills or focus on it.
- almost universal lack of training skills or focus on delivery to users
Since the topics of our discussion today is "professionalism" and these little things that separate just a good programmer from real professional - ability to understand that its not the code that is all-important, but the usage of software product by business to solve business problem. Its the implementation of the software product into work processes and training to users - these 3 small things make or break the success of IT project.
What other prerequisites I would expect from an IT professional in Estonia ?
- knowledge of best practices
- ability to offer better solution/stack/platform to improve support or upgrades in the future
Therefore i will be outlining my view current level of IT professionals in Estonia from this angle. Most likely biased and limited with one person's experience, working with internal IT departments of several companies, plus several external IT development companies. But nonetheless practical experience.
One of the strongest sides i see almost universally - is the no-nonsense approach: IT professionals clearly want to understand the business problem, not afraid to ask questions, and looking for very practical (efficient and fast) ways to solve the problem. To the point that this can be almost described as "growth hacking it". The waterfall approach, traditional for historical software companies in the past, is almost not used anymore. The main focus is on time to live, learning from mistakes, doing next development cycle etc.
From this comes second biggest strength, we are all so used to in Estonia, our IT developments are genuinely FAST. Speaking with colleagues from other markets I do often hear that their IT projects delivery time is 6-9 months. In Estonia we are getting a bit annoyed if the project is not delivered after 2-3 weeks. Small projects are "expected" to be delivered in a week or so. Urgent ones delivered within 1-2 days - not unheard of.
Combined with the quality of software solutions (see previous point) no wonder that Estonia is IT startup hub of Europe.
Some of the typical minuses that i encounter in Estonia IT landscape quite often:
- almost universal lack of documentation skills or focus on it.
- almost universal lack of training skills or focus on delivery to users
Since the topics of our discussion today is "professionalism" and these little things that separate just a good programmer from real professional - ability to understand that its not the code that is all-important, but the usage of software product by business to solve business problem. Its the implementation of the software product into work processes and training to users - these 3 small things make or break the success of IT project.
What other prerequisites I would expect from an IT professional in Estonia ?
- knowledge of best practices
- ability to offer better solution/stack/platform to improve support or upgrades in the future
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