Stage 6 · Lesson 6 of 7
Learning the business domain
Every product serves a domain, an area of business such as payments, logistics, healthcare or education. Each domain has its own terms, rules and users. Engineers with make fewer wrong assumptions and get trusted with bigger problems sooner.
Keep a glossary of business terms in your notes. Ask a or support colleague to walk you through a typical customer's day. Read support tickets for your area, and use the product the way customers do.
When you pick up a ticket, ask who it helps and why now. This turns code changes into business results you can describe in your .
Common traptreating the domain as someone else's job and building exactly what the ticket said, even when it makes no sense for users.
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Resources for this stage
Start with· follow one of these
- BookFreeSoftware Engineering at Google
Titus Winters, Tom Manshreck and Hyrum Wright · Intermediate
Free online: the chapters on knowledge sharing and testing show how strong teams learn and work
- BookPaidThe Pragmatic Programmer
Hunt and Thomas · Intermediate · About $45
Habits for learning, debugging and owning your work that last a whole career
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