New Programmer's Survival Manual

Tip 28

Appreciate the Circle of (a Product’s) Life

[​​Brown Belt] While you’ll bury yourself in small-picture tasks at first, understanding the place of your project in the big-picture timeline will become important to your daily decision making.

Every product and service begins as a spark of inspiration in somebody’s head. It’s a long road between there and version 1.0, and longer still to version 10.0. This tip will take you on a tour of the life cycle for a product from a programmer’s perspective.

The big-picture of a successful product ...