Employability and Professional Development Report - Software Developer

This report delves into the crucial aspects of employability and professional development for software developers, focusing on the context of Antics Technologies. It begins with a self-assessment of current skills against industry standards and company goals, identifying development needs in technical, communication, and problem-solving areas. The report includes a detailed development plan outlining strategies for skill enhancement, such as communication courses and technical training. It analyzes different communication styles within a company and explores effective time management techniques. The report also examines team dynamics, the roles individuals play, and alternative approaches to achieve project objectives. Furthermore, it reviews tools and methods used in software implementation and proposes strategies for resolving specific barriers, evaluating their potential business impact. The conclusion summarizes the key findings and reinforces the importance of continuous professional growth for software developers.

Employability and professional development

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
1.1 Evaluation of own current skills and competencies against professional standards for the
software developer in Antics technologies and against the company goal............................1
1.2 development needs for the software developer and the activities required to meet them 2
1.3 Development plan ............................................................................................................2
1.4 Reflection on own development against original aim and objective set in the personal and
professional development.......................................................................................................3
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................4
2.1 various styles of communication......................................................................................4
2.2 Effective time management strategies..............................................................................5
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................6
3.1 Analysis the team dynamics and the roles people play within the team and how they are
working together to get desire objective ...............................................................................6
3.2 Alternatives ways to complete the task and get team goal during the development of the
software project .....................................................................................................................7
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................7
4.1 Review of tools and method which occur during the implementation of a software.......7
4.2 appropriate strategies for resolving a specific barrier......................................................8
4.3 Evaluation of potential impact on the business of implementing the strategy.................9
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
Skills and knowledge is the most important for the professional development. Antics
technology company provides the software to the customers. They innovate their software based
on the consumer requirements. For the software developer they must have different skills such as
technical, communication and problem solving skills. By improving theses skills the person can
easily get desired goal and increase the profitability of the team members. For the successful
software development the manager has a responsibility to provide appropriate environment and
give essential resources to an employee in the company. They also follow different types of time
management strategies to mange their work and get higher performance in the world. This report
includes skills for personal and professional development, dynamic roles of team player,
strategies of time management and budgeting management.
TASK 1
1.1 Evaluation of own current skills and competencies against professional standards for the
software developer in Antics technologies and against the company goal
Antics firm provides different and advanced software to the customers in the world. They
innovate their products and services based on the customer requirements. It also give best quality
software to the client to increase entity performance and productivity in the world. It is one of the
best software company in UK (Rienties, Brouwer and Lygo-Baker, 2013). As a software
developer, they must have understanding the concepts of the languages, technical skills and
problem solving skills which help to do their work in the company. Some of the skills that help
to get desired objective of an entity as follows:
Technical knowledge
I have good technical knowledge about the programming languages such as Java, C++
etc. for the post of software developer I should have appropriate knowledge about the software
development life cycle, hardware, software, operating systems and computer related
technologies. Various companies uses different technologies for the software development
(Capps, Crawford and Constas, 2012).
Problem solving skills
Every developer have this skills because by having this skill I can easily solve any type of
problem. If I do not have this skill then I will be not able to write accurate code in any language.
Problem solving skills provides the way to code any program in any language (Frost, 2012).
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Communication skills
I have a good communication skill which helps to convey the appropriate information
and facts about the software. Communication skills are most essential for the developer because
they need to provide effective information to the manager and the management. They also give
information to the team member for the work.
1.2 development needs for the software developer and the activities required to meet them
For the development in any area they need enhance their knowledge and skills which
helps to get desired target of the company. Some of the development needs that help to get
desired objective of an entity as follows:
Technical skills
By improving my technical skills I can easily code any program in programming
language. Technical skills include different elements such as understanding the problem,
concepts, programming languages etc. This comes under the technical skills which help to
increase the efficiency of the work (Hudson, 2013). For the improvement and development of
technical skills I need to take appropriate training and development which help to increase my
professional development level in the firm.
Communication skills
Communication skill is more important for the software developer person must have this
skill. I need to share my information about the software to the manager and the team members so
I must have good communication skills which help to provide appropriate and effective data to
the manager. I need to develop my communication skills to increase the profitability of the group
performance in the company.
1.3 Development plan
Needed skills How to develop the needed
skills
Time duration
Communication skills I need to take various
communication courses and
involve in different
conferences are helpful to
improve my communication
skills continue
2 months
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communication with the
group members that will also
help to improve my this skill
()Erickson, Noonan, and
McCall, 2012. I should also
take appropriate training and
development for the
communication skills which
are more beneficial for me to
improve my skill.
Technical skills I should take technical
courses to improve my
technical knowledge. I also
should learn some advanced
language of the programming
which helps to increase my
knowledge in the technical
area (Gregory and et.al.,
2014).
3 months
Problem solving skills It is essential and important
skills for the developer
because by having this skill
only they can easily code the
program. By doing the group
work I can easily enhance
my this skill
3 months
1.4 Reflection on own development against original aim and objective set in the personal and
professional development
There are different types of tools and techniques which help- to increase the personal and
professional development. For the job position of software developer I need to improve my
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different skills and knowledge such as communication, problem solving and technical skills.
These skills are most important for the job role. I must have enhanced knowledge in technical
area. By improving my technical knowledge I can easily code any program in any programming
languages. For the improvement of theses skills I need to take appropriate and effective training
from the college or institute.
Communication skills
I need to join various communication courses to improve my communication skills. By
improving my communication skills I can easily get higher performance and productivity in the
world. For the software development in need to communicate with my team member and to the
manager to explain my innovative idea about the project. By explaining the project aim then only
I can also get company goal in the world. Fore the development of the software project I need to
communicate with my group members and I need to explain about my projects so I must have
good communication skills in the company.
Technical and problem solving skills
For the effective coding in any language I need to identify the problem, select an
appropriate method, evaluating and selecting. These all are the factors that are included in the
problem solving skills. I have good knowledge in technical area and I can easily code in any
programming languages. I need learn some advanced and enhanced programming languages
such as Java, C++ which helps to increase my technical skills and also helps to get the company
objectives. By improving my technical and problem solving skills I can easily get higher
performance of the firm and also get the desired goal.
TASK 2
2.1 various styles of communication
There are different types of communication styles which is used by the company
members. Different communication styles are used at various levels in a firm. There are basically
four types of communication styles such as assertive, aggressive, passive and passive aggressive.
These all are the communication styles which has different characteristics to convey their
message to another.
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Manager: manager of Antics technologies uses the passive and aggressive
communication sty;e to communicate with the employees. They implement the payroll system
software for the employee. This software needed different types of resources, advanced
technologies etc. this will develop in the Java and MySQL server is used to store and access the
accurate data of the company. This information is provided by the manager to an employee in
passive aggressive communication style. In this style the manager uses the direct communication
with the employee and they will also give appropriate deadline for completion of software. In
this software they use unit and integration testing to test the software wheatear it is flexible or it
gives appropriate results or not (Andrews and Russell, 2012).
Client: client uses the passive communication style for the appropriate communication.
They give their requirements of the software by using this communication style. When the
company manager talks to the client they use passive communication style. In this style, the
manager only communicate polite and use only efficient language. They do not talk too much
only the essential question are asked by the client.
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Illustration 1: Communication styles
Source: Different Communication Styles

2.2 Effective time management strategies
Manager has a responsibility to provide appropriate and effective training to the
employee so that they can easily manage their time based on the task. They need to set deadline
and prioritized the task and give deadline to an employee. Team member has a responsibility to
complete the task by managing the time. There are different types of approaches of time
management such as prioritized the work. Based on the work priority they should provide to the
employee so that it can increase the work efficiency in the company. By managing the time they
can easily complete their task and create effective software in a firm.
For the successful completion of task the manager needs to provide appropriate resources
and service to the employee so that they can easily work together to complete a task. Further,
manager should divides the work in a team they can create different groups for the software
development such as testing team, design group and programming team. By dividing the teams
they can easily work together and it will give more efficiency to get desire target of a firm in the
world (Benson, Morgan and Filippaios, 2014).
TASK 3
3.1 Analysis the team dynamics and the roles people play within the team and how they are
working together to get desire objective
There are different types of team player in the group and they have different roles and
responsibility to get higher performance and desired target of the company. The manager has a
responsibility to provide appropriate and open environment to the employees so that they can
easily share their own opinions and suggestions to the management to solve specific problem in a
firm. In software developer team there are various key players that have different types of roles
and characteristics to get entity goal and desired target. For the successful development of the
software project the manager should give appropriate tools and techniques which helps to
implement effective software project. It helps to increase the overall performance and
productivity in the world. Some of the key player of software project team in Antics technologies
as follows:
coordinator role
This role is more essential in the team because this person is only provide the instruction
and guidelines to the employees top work together. They must have good listening skills which
helps to increase the work efficiency in the group (Blades, Fauth and Gibb, 2012). Coordinator
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takes different ideas from the employees and then they will take appropriate decisions fore the
particular problem. It gives more motivation to the employee and they will give more
contribution to work together.
Technologies and resource investigator role
In software developer team, this role is most important for the team they provide
appropriate tools and advanced methods for the development. In Antics technologies, they
implement the software in Java so they need advanced technologies of the Java to increase the
flexibility and efficiency of the software in the world. It helps to get higher performance and
desire objective of a firm in the world (de Guzman and Choi, 2013).
3.2 Alternatives ways to complete the task and get team goal during the development of the
software project
There are different types of tools and techniques which helps to get desired objective of
the group and an organization in the world. Manager must provides the appropriate training and
development to a leader so that they can easily give proper guidelines to an employees so they
can easily innovate their software to increase the firm performance in a world. Each pof the team
member has a responsibility to do their work in a proper way to get desired objective of the firm
in a world. For the effective team management they must follow theses tools and techniques as
follows:
Quality planning and testing
For the effective software development they need to use advanced technologies for the
quality checking of a software. Manager needs to check the software flexibility and efficiency of
the software. Team manager needs to provide appropriate training and development to the
employees so that they can easily test software by using the software -QFD. For the successful
software they need to test a software quality and flexibility (Durrani and Tariq, 2012).
Data base modelling tools
There are different types of database modelling tools which helps to access data
efficiently. By using various advanced modelling tools they can easily access the accurate data at
any time. MySQL and oracle data base is the best tool to store and access the appropriate data. In
the software development they need to apply theses data based to increase the software
accessibility efficiency.
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TASK 4
4.1 Review of tools and method which occur during the implementation of a software
Employees are facing different types of problem during the software development in the
company such as time management and managing resources. Manager has a responsibility
provide appropriate instruction to an employee so that they can easily manage their work and
produce effective payroll system software in the company. During the implementation of
software the employees are facing the problem of time management. They are not able to
manage their time for the work. They also not have appropriate resources to implement the
software such as computers, tools and technologies.
Time management
Team members are not able to manage their time for the work. Leader of the team need to
provide appropriate training to an employee to manage the task. Team leader need to prepare
time scale for the particular task. This will help to mange the time for the work. For the effective
time management they nee to prepare time scale and set appropriate deadline for the particular
task. They also should follow different types of time management strategies and approaches
which helps to increase the work efficiency in an entity (Jones, Torezani and Luca, 2012).
Resource and budget management
In Antics technologies they implement the payroll system software to maintain an
employee records of salary, wages, tax etc. During the implementation of the software
employees faces the problem of resources such as computers. They have not proper computer
technologies and tools to producer effective software. Further, budget is also not well managed
in the company to innovate or implement a software they need advanced resources and
technologies. Manager has a responsibility to provide appropriate resources to the employee so
that they can easily produce good quality software. It helps to increase overall firm performance
and productivity in the world (Mishra, 2014).
4.2 appropriate strategies for resolving a specific barrier
There are different types of approaches and strategies to solve the problems that occurs
during the software development of the project in a firm. To implement the effective and
efficient software the manager needs to provide efficient resources to an employees so that they
can easily produce innovative and new software in the company. They should also provide open
environment to the employee so that they can easily give innovative ideas a suggestion to create
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efficient software in a firm. Leader neds to involve each member of the team for the specific
solution. It gives more motivation to the employees and they will give more contribution to get
higher performance and productivity in the world (Omar And et.al., 2012).
Strategies for time management
During the software development the employees faces various problems such as time
management. Leader has a responsibility to prepare appropriate time scale and schedule the
particular task. They also need to set deadline for the task so that employees complete their task
at the time. There are different types of strategies of time management such as limit multi task
and review employee day. In this limit multi task approach leader need set time for the specific
block of task. Review of employee day gives more efficiency to manage the task time.
Strategies for budgeting management
There are different types of approaches of budgeting that help to manage a budget of the
project such as strategic plan and target profit margin. Both have various criteria to set the
budget and get higher performance in the company. In strategic plan approach, the manager
needs to create perfect budget for the implementation of a software. In manager needs to provide
essential resources and set their budget before the implementation (Panagiotakopoulos, 2012).
4.3 Evaluation of potential impact on the business of implementing the strategy
There are various benefits to follows time management and budgeting management
strategies which helps to increase the work efficiency in the company. Manger provides the
appropriate guidelines to an employee to manage their work in deadline. They also need to give
effective and advanced resource to implement the software in an entity. By using theses
strategies firm can easily get higher performance and also get desired objective in the world.
Manger needs to provide open environment to an employee so they can easily work together to
get appropriate target.
For effective software development the manager needs to provide advanced resources
and technologies. They must give training and development to an employee so that they can
easily implement effective software. By providing advanced and essential services related to the
development then it will give higher performance and productivity in the world. Budging
management is more essential during the implementation of software because if the firm has well
managed budget then only they can give resources to an employee for the software development.
There are different types of strategies of time management which helps to manage the work in
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the company such as review the employee day, limit multi task. These strategies help to mange
the work of any task. Manager is responsible to provide appropriate resources whenever the
employees needed. They also need to provide training and development to the employee so that
they can easily implement effective software (Rao, 2014).
CONCLUSION
Skills and knowledge is more essential for the employability and professional
development. Antics technology is the best software company in UK and it provides good and
advanced software to the customers. Software developer must have different skills such as
technical, communication and problem solving skills. By improving these skills the person can
easily enhance their work efficiency and also help to professional development. By applying
different types of time management and budgeting management strategies employees can easily
complete their task for the software development. It helps to give higher performance and
productivity to a firm in the world.
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