Saturday, 23 March 2013

Mini project: The Interview

The Interview is a small project I think of to enhance my English communication skill, and to improve quality of my relationships with my beloved friends and family. It's sort of social game where I'll be an interviewer and my guest will be in role of an interviewee. Normally, the interviewee will pick the topic from an available list I recommend, but he/she can suggest their favourite one. Then, we will discuss directly or indirectly to finalize the ideal show time, as well as interview questions. When the time comes, the interview will happen in voice chat via Skype , and I will record all the conversation, which then will be uploaded to SoundCloud.com for later retrospectives. A survey email will also be sent to guests for collecting feedbacks right after the talk.

If you interests this activity, please fill this form which will automatically send back to me after submit.

Activity summary:
- Theme: Interview
- Tools: Google form for scheduling, Skype for voice chat, SoundCloud for conversation recording storage
- Duration/session:  20 minutes
- Ending time: Dec 2013 (planned)

What have I learn at CSC Vietnam?

I joined my current company 6 months ago, and participated into a specific project 2 months later. The working time is not much but really useful and meaningful to me, since I was lucky to join one of the most challenging projects at company which applied lots of best practices and technologies to meet business demand. In terms of development process, we follow agile methodology which uses many best practices such as Scrum, Kanban, Test Driven Development (TDD), ATDD (Acceptance Test Driven Development), Pair Programming, AutoBuild, AutoDeploy, Code Review, etc.. On the other hand, technology-wise, we're using nearly latest platforms and tools relating to Microsoft including VS2012, TFS2012, Resharper, so on. Moreover, I also applied programing theories like SOLID and SQL query techniques with RihnoMock, StructureMap, Recursive CTE in SQL. To sump up, 4 months working at this project really opens my eyes and reinnovate my mind.