In Making Sense of the Deliberate Practice Debate, I argued that deliberate practice is the best way to get better at a skill, even if you believe that innate ability (talent) plays a significant role in how people become experts. In the next few posts, I’m going to start investigating how software developers can apply deliberate practice to a specific skill: Writing correct, efficient, and maintainable code for a software component given well-defined requirements. But first, let’s take a closer look at that skill.
