Reflective Journal
Have a look at this post by chrishmorris about improving your professional skills by systematically learning from your own experience (and the experience of others).
“To improve, they must not only learn more theory, they must also think about what they have done.”
The idea of keeping a reflective journal is a great idea. Mastering context sensitive domains such as design, programming, project management and testing is hard to do without some sort of reflection process.
A “reflective practice journal” is great add-on to a mentoring or self-improvement process.
June 20th, 2006 at 11:38 am
I read the chrishmorris post as well as the reference behind it (Donald Shon’s "Educating the Reflective Practitioner").
A diary is great, but sharing reflective learning in regular professional conversations might be even better.