What is "detail"?

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As long as the professionals, talk about the "details" of the word estimate is easy to associate with the "details determine success or failure" sentence. Because this sentence no one knows, no one does not know, so that the "details" is easy to mistakenly think is a slogan. As for how I feel at work, it is true that most people take "attention to detail" as a slogan. Because of this, I would like to take this article to discuss with you what I understand the "details".

first of all, "detail" stands for attitude-to do the work in place. The "do Bit" and "finish" are completely different levels of work, which contain the latter but have a deeper connotation than the latter. One is to work hard to make mistakes and to address and prevent them at the root of the mistakes. For software engineers, I advocate that preventing him from making mistakes is a software design and coding principle, that is, when designing and coding, you need to think well about how to make your code not misunderstood and misused. To do this can not be separated from the code in the name of the "literal", but also in the design and coding process "out" of their own thinking category to imagine what others will think. In my opinion, simple, common sense design is not easy to make mistakes. Software development work the only way to make the mistake is to do nothing, obviously it's unrealistic! When an error occurs, be sure to find the root cause of the error, by starting from the root of the error to eradicate, and, if necessary, from the design and process level to reflect and adjust, and not "headache head, foot pain to heal feet." Second, the work is easy to transfer. A very simple test of whether a job is a bit is whether the content of the work is easily handed over and the difficulty of handover means that it must not be in place, which may be poorly structured (like noodles), obscure code (using the stream of Consciousness nomenclature), or lack of documentation. What is worth correcting is that the easy handover of work does not allow you to "lose your job", instead it will give you more opportunities for development, because you will not be forced to bind to a business, but also to bring greater flexibility to the organization's work. From the perspective of the team, it is also necessary for the individual to make the work easy to transfer, it is possible to achieve the precipitation of team knowledge, otherwise, even if the knowledge management of its practical methods is likely to no avail.

I'm not sure if anyone's naïve enough to think they're the one. "Irreplaceable person". But the reality is that there is very little work in the workplace that is "not yours", and that the ability to differentiate is at the beginning of the opportunity, and I suggest that you get more development opportunities by getting things done in order to enhance your ability in opportunities.

second, "detail" stands for efficiency. intuition tells us that attention to detail takes more time than less, but I think that intuition is wrong. The time it takes to complete a task can be broken down into two parts: thinking and action. As far as my work is concerned, attention to detail requires more time to think in the short term, and sometimes the action time is longer due to attention to detail. However, in most cases, the thinking phase takes more time to act faster, thus shortening the time and quality of completion of the entire task. In the current situation where people are doing much more than they think about it, I suggest doing more thinking in order to exercise your thinking skills by focusing on the details. As for my work experience, I found that many things are due to the fact that I did not pay attention to the details at first, which made the inefficiency more and more repeated.

Through the attention to detail will work in place after the heart is very comfortable, do not worry about where there are small tail to keep, so that people in the work easier to calm down and focus, and these are to do efficient work elements.

from the team level, If you pay attention to details, it means lower management costs. Managers do not have to spend much time managing people and things that may not be in place to help achieve higher team performance. In my experience, a competent manager in the real world spends a lot of time dealing with things that are not in place.

again, "detail" represents the ability. I suspect that there are a lot of people who think that "details can be found as long as I pay attention", and that I think that I can focus on the details with a momentary switch of consciousness. The reason is that attention to detail is a kind of ability, which is not innate, but a long-term training income later. The existence of this misunderstanding is believed to greatly contribute to some people's attitude to attention to detail, they think it is not too late to pay attention to later, but I do not know that only from now on to focus on the future will have this ability. The ability to pay attention to detail is ultimately manifested as a habit of acting instinctively in the work of the individual and sensitive to details, which, at the other level, embodies the efficiency of the attention to detail in the end.

Finally, "detail" stands for quality. one, regardless of any product, "boutique" and "cottage" difference is reflected in the details and materials, for software products because there is no "material" I am afraid more in detail. Obviously, the attention to detail of the SOFTWARE product has better quality. Second, a person who is concerned about the details of the quality of their work is often higher, it is easy to reap the recognition and trust of others to establish their own brand, this is another important quality.

How do you improve your ability to focus on details? I have the following suggestions.

in the beginning, faith precedes. the key to acquiring a competency is that you "believe" that it is scarce and that it is valuable to itself, to the team, and to society. Based on this belief, you will be receptive to any detail that is pointed out by others at work, rather than being "fed up." I have been exposed to roughly two categories of people in my work: one is that if you tell him a specific question in a single sentence, he will actively acknowledge and immediately improve, interact efficiently and joyfully, and he thinks that there is no need for you to spend a lot of time convincing, even if the whole team (except him) has decided that he can remain opinionated. The interaction process is inefficient and uninteresting. What kind of person do you want to be? Choose yourself!

I personally think that It is acceptable not to "do not be small" if attention to certain details does not bring us extra work. You know, our behavior habits are shaped in these bits, and rejecting these details is actually preventing us from growing faster.

in the process, endure "loneliness". In reality, the neglect of details can be said to be outrageous. If you look through a document, you will find that no matter the format, or the text is not in the details, some even the introduction of the document template is too lazy to delete, even the wording of the structure and logic confusion; you open a ppt or mail, you will see the font clutter, punctuation arbitrary use, there is no consistency between the style; It's good to be in the situation if you feel sad and you're a detail-focused person. But at the same time, you have to endure the loneliness of the big environment that is not meticulous in detail. As long as you believe that attention to detail is an important ability, you should be comfortable with the details of your work.

Finally, Shenxianshizu. as a member of the team, if you are a detail-oriented person, you must hope that the entire team has a culture of attention to detail, so that their growth will be faster. Attention to detail since it is a capability, it means that for those who do not have this ability, he does not know what is the details of the work, before the team to form a focus on the details of the atmosphere, please be responsible for the quality of their attention to detail, and at any time to point out the work of others neglected details. Details, whether it's a code or a document, will look different and even add some sense of authority, which is where the details are.

Anything, as long as the attention to detail has a technical content. There's so much anxiety in the workplace that maybe it's because we have too little control over the details. In addition to the details, there may not be much to be done about it.

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What is "detail"?