Shortly after her arrival as CTO at Stats Perform in mid-2018, the data and AI-powered sports statistics company decided that to hit new levels of achievement — without hitting new levels of burnout — they would need to adopt a new methodology. They landed on extreme programming (XP).
Some developers discover their passion for technology at an early age, but spending your teenage years building websites and custom software is not a prerequisite for a career in coding. In fact, many successful developers have been well underway on different career paths before getting involved in the tech scene.