Professional Identity & Career Orientation
Being a full-stack developer is not one fixed job — it covers a spectrum of roles you can grow into, from frontend-leaning to backend-leaning, DevSecOps, or tech lead. This subject is about who you are becoming as an ICT professional: recognising the roles and career paths available to you, mapping your own strengths and interests onto them, and using that self-knowledge to make deliberate choices in your studies and studio project rather than drifting through them.
Starting Points
- Fournier, C. (2017). The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change. O'Reilly.
- LinkedIn Learning. Tech Career Skills: Moving from Developer to Engineering Manager.
- HBO-i. Domeinbeschrijving: Professional Skills.
Key Points
- You describe at least three professional roles that a full-stack developer can grow into and explain the differences between them.
- You reflect on your own strengths, interests, and working style and connect these explicitly to a role or specialisation you want to develop.
- You make a deliberate choice about your focus area in the studio project and articulate why this fits your development goals.
- You identify what skills and experiences you still need to develop to reach your stated career goal and plan first steps.