Interesting to think about when you think back to a skill you mastered or are currently mastering.

Michael Eraut summarized the five stages of increasing skill as follows:^[2]

1. Novice

• “rigid adherence to taught rules or plans”
• no exercise of “discretionary judgment”

2. Advanced beginner

• limited “situational perception”
• all aspects of work treated separately with equal importance

3. Competent

• “coping with crowdedness” (multiple activities, accumulation of information)
• some perception of actions in relation to goals
• deliberate planning
• formulates routines

4. Proficient

• holistic view of situation
• prioritizes importance of aspects
• “perceives deviations from the normal pattern”
• employs maxims for guidance, with meanings that adapt to the situation at hand

5. Expert

• transcends reliance on rules, guidelines, and maxims
• “intuitive grasp of situations based on deep, tacit understanding”
• has “vision of what is possible”
• uses “analytical approaches” in new situations or in case of problems

@raybennett87 thanks! the whole game development took me around 7 months, 4 months programming.

From the sole developer of Tiny Wings. It’s a great game that is extremely polished in it’s first release. I wonder what would have happened if he left some rough edges and published the game sooner? Would he have had the same success?

And is this a case against MVP in the app store?

(Source: twitter.com)