What Scared Me More Than English Was the ‘Global Standard Design Philosophy’ — The Confidence I Lost During My London Training in My 8th Year at Work
I Thought I Knew How to Build Systems Whoa! The airplane wing looked strangely fragile. I was boarding an ANA flight from Haneda Airport to London. My very first “overseas system training program” was about to begin. It was my eighth year in the company. I had gained a fair amount of experience in system development and had already worked on systems actively used in society. And I wasn’t just a developer anymore. I had also been involved from the management side, overseeing projects from a broader perspective. “This is how systems are built.” I had gradually started to gain that confidence. Of course, I was not a Java professional. I wasn’t the kind of engineer who specialized in mastering code itself. Rather, my strength was understanding overall architecture and connecting business operations with IT. Little by little, I had started to understand the field where I could truly compete. That was why I viewed this London business trip almost as a “confirmation exercise.” ...