2. Do that by reading, here and other useful places, not necessarily about your own area.
3. Start to understand your industry, its details and quirks, watch your directory, ask them questions, learn the business in detail. Even if you move to delivering IT in another industry, the knowledge will hold you in good stead.
4. Understand how to model business workflows without worrying about technology. Learn how to communicate that with your users and customers (two different groups sometimes).
5. Nouns are more important than Verbs. Concentrate on the "things" and how they react to events and generate their own.
6. Technology comes and goes (MVC, DAO, microservices, monoliths, k8s, etc etc), processes as well (6 sigma, CASE, Agile, UML, etc etc). Learn their important details and differences and don't think any of them are silver bullets.
2. Do that by reading, here and other useful places, not necessarily about your own area.
3. Start to understand your industry, its details and quirks, watch your directory, ask them questions, learn the business in detail. Even if you move to delivering IT in another industry, the knowledge will hold you in good stead.
4. Understand how to model business workflows without worrying about technology. Learn how to communicate that with your users and customers (two different groups sometimes).
5. Nouns are more important than Verbs. Concentrate on the "things" and how they react to events and generate their own.
6. Technology comes and goes (MVC, DAO, microservices, monoliths, k8s, etc etc), processes as well (6 sigma, CASE, Agile, UML, etc etc). Learn their important details and differences and don't think any of them are silver bullets.
1 & 2 are the most important.