Maudric
← Japanese at Work
W3

Software development and AI

The Japanese of software teams: specs and estimates, stand-ups and code review, bugs, releases and outages, and using generative AI at work.

For engineers working in Japanese teams or with Japanese clients. You'll follow a spec review, give an estimate, report progress at a stand-up, comment on a pull request politely, write up a bug and explain an outage. The last lesson covers generative AI at work, including the rules on confidential data. Best after Everyday Japanese 5 or 6.

Free to use. If these lessons help you, you can support new lessons on Patreon.

This course opens on 7 June 2027.

  1. W301Clients and requirementsFrom 7 June 2027System integrators, clients and contractors, then requirements, specs and design documents.
  2. W302Estimates and schedulesFrom 7 June 2027Effort in person-months, deadlines, slipping and catching up, and asking for more time or people.
  3. W303The team and the processFrom 7 June 2027Waterfall and agile, stand-ups and retros, tickets, and reporting, keeping people informed and asking early.
  4. W304Code review and GitFrom 7 June 2027Pull requests, review comments, conflicts and merges, and giving feedback politely.
  5. W305Testing and bugsFrom 7 June 2027Test stages, bug reports, reproducing problems and finding the cause.
  6. W306Releases, incidents and the cloudFrom 7 June 2027Going live, rolling back, outages, monitoring, night work and the cloud.
  7. W307Generative AI at workFrom 7 June 2027Prompts and outputs, checking for mistakes, rules on confidential data, and what AI will change.
  8. W308ReviewFrom 7 June 2027The whole course again: 30 sentences for the walking drill.