rmi_RAÚL MORENO IZQUIERDO
COMPUTER ENGINEER
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Adaptation: change is part of the job

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In computing, change is not an occasional interruption. It appears in unusual hardware behaviour, software defects, mistakes in our own code and reorganisations of the teams around us.

A professional needs flexibility, but flexibility does not mean accepting every new idea without question. It means understanding what has changed, deciding what still matters and adjusting the approach accordingly. Sometimes adaptation begins by admitting that the plan was wrong.

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