A few weeks ago, we (myself & my two friends - Tomek & Wojtek, as a part of a community called CTO Morning Coffee) hosted an online X Spaces session on Domain-Driven Design (DDD). To be clear, this wasn't supposed to be an intro session; quite the contrary....
Many people who've never seen high-performing teams in action (I mean genuinely high-performing, not just the ones who self-claim they are ...), assume that all that you need to form such a team is: * assign them a mission (they could identify with) * grant them a sufficient level of autonomy...
I've used many personality assessment methods & tools in the past. Gallup SF, Transactional Analysis, OCEAN - that sort of stuff (& more). I'm not a professional behavioral psychologist (of course), but I thought nothing would surprise me regarding the qualification of personality types. Yet, I&...
It's one of the lessons I've learned the hard way: there's no other resource valuable more than your own time. Why so? * it's hard-capped * it's not transferable (my time isn't directly exchangeable with your time, at least in...
I bet that nearly everyone in the software-crafting industry has heard about YAGNI [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_aren%27t_gonna_need_it] ("You Ain't Gonna Need It") principle. But what about TAGRI? TAGRI (which is nearly as old as YAGNI) stands for "They...
I have a weird personality - an amalgamate of strongly contrasting characteristics that don’t come together frequently (e.g., intense + analytical, competitive + stoic). Some of them I’ve strongly developed over the years, but there’s a bunch I’d call innate - “analytical” is probably the most important...
Disclaimer: no, this post has nothing in common with the Deutsche Demokratische Republik, but I’ve found the coincidence of acronyms hilarious, so I couldn’t resist the reference in the header image. So don’t worry, no commies were harmed in the making of this article. Amazon ain’t...
Let me start with a short scene that happened some time ago, at the peak of the IT job market’s craziness. We were interviewing a senior candidate with 10+ years of professional experience in serious, enterprise brands: mostly large organizations that do business the “traditional way” and do not...
If I had to bet on which graphical meme appears most frequently in my LinkedIn timeline, I'd say it's the one about "servant leadership". I'm sure you recall it easily (even if it comes in many "flavors" these days): * In...
That's the second (& final) post in the mini-series. The prior one can be found here. Where are we right now? I've explained why the "depth" of Gen AI usage matters. And I've already covered two of the total three obstacles on...
There are very few topics online these days that receive as much attention as expected productivity gains due to LLM usage. Some CEOs claim publicly that their companies "write NN% code with Gen AI" or "have reduced headcount by MM% due to AI-powered automations". Of course,...
