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...
There's one thing about (professional) communication that I find hilarious. Over the last 15+ years (until approx. 2023), the importance of writing (as a skill) in software engineering craft has gradually declined. I've written about that already - https://no-kill-switch.ghost.io/generation-of-illiterate-developers/. It's...
There have been tons of books and articles written on how to be a decent engineering leader. Various authors have been dissecting the role into pieces and atoms, trying to pinpoint the true essence of success in this field. I'm dedicating this blog post to one of such...
"Luck" (in an effective & successful software product delivery) is one of those topics I've never dedicated a post to. At least not directly. You may be surprised why I want to change that - isn't "luck" something random, or at most...
You may not have heard about Price's law, so why don't we start with its definition? "In any group, the square root of the total members accounts for half the output. For example, in a team of 100, about 10 people contribute 50% of the...
It's not that I hate year reviews, but let's be honest - a stereotypical year summary is very "me"-centric, so why bore you folks with scribblings that are mainly relevant to myself only? That would be selfish and egotistical, don't you...
I received my DC-1 over a month ago (on Nov 7th) - it's enough time to summarize my initial impressions. Most likely, I'll add some updates in the following months, so feel free to bookmark the article if you're interested in what else I&...
