Geek, agilista, blogger, codefella, serial reader. In the daylight - I navigate & lead software engineering. #lean #design #aws #elixir #analytics. I speak here for myself only.
In last few days a new wave of rant moved through the Internet - few bloggers (it started with Dave Thomas - one of the creators of Agile Manifesto) have decided to announce Agile being dead and, as usually, such statements heat up the discussion pretty quickly. The funny thing...
Some people are quite messy by nature - in many cases it’s because they don’t give a … care. In some because they’re overconfident (they believe they are more organized than they actually are) and sometimes it’s a nothing more than an old, crude lack of time...
You all know how this business is alike: if you’re not learning, you’re getting out of the game quickly - knowledge that is more than 3 years old is pretty much worthless. That’s why you should use every possible opportunity to invest in your self-development: fortunately many...
This is a very tricky topic. And you can beat the statement from the first sentence of post’s title easily by bringing up the well-renown examples of successful remote teams that have managed to create something really memorable (like GitHub, StackExchange, Mozilla or Basho - you know, the Riak...
Unfortunately, some still think that they can treat software engineering as any other type of work. Maybe it’s convenient, but it just doesn’t work. Here’s are two quotes I’ve overheard during just last week … : "Scrum is awesome, it works really well if applied properly. And...
All of those cases below are not made up. I’ve met with those cases -> sometimes as ideas, sometimes they were even used in practice. But they all have one common feature - they should be avoided at all cost. To simplify things, I’ve used Git Flow...