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.
I’ve seen another praise of software delivery centers recently - how efficient and cheap they are, how easily you can deal with your problems by outsourcing your software development to India or another Asian cheap labor paradise. Sure you can, if you’re in a need of crapware. Don’...
All the “theorycrafting” below is based on my own experience and things I’ve read that belong to different methodologies or practices. You can recognize some of that as elements of Scrum / Kanban or something else, but there’s no guarantee I use official / mainstream terminology. Why? Because I like...
During my professional career I had met many managers - some of them were good, some were pretty bad, some are still a question mark for me, but if you asked me about something the most common ("denominator"), there’d be only one response: 95% of them had...
If anyone asked me about the future of .NET precisely a year ago, I’d surely answer that it’s as bright and shiny as possible. Constantly improving modern development language (C#), best IDE on the market (regardless of platform - Visual Studio). But a lot has happened within last...
According to popular belief (especially in some service-oriented companionships…) project manager’s main duty is to be a slap b*tch for project sponsor. Joint business lunches full of professional asslicking, constant "governance", assuring that everything is ok (even if it’s clearly not) and preparing tons of...
If you grasped the direct reference to fighter-pilot movies or "Strike Commander" classic PC game, you’ve probably instinctively tried to check your radar. Good guess, but this time it’s not about "Top Gun" but "ThoughtWorks Technology Radar" that has been updated few...