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.
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...
People tend to like the shortcuts. There’s nothing really surprising about that - actually modern corporate standards favor people who are goal-oriented and "know what they want". I’m not gonna condemn this path (as I find myself a pretty ambitious and impatient individual as well …), but...
> * And what method are you using on your project? * Oh, it’s Scrum. But we’ve improved it a bit … Sounds familiar? Yea, I believe everyone has met “scrumming project” at least once. Shamefully in 90% of cases, people just use “Scrum” as a label. They’ve just started...
If you’re reading this I suppose we can assume you already know what CQRS (by Greg Young) is. Quite likely you may have already been hooked by the idea. Presumably you’ve watched Greg’s videos (http://youtu.be/KXqrBySgX-s), you’ve read Udi Dahan’s clarification ( http://www....
Recently I had an opportunity of observing few IT projects in progress. Sometimes such an external perspective is a true blessing as it helps to notice things that were somehow omitted by core project team. I’m not going to elaborate on all the details, I’ll just focus on...