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.
Believe it or not, we’re trying to introduce BDD (Behavior Driven Development - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavior-driven_development) using automated tests on the large web front-end implementation project (based on .NET and heavy JavaScript). And we’re doing it, because actually these are the client people...
In classic "build or buy" scenario for infrastructure-related (application architecture or development architecture) solution, in 90% of cases my answer will be "buy". Some hate me because of that, but I won’t change my mind. Even if you have a reasonable developer manpower, it’...
If I one day decide to write a tech book (what kind of stupid idea is that? :>), it’ll definitely be a package manager related one … Obviously, I’m kidding here, but keeping in mind all the "perilous adventures" and "breathe-taking twists" I’ve...
That’s just sad - I keep having the same observation once in a while: > Leaders that have already built some kind of position keep siloing the knowledge, power and initiative while blocking any decision-taking process in the same time. What does it mean? Let me quote some typical...
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’t...
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...