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.
Brutal observation (not just mine, based on conversations with numerous people from various work environments across diverse geographies and cultures): many engineering organizations try to tackle their problems by stacking up more & more complex countermeasures, while the real solutions are, in fact, very simple. But unfortunately, even their most...
Attention! It's one of those posts that are written merely for self-reflection, not to share anything breakthrough-ish (or pretending to be such). It's gonna be personal, I mean it. You have been warned. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It was an odd year. Pretty much nothing went as planned. No-one...
Let me start we few disclaimers first: 1. I have no insider info (from CD Project Red [https://en.cdprojektred.com/]). All I can do is to watch carefully from the outside (as a customer) and map my observations onto my experience in the software development industry. 2. I realize...
Disclaimer #1: for a change, this article does not aim to present an opinionated thesis - treat it more like an open question and an invitation for a discussion Disclaimer #2: I do realize that I should be thankful for having such "dilemmas" - it's only...
Working in many different environments provided me a good perspective on what scaling models are applied by different companies. Today I'd like to spend a bunch of keystrokes on one of the worst scaling models I've ever encountered. I call it: > Scaling by bubbling the...
Last week I introduced [https://no-kill-switch.ghost.io/my-time-travel-online-banking-experiment-part-i/] you to Inteligo (online banking experience straight from 2001) and presented its brief story (... of permanent stagnation). Now we can smoothly transition into comparing it with "modern banking customer experience" (the one you know from any bank you'...
