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.
Without any lengthy introductions - COVID-19 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronavirus_disease_2019] has sent plenty of people to work remotely. Companies that would never (or at least unlikely) consider such a scenario, have jumped (somehow reluctantly) straight onto remoteness bandwagon to secure their daily operations in the times...
I tend to "spend" a lot of keystrokes on various aspects of technical debt and/or poor engineering practices. The list seems endless: component coupling, shallow modeling, leaky boundaries, inconsistent conventions, not-sufficiently-expressive design, incapacitated development agility, unnecessary layers of indirection, overzealous pattern usage, lava flow effect - naming...
I've always been praising the value of maintaining a stable rhythm (cadence) of the software delivery - frequent, regular, habitual, nearly continuous. That's why as a Kanban aficionado I've never minded the concept of a sprint - and in particular the specific idea of...
... #1 The author of "Weapons of Math Descruction" [https://www.amazon.com/Weapons-Math-Destruction-Increases-Inequality/dp/0553418831] (Cathy O'Neil) raises the alarm - we not only generate, but also process more & more data. Usually in a non-transparent, unclear way - the consequences of mistakes or imperfections (e....
"Leadership" is the thing these days - ones able to get others moving, ones who act as a multiplier to others' work (due to leverage effect they make), ones that do inspire their peers & actively shape the culture around them - they are worth their weight...
> Quo vadis? (lat. Whither goest thou?) Last week I attended this year's edition of one of my favourite software craftsmanship-related conferences: DDD Europe [https://dddeurope.com/2020/]. It was a good time, I've met interesting people, attended a few workshops, enjoyed beautiful weather in always...
