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.
What's the most popular Agile method these days? 1. FDD? Nah, no-one ever has seen a living FDDer - this method has been made up so there are at least 3 Agile methods on the list ... 2. XP? Another fake - it's just a collection of...
Few weeks ago I've noted down an interesting notion that someone has mentioned during one of the discussions I've participated in: > hedging technology The overall idea is simple, you may recognize it from hedging funds or hedging bets. Hedging technology is expanding your area of...
The way people tend to twist the idea of self-organization & bottom-up team empowerment is both scary & fascinating in the same time. But the amusing part fades away quite quickly when you realize all the inefficiency & impotency that happen as a side effect. One of the most common...
One has to be remain realistic - sometimes even positively hyped, mature, proven ideas with strong foundations can't break into mainstream. That has happened (is happening) for Actor Model [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor_model] (AM) & I believe that quite likely it will stay like this....
Craft Conference [http://beta.craft-conf.com/] is A-MUST-ATTEND on my conference list for each consecutive year. I tend to prefer specialized events (dedicated to particular method / technology / platform), but Craft allures me with its "crafters for crafters" approach - speaker list is totally dominated by engineers & other...
This blog post has been inspired by the following article: Where the hell are all the great senioer software developers and hands-on engineering directors [https://medium.com/@obie/where-the-hell-are-all-the-great-senior-software-developers-and-hands-on-engineering-directors-b88b0d15fbdf] . "You talk like a developer" Let's start with a short story: New dev comes to me as...
