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.
DevDay 2015 is history now. If you don't know what DevDay [http://www.devday.pl/] is, check my summaries for prev years' editions (2014 [https://no-kill-switch.ghost.io/why-abbdevday-2014-didnt-rock-my-world/] or 2013 [https://no-kill-switch.ghost.io/abb-devday-2013-the-aftermath/]) or google for someone else's review of this year&...
Core values. Mission statement. Vision statement. Organizational DNA. I was always very skeptical in terms of the actual meaning of those. Is it really possible to cover the essence of company's culture in such a short form without being over-generic or inaccurate? And do people really need such...
I've been thinking about the idea of Continuous Improvement [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continual_improvement_process] a lot recently. By empirical observation, I wanted to learn: * what makes it happen (triggers it) * what impedes / suppresses / prevents it from happening * what's the recipe (proper set of...
Being a lucky git, I've grown up (techwise, in terms of professional career) in very good teams, surrounded by decent team mates & coached by awesome leaders. I didn't discover that today, I've already written at least one post about that some day ago....
Two days ago, this has made my day: > Went into a meeting with a fortune 500 C-level team and OH: “the goal here is to minimize details and maximize understanding.” Mmmkay. — Mitchell Hashimoto (@mitchellh) August 28, 2015 [https://twitter.com/mitchellh/status/637085598147174400] Poor Mitchell. "ESB. It'...
JS, JS, JS everywhere JavaScript is the language of the web - we all have heard that many times. It has a variety of potential usages in various (sometimes not obvious) scenarios - even server-side ones - but there was a category of applications I could not imagine JS in...
