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.
Self-governing, self-stating, self-managing, self-organizing TEAM. Combined human potential. Direct interactions & co-operation. Simplifying communication routes. Power to the (team) people. Yay. Yes, that's right, agile approach promotes all the team-related statements listed above. Scrum team, in favorable circumstances, can perform magnificently without any kind of manager support (not...
"Organic" growth Codebases grow, they never shrink. New functionality chunks appear, old ones very rarely get decomissioned. More code means more complexity, more dependencies, more space for regression & even more troublesome testing - that's sad reality & you can fool yourself with dreaming about full...
So far I had a quite straightforward approach to regular vacation: 2 weeks in summer, 2-3 days in winter holiday season (to fill the eventual gap between X-mas & NY) & ... that was all. There was always so much to do & I have never felt a particular need to...
The subject of 10x engineers [http://www.quora.com/10X-Engineers] & their existence is back. Again. It's just the nicknames that change: * rockstar programmers * cowboy programmers * 10x engineers Personally I thought that's not much to be said beyond what Scott Hanselman did here [http://www.hanselman....
No-no-no, don't panic. This is not going to be a very personal blog post. It will still be a summary though - a short list of what worked & what didn't work in 2014 - but I promise, I'll focus on professional stuff, avoiding...
Some time ago, an interesting article has been published in Harvard Business Review - "Data Scientist: The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century" [https://hbr.org/2012/10/data-scientist-the-sexiest-job-of-the-21st-century/]. Some have nodded politely, some had a bit of laughter - very few treated it seriously. Ironically, it seems...