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.
Programmers throughout the world keep wondering why some companies are such great places to work & other ones are like local embassies of hell on earth. Obviously the answer isn't easy & trivialising it with unproven, populistic assumptions is just oversimplifying whole stuff. Let me deal with the...
This isn't really a story about a sticker (surprise, surprise), but it really exists & its on the top cover - here's the proof: Whoooa, it's Erlang [http://www.erlang.org/]. Not GitHub/Akka/F#/AngularJS/ OculusRift/Spark/Clojure/Heroku/Swift/Elixir or any...
Quite the contrary to the common belief, team's productivity is NOT just a simple sum of team member's potentials. Many want to believe that because it so easily translates into mandays & fits the capacity VS estimates matching game. Though it never really works this way....
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...
