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.
Straight to business - I've participated in a very interesting discussion about development architecture recently: which scenario works better & brings more benefit to the organization: 1. each team is responsible for all their deployment / maintenance mechanisms separately (let's call it Scenario A) 2. there'...
I've finally read Jobs'es biography. The book [http://www.amazon.com/Steve-Jobs-Walter-Isaacson-ebook/dp/B004W2UBYW/ref=sr_1_4?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1403383547&sr=1-4&keywords=walter+isaacson] itself (authored by Walter Isaacson) is almost as famous as the leading character...
Have you heard about the Poppendiecks? Mary & Tom? I did, but somehow I've skipped reading their books until now. It's not like they've written zillion of them (because they've written just 3 AFAIK), but it seems that when they release something,...
I've spotted a nice meme today. The pic itself is meaningless, but the text comment was a true killer: > We will continue having lots of meetings until we find out why no work is getting done. Nail'd it. Don't you think? It may...
In general, the larger the company is, the more it aims for covering the software-related risks by paying for external support services. And it makes sense, at least in theory: * the bigger the company, the more complex its business is * the more complex the business is, the more software is...
Quite recently I've had an interesting discussion about the differences between developing applications in various IT ecosystems (OS + platform + language + IDE + libs + ...) - why do some of them suck (always suck / usually suck / sometimes suck) and why some suck more than other. Obviously, these questions are not easy...