A few weeks ago, we (myself & my two friends - Tomek & Wojtek, as a part of a community called CTO Morning Coffee) hosted an online X Spaces session on Domain-Driven Design (DDD). To be clear, this wasn't supposed to be an intro session; quite the contrary....
Many people who've never seen high-performing teams in action (I mean genuinely high-performing, not just the ones who self-claim they are ...), assume that all that you need to form such a team is: * assign them a mission (they could identify with) * grant them a sufficient...
I've used many personality assessment methods & tools in the past. Gallup SF, Transactional Analysis, OCEAN - that sort of stuff (& more). I'm not a professional behavioral psychologist (of course), but I thought nothing would surprise me regarding the qualification of personality types. Yet, I'...
It's one of the lessons I've learned the hard way: there's no other resource valuable more than your own time. Why so? * it's hard-capped * it's not transferable (my time isn't directly exchangeable with your time, at least...
I bet that nearly everyone in the software-crafting industry has heard about YAGNI [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_aren%27t_gonna_need_it] ("You Ain't Gonna Need It") principle. But what about TAGRI? TAGRI (which is nearly as old as YAGNI) stands for "...
If anyone asked me about the future of .NET precisely a year ago, I’d surely answer that it’s as bright and shiny as possible. Constantly improving modern development language (C#), best IDE on the market (regardless of platform - Visual Studio). But a lot has happened within last 12...
According to popular belief (especially in some service-oriented companionships…) project manager’s main duty is to be a slap b*tch for project sponsor. Joint business lunches full of professional asslicking, constant "governance", assuring that everything is ok (even if it’s clearly not) and preparing tons...
If you grasped the direct reference to fighter-pilot movies or "Strike Commander" classic PC game, you’ve probably instinctively tried to check your radar. Good guess, but this time it’s not about "Top Gun" but "ThoughtWorks Technology Radar" that has been updated...
People tend to like the shortcuts. There’s nothing really surprising about that - actually modern corporate standards favor people who are goal-oriented and "know what they want". I’m not gonna condemn this path (as I find myself a pretty ambitious and impatient individual as well …), but...
> * And what method are you using on your project? * Oh, it’s Scrum. But we’ve improved it a bit … Sounds familiar? Yea, I believe everyone has met “scrumming project” at least once. Shamefully in 90% of cases, people just use “Scrum” as a label. They’ve just started...
If you’re reading this I suppose we can assume you already know what CQRS (by Greg Young) is. Quite likely you may have already been hooked by the idea. Presumably you’ve watched Greg’s videos (http://youtu.be/KXqrBySgX-s), you’ve read Udi Dahan’s clarification ( http:...
