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 level of autonomy...
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 in...
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 "They...
Visual Studio 2012 and Windows 8 are already here so it was more than obvious that another tier of developer certifications will appear soon. But if you’ve assumed (like I did) that MSFT is just going to add exams as a parallel path of equivalents to the old MCTS...
The blog post I’ve found ( http://businesscraftsmanship.tumblr.com/post/31061404534/delete-scrummasters) has inspired me to think a bit about self-organizing teams and Scrum Master’s true role. If indeed a Development Team is able to self-organize, aren’t they able to self-enforce the rules of Scrum? This shouldn’...
We’re deeply in some tricky proof of concept of advertisement app architecture for web, so I don’t have any fancy post for you today, but there’s something I’d like to share: Some time ago I’ve mentioned JavaScript frameworks for MVC applications on the client-side. The...
Falling in love with Rx (again) Last week I was involved in preparing some Proof-of-Concept for Comet ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_%28programming%29) implementation using asynchronous controllers in ASP.NET MVC 3. Hopefully this technical opening didn’t scare you off ;) In brief, simple words - we needed...
The Internet is still buzzing (like that: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151133269844183&set=p.10151133269844183&type=1&relevant_count=1 [http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151133269844183&set=p.10151133269844183&type=1&relevant_count=1] ) with the echoes of recent...
I’ve shamelessly stolen the title of this post to grab your attention, people :) The title is taken from from the very interesting blog post a friend shared with me recently: http://captaincapitalism.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/networking-cannot-replace-skills.html Even if I don’t agree with some of the...
