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...
We’re working on creating a new web channel for the on-line portal of a large financial services company in Poland. One of the top priorities is building the "wow effect" by making the new front-end - a true Web 2.0 application. Client has decided (and it...
SCRUM is one of the top items on my priority list these days. I still believe that traditional ("waterfall") approach is safer (when done properly), but as majority of my recent work can at least partially be qualified as R&D, SCRUM-like agile methods are my preferred...
And so little time to write about it… I’ll try to focus on what was most interesting. Microsoft announced some toys again …You’ve most likely already seen both tablets ("Surface") and Windows Phone 8. Plenty have been written on the web about them, so I’m...
I still remember my first project (8.5 yrs ago in retail bank in Wrocław) - blind fate decided that I had to join MIS (Management Information System) Team instead of Web Channel Team. For a moment I was very unhappy - I had already some nice experience in J2EE...
I’ve passed my PMP exam on Monday. I was a bit nervous (I’ve passed so many exams in my life but I can’t help it - I’m always a bundle of nerves before exam, regardless of how prepared I feel) and exam itself was very fatiguing...
Pardon my limited activity on blog during last few days, but I have my reasons - I’m working hard on PMP exam preparation. The outcome will be know tomorrow, as this is the day of TEST :) 200 questions, 4 hours of full focus and the short answer - got...
