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 "...
This news is a bit outdated, but as far as I know they were few people interested in some details of PSM II (http://www.scrum.org/scrummaster/). Here you go: 1. I didn’t even try to hide the fact, that I was interested in completing the PSM II...
Does everyone know Microsoft’s Patterns & Practices? It’s a part of MSDN Library (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff921345) where Microsoft publishes some deep dive articles (some would rather say - “books”) where you can find out how to deal with interesting topics using Microsoft technologies. My...
No, this is not gonna be another “certification obtaining” story. Today, at 04:28 AM my little daughter was born. What can I say more? I’m absolutely delighted, bewildered and in love with this tiny, cute human being. I have nothing else to add for now :)...
.NET world is lacking a good BPM solution based on Microsoft stack. That’s why if I hear about BPM projects, it’s usually something in Java. We (my current employer) haven’t sold many projects like that in Poland, but we have few minor credentials. As those references are...
Record your own tutorial videos with Wink Are you using CMS to publish the information for other people? Do you blog or maintain a project wiki or something similar? If you do, don’t you agree that one picture is worth of thousand words? If so, how much is video...
As some of you already know (those ones who follow me on twitter - @liveweird [https://twitter.com/liveweird]), I’ve finished reading the book I had mentioned before - David Anderson’s "Kanban" [http://www.amazon.com/Kanban-ebook/dp/B0057H2M70]. And … I’m a bit puzzled. I don’...
