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...
.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...
1.) My favourite dev tool creators - JetBrains - have announced the feature set of forthcoming, new version of ReSharper (7). You can find it here: http://blogs.jetbrains.com/dotnet/2012/07/resharper-7-whats-inside/. To be honest, no breakthrough detected (but none expected anyway). Things worth being noticed are: * WinRT...
Agilista- according to the urban dictionary ( http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Agilista) is a practitioner of agile software development who is fanatical about following the Agile Manifesto. Well, that’s not exactly what I became (yet?), but yesterday I’ve passed successfully the Professional Scrum Master I assessment...
I’ve decided to verify my agile project management skills - to be precise: Scrum ones. The most famoust Scrum certificate is Certified Scrum Master (CSM) - unfortunately it doesn’t mean anything as you’re awarded CSM after completing the course, regardless of assessment result (even 0 points makes...
