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 "...
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:...
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 you a...
1.) If you still claim that web interfaces can’t manage sophisticated functionality, I’ve got something that may finally convince you - a programming IDE in the web: Cloud9! Full fledged editor, integrated with version control, on-line collaboration and everything’s "in the cloud". Obviously it supports...
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...
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...
