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...
Disclaimer: I am an AWS employee, but these are my private opinions. Based on my own perspective on the cloud landscape, competitive context, and what I find most valuable/interesting in the cloud services portfolios. re:Invent 2021 [https://virtual.reinvent.awsevents.com/agenda/] is history. But no worries, we&...
Disclaimer: This post will be somewhat "philosophical". Don't expect anything about technology, engineering, leadership, cloud, or even behavioral psychology. What is it about then? My initial thought (when it was still an idea, not yet put on paper) that depicts it quite nicely was "a...
Alt-culture (some call it "anti-culture") is an organization's underground, authentic culture. Different from the officially communicated (internally and externally) one. What are its key characteristics? * it consists of regular/consistent actions, behavioral patterns, values (used in everyday decision making) of the majority of the organization'...
YACT! Not YACHT! Seriously. Y-A-C-T. 2021. COVID-19. Remote first. Asynchronous work. Flexibility > colocation. No, I'm not going to re-visit the status quo (hooray!) - this post is about something different. We've embraced the new model of work, enjoyed its pros, but I haven't...
A few days ago, this thread [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29064692] gained a lot of popularity on Hacker News. The discussion was quite interesting (I encourage you to take a look), but I've nearly immediately felt the urge to expand the topic a bit. Let'...
I do a lot of diagramming these days. Visual collaboration is extremely important in my daily (architect) job, especially for remote communication when direct, face-to-face interaction is a rarity and exception (instead of being a rule). When it comes to visual modeling, I identify three categories of tools: * 100% manual...
