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 "...
Someone really smart has once said “a picture is worth a thousand words”. Isn’t it why we use flipcharts and whiteboards all the time? It’s so easy to make your point and focus your group’s attention if you have a graphic representation of what you’re speaking...
Somehow, people use to consider just three ways of inter-process communication: * web services (that come in many styles and flavors) * file transfer * database sharing (yuck!) Undoubtedly you can cover pretty much every business scenario using those approaches only, but: 1. Connecting applications with web services (peer-to-peer paradigm)...
Microsoft is certainly aiming to fill their more-than-obvious gap in NOSQL / Big Data offering and they are going to do it in style. It has been confirmed, that Microsoft is working on their own implementation of Hadoop, which currently is in first CTP (Customer Technology Preview) stage. The...
I’ve seen an interesting (and very annoying) trend recently - people who don’t know how to lead a well structured project and / or people who lead the under-estimated projects tend to “go agile”. Unfortunately, this “agile” doesn’t have much in common with true agile approach to software...
Tonight I’m going to write a bit more personal stuff - don’t say you haven’t been warned :) I’m quite impatient usually and it gets me really anxious when I see someone making an obvious (at least to me) mistake without realizing that. In some cases I realize...
Recently I had a pleasure^M^M^M^M^M…, let’s say “an opportunity” to go through few functional specification documents prepared by various people (some of them by our staff and some by random client personnel). Honestly, it was truly a painful experience. I don’t intend to...
