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 "...
… the next moment when someone comes to you with surprisingly interesting idea. And that happened to me few days ago, when two guys from client side approached me to ask for my opinion about library they’ve found in Microsoft Dev Labs. That’s how I started my adventure with...
Microsoft, like many other vendors who offer technical solutions in IT, offers a wide certification program for technology specialists (not only developers, but also administrators). As each certification is obtained by passing the more or less demanding exam (or even few exams), it’s a supposed to be a certain...
Yesterday I’ve spent several hours on a workshop at one of our local financial services clients, here in Poland. The audience consisted of several low-level managers and senior developers from client’s IT department and my co-speaker was a head of development team from the same client...
Martin Fowler is a living legend. Period. His “Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture” is still one of very few books every solution architect wannabe should get familiar with. His famous article about Dependency Injection and Inversion of Control ( http://martinfowler.com/articles/injection.html) was one of the milestones in...
This is the first post in the series of migrated WP posts. I was thinking about starting a blog here for some time. It doesn’t mean I’m the kind of man, who’s screaming for any attention he can get. Or that I measure my life accomplishments with...
