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 "...
To make sure it's 100% clear, a short reminder: this blog post represents my private comments, statements, and viewpoints. They should not be associated with my employer - either the current one or the past ones. The opinions quoted in this article have popped up during casual, social conversations,...
Opinion (mine), not a fact: 95% of currently existing truly decentralized systems (typically blockchain-based) are rubbish. Or, if you're asking for more precise classification, they can be allotted as follows: * systems that should never be decentralized (because there's no point) - example: all the corpo-blockchains...
We live in interesting times. Who could have guessed that the next powerful buzzword after "agile", "big data", and "cloud" will be "diversity" (or, to a full extent: "diversity, equity, and inclusion" - DE&I). Nope, I don't...
EURO 2020 has just finished a few days ago, and it was a hell of a ride. Regardless of conditions (no single location, pandemic period, lack of fans at the venues), the players have created some spectacular shows - ones we will be getting back to for years or even decades....
This is not a post aimed to revisit all the principles of conscious career development. This is a post about a nasty trick used by some employers to retain valuable people - by providing them a mirage of what they expect. This is a post about horizontal promotions (HPs). What is...
It never ceases to amaze me that so frequently, the best ideas are the simplest ones. They are so obvious and always within our reach that we tend to overlook them consistently. I've (sort of) stumbled over such an idea today while listening to Elad Gil's...
