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 "...
Disclaimer: Developer Experience is NOT about work experience, seniority or proficiency level. It's about how Developers perceive the sum of their work conditions (tools, processes, constraints, etc.) & how it impacts their efficiency & productivity. Analogy to UX/CX is definitely in place. > TL;DR - Software developers...
> TL;DR - Sometimes I get an impression that there are people who got "promoted" to Senior Developer even before releasing anything to production ... Clearly the length of tenure is not the key determinant here, but neither should be the 100% memorizing of given framework's / library...
> TL;DR - These are not just great times to be a Software Engineer - it's even better to be a Software Engineering Manager. Plenty of open development opportunities help in shaping your own, individual professional profile. Physical world borders are far less constraining in that industry. True engineering...
> TL;DR OSS has conquered the world, forcing even the biggest players of commercial software market to adjust their strategy to this fact. But the original idea of OSS has got somehow twisted in the meantime: everyone uses it, without feeling obliged to contribute. What is more, consumers expect...
> TL;DR Software Development technology adoption lifecycle [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_adoption_life_cycle] is susceptible to the same rules that apply to any other high-tech. Market success is not guaranteed by sheer innovation, technical excellence or even product capabilities - it does require certain qualities, but...
Disclaimer: I'm writing these words just few days before the official release of Visual Studio 2017 RTM & about 2 months before the release of .NET Core 2.0. Hence you may find this post a bit pre-mature, but actually timing is on purpose - I'd...
