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 "...
What I'm about to write down right now may seem a bit controversial. Well, there may even be some who take it personally - however please rest assured that this post is not targeted at anyone in particular. So if you feel it may apply to you, keep calm...
Let's start with the question: > How does the organization you work for (outside of your team!) impact your everyday's work (as a software engineer)? I mean: * what does the organization do to make you / help you become a better engineer ? * what's being done...
We tend to think about software development as a very special & unique "discipline", positioned somewhere in the middle between science, engineering, craft, even art. And in the end we keep finding out that the same patterns & behaviours we observe everywhere else, apply in software development as...
There are more and more open software developer positions in the market. And it's not just about quantity - breadth & variety of roles, technologies, platforms & languages continuously increases - to the satisfaction of all of us. But if you look carefully at the full spectrum of offers available,...
"Your theory contradicts the facts!" Roughly half a year ago I've written a blog post [https://no-kill-switch.ghost.io/fifty-shades-of-success/] about "success". Not any particular success, but the success in general - my point was that sometimes the knowledge we...
I've noticed just recently that in all my ramblings regarding cognitive psychology & how does it impact my own private & professional life, I've somehow omitted one of terms I personally value very high & find truly important - "Flow". The Flow What's...
