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 level of autonomy...
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 in...
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 "They...
As some of your already know, I had a great pleasure to participate in latest episode of DevTalk podcast [http://devtalk.pl/]. Why was it such a great pleasure? 1. Because good chat in a good company is always a pleasure :) Thanks, Maciej [http://www.maciejaniserowicz.com/]. 2. Well, it...
Breaking rocks like it's 1979 Some good analogies keep haunting me for years :) One of them I've heard from Liz Keogh [http://lizkeogh.com/] some time ago - I don't remember the exact event, but I'm sure it was live, not recorded...
We 'like' to put blame on factors that (in our opinion) lie beyond our control - stone-carved deadlines, outdated legacy, unimaginative Product Owners who always dump tech debt-related work items into abyss of Nice-To-Have. Some call it 'victimship' & it's all about giving up...
When I was starting my first paid job (as a software developer) success definition was quite simple: deliver pre-defined scope in pre-defined time (budget) & make sure that bugs don't break the general usability (you can call it a loose quality criteria ;>). A lot of things have...
Well-built service API may be a game changer. In both client-server & server-server scenario, especially if you're following the latest trend of building fine-grained, loosely coupled (micro)services. I've seen several attempts, in different languages, for different domains & running on different platforms - regardless of...
Who of you hasn't heard that from a more senior colleague / boss? > Software development hasn't truly changed at all in past 5/10/20/30 years. It's about all the same patterns / models / approaches that keep having their highs and lows alternately in...
