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...
Few weeks ago I've noted down an interesting notion that someone has mentioned during one of the discussions I've participated in: > hedging technology The overall idea is simple, you may recognize it from hedging funds or hedging bets. Hedging technology is expanding your area of...
The way people tend to twist the idea of self-organization & bottom-up team empowerment is both scary & fascinating in the same time. But the amusing part fades away quite quickly when you realize all the inefficiency & impotency that happen as a side effect. One of the most common...
One has to be remain realistic - sometimes even positively hyped, mature, proven ideas with strong foundations can't break into mainstream. That has happened (is happening) for Actor Model [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor_model] (AM) & I believe that quite likely it will stay like this....
Craft Conference [http://beta.craft-conf.com/] is A-MUST-ATTEND on my conference list for each consecutive year. I tend to prefer specialized events (dedicated to particular method / technology / platform), but Craft allures me with its "crafters for crafters" approach - speaker list is totally dominated by engineers & other...
This blog post has been inspired by the following article: Where the hell are all the great senioer software developers and hands-on engineering directors [https://medium.com/@obie/where-the-hell-are-all-the-great-senior-software-developers-and-hands-on-engineering-directors-b88b0d15fbdf] . "You talk like a developer" Let's start with a short story: New dev comes to me as...
Docker [https://www.docker.com/] is The Thing these days. Pretty much everyone has heard about it - how lean, lightweight & useful it is. Most likely you have seen the eye-catchy logo, went through very approachable tutorial, watched some basic demos. But did you try to look through the...
