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...
The term HiPPO [http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/HiPPOs-highest-paid-persons-opinions] ( Highest Paid Person's Opinion) is getting quite popular in project management world (& IT in particular) recently. What's the fuss about? When there's a decision to be taken & various options are discussed, people tend...
Personally I'm a huge fan of information radiators [http://alistair.cockburn.us/Information+radiator] - I love the idea of full transparency & exposing vital, key information on continuously updated, automatically generated (from the single source of truth [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Source_of_Truth]) dashboards....
Just some random thoughts / stuff I've bumped into recently. Enjoy. Interweave tests in support I love this legacy code rule (it's supposed to help fighting the technical debt): > When you touch any existing piece of code, always leave it in at least slightly better shape...
Btw. so did/do I, so don't treat it as another "smart-ass sage tutoring the world how awesome he is" kind of post ;P People love OSS due to various reasons, naming just few: 1. some love it, because there are no license fees (which doesn&...
Below you can find few quasi-random rumblings, scratched down straight after ABE 2015 [http://2015.agilebyexample.com/]. I find full conference reviews more & more boring, so don't expect anything like that ... "By Example" - for real That's what I love MOST about ABE....
> "Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." > Albert Einstein Once upon a time ... ... there was The IT project. A project different than anything The Team did before: * a lot of R&D * a lot of "out-of-comfort-zone" stuff...
