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...
Another conference (Confitura 2015 [http://2015.confitura.pl/#/]), another boost of positive energy, inspiring ideas, sense of belonging to dynamic & developing community. I'll skip the usual session reviewing part this time, I'll focus on a very selective list of personal remarks instead: Charity Confitura'...
Few days ago, someone send me the link to short post attributed to Meryl Streep: https://ioadicaeu.wordpress.com/2014/07/31/i-no-longer-have-patience/ In the end it appears that the actual author was a guy named José Micard Teixeira. * Who is he? I have no clue. * What caused the mistake?...
The more I think about it, the more I am against strict code ownership ("my stuff = my commits"). I mean - yes, there has to be someone who 'owns' the piece of functionality (for the sole purpose of supervision, roadmapping, etc.), but the more people put...
My observation is that these days I'm not buying the products (primarily applies to digital goods) or services (over the Internet) anymore. Or rather: not products or services as we knew them few years ago: 1. I don't buy finished books, I buy early versions &...
Spotting an interesting product developing is always nice. And spotting a product that is related to few favorite topics of yours is almost like winning the lottery ;) That's why Hyperledger [http://hyperledger.com/] has grabbed my undivided attention so easily: * it's highly distributed in a way...
What I'm going to write below is nothing new for anyone who've done fully fledged distributed systems development. BEAM veterans, hAkkers, Rafters, ZooKeeper consensus pursuers or Paxos tribe would probably call me Cpt. Obvious, but surprisingly (or not) majority of .NET people I meet & talk...
