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...
I can't recall precisely when I've heard about Conway's Law [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law] for the first time - most likely because it has left me unimpressed. > "Organizations which design systems ... are constrained to produce designs which are...
My favourite on-line collaboration tool - Slack [http://slackhq.com/] - has just published its Windows client [http://slackhq.com/post/113969353750/slack-for-windows]. Until now it was available via web browser & on mobile (I am using Android client). It sounds like a great opportunity to elaborate a bit about...
I do a lot of work in Financial Services nowadays. Taking part in projects is one thing, sharing opinions & discussing visions with plethora of people who do the same is very important as well - they provide a lot of insight that is not necessarily aligned with what I...
This have been foreseen. I've read about that 1 or even 2 years ago - I admit, I was a bit skeptical, well - let's just say "reluctant". In my opinion (those days) education was just education - you need direct teacher-student communication, individual...
I hate starting a blog post without a clear statement or a question to be answered. But sometimes it's just the best way - hopefully things will clear out for you during the reading. No more "free lunch" Technology is advancing like crazy since I can...
Among all the interesting sessions at Lambda Days [http://www.lambdadays.org/] there was one titled "The Tools That Shape Us" by Andrea Magnorsky [https://twitter.com/silverSpoon]. I liked the topic & the way it was presented, but in this blog post I'm gonna focus...
