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...
Everyone is doing some sort-of-Agile stuff these days (you wouldn't believe me, if I could tell you ... I was surprised myself ;>). As a result, I'm clenching my fists while listening about ... * test (or integration) sprints ... * velocity variance between sprints limited to X% ... * 1m sprints grouped...
This is my personal blog & I strive to keep anything related with my current employer / project / client aside, but sometimes those dimensions interfere in a way that forces (or at least pushes) me to break / bend that rule. Like today. "You must gather your party before venturing forth....
I had a completely different idea for today's blog post (ok, to be honest, I always have a few "almost-ready" blog posts waiting in queue to be published), but today's events have forced me to change the priorities. What has happened today? VSConnect [http:...
... or rather the stuff that is "OPEN". Not just because of Open Source Software [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_software], but also: * Open Platforms [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_platform] * Open Systems [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_system_(computing)] * Open Architecture [http://en.wikipedia.org/...
There are days when each discussion after some time leans toward Agile methods, and it doesn't matter whether it has started with music gig, lunch place idea or recently published book :) - the end is inevitable. Today, I feel like past two weeks consisted only of those days...
Agile By Example 2014 [http://2014.agilebyexample.com/] is over. Fortunately this year I didn't have to cancel in the very last moment, so in the end I was able to participate ;P I won't keep you hanging for long then - how was it? It...
