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...
During last few days I was exposed to few issues that have raised between people of two different roles (profiles?): managers & their subordinates. How unlikely, right? :) Although these were very different cases, that happened between very different people (in different organizations, even in different industries - but all of...
[ This is part II, you can find the part I here [https://no-kill-switch.ghost.io/two-things-people-keep-doing-on-daily-basis-part-i/] ] Enough about problems, let's assume they are properly identified and you know how to address them - in a way that will truly add value. The problem appears when you want to...
Sometimes it feels like life is an endless stream of the same mistakes being committed notoriously again & again (plus some occasional stupid, irrational, semi-random behaviors from time to time). And I don't refer to any particular person, the same observation applies for yours sincerely as well. And...
Let me tell you the short fairy tale I've heard last week: > We've started development in our tech debt elimination project a few days ago. There's so much complicated work to be done & it involves so much testing effort that there'...
Nope, it's not a blog post about regrettable fate of unemployed. Client-less programmers are someone else and I'm pretty sure you've already met some of them or maybe even you've played that pitiful role in some moment of time or even (horror...
Few days ago I had a short, informal meeting with few peers - among other things, they've asked about the interesting stuff I was doing recently, including data crunching powered by Apache Hadoop [http://hadoop.apache.org/] and complex event processing with Apache Storm [https://storm.incubator.apache....
