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...
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...
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 "...
The waiting is over, it's already here. Maybe it doesn't resolve all the concerns (yes, concerns, I wouldn't even call them issues), but 1.3 [http://angularjs.blogspot.com/2014/10/angularjs-130-superluminal-nudge.html] is a major update that was supposed to...
Free source of information isn't a thing yet - Internet is full of crap anyway. But a free source of valuable information is a completely different kind of story - the one we welcome with open arms. Usually. That's why Succinctly e-book series [http://www.syncfusion.com/...
There are no two dev machines that are completely alike: same software installed (& uninstalled) in the same order, same security patches applies, same OS settings, same IDE configuration. And that's great of course - developers are expected (hopefully in your company as well) to: * search for new "...
A short conversation I had today: > Me: How are we doing with X? What's the current state - how far have we gone & what's left to do? > A: Good news - we're pretty much done & it's a clear success. All...
In one of Jeff Atwood's blog [http://blog.codinghorror.com/] posts I've found an interesting reference to a very succulent interview [http://programmersatwork.wordpress.com/bill-gates-1986/] with Bill Gates. It seems ancient (1986!) & the discussed topics' range is quite wide, but there...
About two weeks ago Agile Warsaw [http://www.meetup.com/AgileWarsaw/] snatched Jurgen Appelo [http://www.jurgenappelo.com/] (who by any chance had some workshops in Poland) to give a short speech for our little :) community. If you have no clue about who's this guy, you may give...
