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...
By some kind of coincidence :) I was doing a short public presentation few days ago & just few days after that I was in a crowd of spectators during few hours long (yikes!) presentation stream. I hope you'll all agree with me - there won't be...
Few days ago I've found absolutely tremendous post [http://haacked.com/archive/2014/07/28/github-flow-aliases/] about practical Git usage - written by GitHubber & ex-Microsoftie: Phil Haack. The post itself is all about aliases Phil uses in his every-day scenarios. Even if I use Git & GitHub...
Yupp, it is now. Because there's an article about that on Forbes [http://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonbloomberg/2014/07/11/is-enterprise-architecture-completely-broken/] . Ok, seriously, did anyone have any delusions about EA being alive recently? Let's face the reality - people are struggling to: * gather the requirements...
I am quite tempered, so if I were to name all the things that annoy me, the litany could be quite long ;) It applies to both personal & professional topics of course. Speaking about the latter - one of the behaviors that immediately raise my temperature at least by 3...
My team-mates used to say that I do marketing. A lot of marketing. I tend to speak a lot about what we (as a team) do, how we do that & why it's so freaking awesome. Obviously I'm still careful about what precisely I can tell...
Amazon's content offensive continues - Bezos & gang have just officially announced a new service - Amazon Kindle Unlimited. There's no need for long descriptions: AKU is pretty much Netflix equivalent for books. In theory, it's plainly awesome - I pay a monthly fee...
