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...
The Flow. The Workflow. The Chain of Activities. The Process. Things may happen & one day cruel, merciless & vengeful fate may put you in charge of defining how people are supposed to work. Or how are their tools supposed to aid their work. It's quite a wide...
I've spend some time on prototyping a modular SPA hub that meets the following core requirements: * from users perspective - it all looks like one app (seamless navigation, same looks, shared layout, etc.) * it consists of independently developed (by different people) modules, BUT these modules may use other...
Surprise, surprise - six months have already passed since previous edition [http://thoughtworks.fileburst.com/assets/technology-radar-jan-2014-en.pdf] of Technology Radar. Obviously no-one says it has to be treated as an absolute & accurate snapshot of reality - but if you check the past reports, it clearly visible that they...
Setting your applications may get really messy - especially on Linux: different applications have different configuration approaches, they keep their binaries & data in different file-system locations (these differ because apps may have origins within varying Linux distributions). Once you set things up once, it's pretty hard to...
Quite recently I've spend some time on discussing the development efficiency & how things have changed within last few years: you don't need whole development factory to achieve something meaningful. If you use modern tools & development techniques PLUS you have capable & motivated people you...
When I was working about my last blog post, the one about outsourcing the pain, I've come up with an idea of one, interesting type of pain software developers tend to forget about. Wait, they don't forget about it, they usually intentionally pretend it does not...
