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...
Straight to business - I've participated in a very interesting discussion about development architecture recently: which scenario works better & brings more benefit to the organization: 1. each team is responsible for all their deployment / maintenance mechanisms separately (let's call it Scenario A) 2. there'...
I've finally read Jobs'es biography. The book [http://www.amazon.com/Steve-Jobs-Walter-Isaacson-ebook/dp/B004W2UBYW/ref=sr_1_4?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1403383547&sr=1-4&keywords=walter+isaacson] itself (authored by Walter Isaacson) is almost as famous as the leading character...
Have you heard about the Poppendiecks? Mary & Tom? I did, but somehow I've skipped reading their books until now. It's not like they've written zillion of them (because they've written just 3 AFAIK), but it seems that when they release something,...
I've spotted a nice meme today. The pic itself is meaningless, but the text comment was a true killer: > We will continue having lots of meetings until we find out why no work is getting done. Nail'd it. Don't you think? It may...
In general, the larger the company is, the more it aims for covering the software-related risks by paying for external support services. And it makes sense, at least in theory: * the bigger the company, the more complex its business is * the more complex the business is, the more software is...
Quite recently I've had an interesting discussion about the differences between developing applications in various IT ecosystems (OS + platform + language + IDE + libs + ...) - why do some of them suck (always suck / usually suck / sometimes suck) and why some suck more than other. Obviously, these questions are not easy...
