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...
Last few weeks have been quite busy for me and my gang of Merry Men. We're doing a lean project of development architecture refreshment for a large enterprise and we're not wasting time - we aim to deliver the changes as quickly & frequently as possible...
This is part III of coupling consideration topic. If you want to check my past coupling-related posts, you can find them here: * Part I [http://gebski.tumblr.com/post/76150235763/the-silent-assassin-that-knows-no-mercy-how] - the theory of coupling * Part II [http://gebski.tumblr.com/post/77632428220/the-silent-assassin-that-knows-no-mercy-how] - practical examples of coupling...
If you know me in person, you most likely already know that I'm batshit crazy about DDD (Domain Driven Design [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain-driven_design], not Degenerative Disc Disease ...). As DDD is the kind of topic everyone speaks about but only few actually use this method...
The idea of ownership may be tricky and gets easily misunderstood or excessively exaggerated (some would say - demonized), especially by Agile dogmatists and people with limited imagination: I never said those two groups are the same though :) That's why I'd like to be perfectly clear...
Once again, I had some plans for the post, but the brutal life has forced me to change them and write about something else - the real life situation I've encountered today has reminded me some past discourse about what actually is a true border between being amateur...
Disclaimer For all those who don't know me personally and read this just to learn about Scalar Conf (http://scalar-conf.com/) - I am not and I never claimed to be a Scala guru. I come from .NET world, this is my natural environment I predate within. I&...
