This time, instead of a typical blog post, just a short advertisement / announcement. It's not that someone asked me for it or I've promised it to someone - it's just about the idea I like & find beneficial for the whole software developers community...
Another year has passed - it's the highest time to review what has happened in the past 12 months & presumably draw some conclusions for future (yes, I tend to do New Year resolutions & I don't treat them lightly) - to avoid excessive exhibitionism, I&...
Btw. I wonder how many people would associate the quote with the character without the title pic these days ;) When it comes to team endeavours (projects, etc.), there are few, critical factors that play major role in succeeding ... or failing: * shared understanding of the goal * aligned priorities & ability to...
The Formula IMHO tech skills are 10% talent + 20% engineering common-sense + 20% theoretical knowledge + 50% practical experience. If I've under-estimated any of these, it's most likely (still) the practical experience. Needless to say - it's not ANY practical experience. Going through tutorials on every...
Personally I'm a huge fan of information radiators [http://alistair.cockburn.us/Information+radiator] - I love the idea of full transparency & exposing vital, key information on continuously updated, automatically generated (from the single source of truth [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Source_of_Truth]) dashboards....
The soft stuff is the hard stuff, everyone knows that. Looking at IT projects I've seen personally / learned some details from people I trust, majority of ones that have failed, did so due to reasons absolutely not related to technology, but social interactions and communication. If you work...
