personal thoughts on freedom, politics and business
Sometimes I feel like the moment I leave a project alone something bad happens to it but failing basic features 6 weeks in a row is over the top. With others now failing basic features: unusable, wrong or just not completing (at all) I should have feel bloody satisfaction but instead I’m actually a bit… Read more
Szybcy developerzy fajnie motywują, jeżeli zajmuje im mniej czasu na zrealizowanie zmiany niż mi zajmuje jej wyspecyfikowanie w szczegółach. Niekiedy to jest rzeczywiście więcej pracy tylko sprawę przemyśleć i rozpisać właściwie tak aby istotnie to było mniej pracy dla innych, ale pokazuje ile potencjalnie można cały proces przyspieszyć: 1. Ponowne używanie kodu – zajmuje sporo… Read more
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Today is one month and counting since I spoken with S. and stopped working on the breakthrough widget. According to the plan we had been one week to completing the phase one implementation. The discussion was also about the pace of development. It’s been one month later and the widget is still not running… It’s… Read more
Leaving is always a good idea when you hit a brick wall. It’s hard to tell if you’re facing a wall or not yet because things happen as a vector of many driving forces that drive the whole team. In fact you can’t tell if you’re facing a brick wall or not. It might be… Read more
Many years ago I worked for a manager who replaced the guy I really loved working with. Nothing wrong with that, just the usual in a sense that it just happens. Perhaps, this was even one of those football field situations I blogged about few times already… I liked the guy who had left back… Read more
There’s more than few things we haven’t progressed with PHH this year and actually in some respects we’ve moved backwards: – scalability. We went down on number of machines and deprecated load balancing which has impaired the ability to respond at peak times and made the whole system vulnerable to outages. – availability. Wrong implementation… Read more
Jak wiecie skracam cykle i będę chciał skracać nadal, ponieważ uważam że liczy się dynamika zmian, bardziej niż jakość, w tym sensie że jeżeli tylko dajesz użytkownikom coś co nawet nie działa, ale tym samym nie odbierasz tego co już im dałeś co działało to robisz progress. Albo inaczej: lepiej zrobić jakość w stu inkrementacjach… Read more
Probably unlike many I truly believe that a company should be run a like well organised small army with clear chains of command, orders and execution. I don’t believe in micro-management or macho culture but at the top of each successful organisation there must be management with strong focus on involvement and discipline based on… Read more