A Regular Talk That Matters These days I often heard of the department reorganization plan so that some colleagues started worrying about whether there would be a wave of laid-off. I know HR wants to follow one of the rules: maximumly intensify talented people, which was carried out in Netflix — NO RULE RULES. …

Making the Complicated Simple Last time I stated the 5 attributes of a complex system. It’s amazing that we could categorize properties of complicated systems into several groups in convenient for others to further investigate their own internal components. Today I am going to step forward to another topic — Object. Does it seem…

The Simplest Thing Is The Hardest Thing If you would like to construct the highest building of the globe, a sound foundation must be the first consideration in the very beginning, so as the software development. A better up-front design affects the following system development life cycle. …

An Episode of Retrospective Meeting In the recent sprint retrospective when we were talking about the process optimization of the development. A backend engineer mentioned that now he also took the responsibility to design the overall system architecture that a software architect should do since we did not have this role in our team. …

Knowledge Is Power As Carried Out Inspired by DbC (Design By Contract), I started experiencing the concept from the process of implementing several contracts to clarify whether a client (caller) or a supplier (callee) takes charge of function correctness. I’ve posted several articles recording my learning path about it. Step Inside Design By Contract Nature of Reliabilityuragilecoach.medium.com Implement Design by Contract in Rust

The Servant: A Simple Story About the True Essence of Leadership The Servant: A Simple Story About the True Essence of Leadership [Hunter, James C.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on…www.amazon.com Its name caught my eyes because my brain suddenly popped up “Servant Leadership” at the first sight. In fact, although the Scrum guide indicates a Scrum master should behave like a servant to coach a team. It does not articulate what the “Servant Leadership” should look like, even if I…

The Most Inspiring Moment These sprints were the smoothest ones I’ve ever gone through since you came to our team. Nothing is valuable than an authentic praise from your colleagues. Last time when we were holding the sprint retrospective, we compared the differences among before/after the Scrum was adopted. There were some feedbacks needed…

Practice Makes Perfect I have been investigating the DbC since January and have adopted its spirit in my Rust side project. Along the journey to making use of the practice, I would like to share my thoughts as well as feelings with those who haven’t stepped inside the technique. After all, the most…

A Doubtful Question I was asked a meaningful question after the first internal Scrum training. What do you mean about a Cross-Functional Team? Well, before answering the question, let’s go back to the original description in the Scrum Guide first. Scrum Teams are cross-functional, meaning the members have all the skills necessary to…