How to focus and have self-discipline — No goal should be an achievement on its own, but the process itself helps us to go in the direction of these goals. Goals, in business and in life in general, should be conceived as directions, where their real intention is to help us accomplish more in the way we…

How to become a Senior Software Developer? — We all have been junior developers at some point. This is easy to know because it’s at the very beginning of your carrier. Your responsibilities were narrowed down by other peers who were looking after you. …

The power of authority and obedience — Originally published in: https://chemaclass.es/blog/the-power-of-authority-and-obedience/ Milgram was interested in researching how far people would go in obeying an instruction if it involved harming another person, and how easily people could be influenced into committing atrocities. For example, Germans in WWII. The experiment During the 1960s, the psychologist Stanley Milgram conducted a series of…

It’s an integration, not a choice — Originally published in: https://chemaclass.es/blog/london-vs-chicago/ There are two known schools in TDD: the mockist school (aka Outside-in) and the classicist school (aka Inside-out). Context In TDD, there are two known schools: the mockist school (aka Outside-in) and the classicist school (aka Inside-out). Why London and Chicago? Two companies, one from London and another from Chicago, claimed…

Managing the two kinds of work — Originally published in: https://chemaclass.es/blog/red-work-blue-work/ ‘Blue Work’ (thinking) and ‘Red Work’ (doing) are concepts that David Marquet describes in his book Leadership is Language. Both require different mindsets and have different languages. “Doing” in our traditional leadership style will not take us to where we need to be in the future. What is “Red Work”?

Design or Workflow? — Originally published in: https://chemaclass.es/blog/tdd-vs-bdd/ These are two different techniques. The key to each of them is about the mindset and context of what you want to achieve. BDD is a “test-driven feature” Basically, it’s a test-first driven development, where the main focus is ensuring the expected final behavior, and therefore the result of the software…

It’s not a promotion. It’s a role change. — Archetypical Story The Trident Career Model by Patrick Kua has three tracks. Each track represents where people spend most of their time or energy. Individual Contributor 70–80% time spent on “Executing, doing”. Designing. Testing. Coding. Management 70–80% time spent on “Managing the system”. Planning. Organizing. Supporting. Budgeting. Technical Leader