TL; DR Rating: 2.5 stars. Overall, a really good introduction to Domain Driven Development. However, the author spends too much time selling his other book on domain driven development. If the w...

TL; DR Take responsibility to help those who are not being heard to be heard. Photo by Anete Lusina from Pexels The Voice Often Not Heard Every meeting has them. They are the silent individu...

TL; DR There are a lot of boundries that divide an office into discreet groups. There are also incentives that can cause these groups to see each other as enemy rather then people working toward a...

TL; DR “Don’t repeat yourself” helped developers avoid pitfalls and a host of bad designs. That is until it did not. The question started to become duplication vs coupling. Which is better and whe...

TL; DR Planning rites of passage basically looks the same. The results are different, but that is because of contextual differences. When you look over all the previous posts in this series the si...

TL; DR Transformation is a big complex thing. By looking at how people’s relationships and work changes you can use rites of passage to illuminate just how complex it really is. Photo by Shiva...

TL; DR When someone’s role changes this is, by definition, an event that changes someone’s social role in a group or groups. This is the perfect time to utilize a rite of passage to help with the ...

TL; DR When a person leaves a company, everyone who worked with that person enters a transition period, and a time of uncertainty. This is true whether the persons departure was planned, unplanned...

TL; DR Hiring a new employee comes with a whole lot of uncertainty that most companies do not address well. Looking at our onboarding as a rite of passage can help us address this uncertainty and ...

TL; DR Rites of Passage help people transition through periods of uncertainty by both giving them a known and accepted routine to focus on, and by signaling to the individual and group that a chan...