Go back to the books you read years ago. The ones you still think about after all these years. The ones you learned a lot from. The ones that helped, inspired or changed you. What will happen? A new discoveries will happen. You see, the things you learn from a book aren’t only what author…
Author: Tomek Kaczanowski
Printing nicely formatted time in Google Spreadsheet
If you need to change some numbers into nicely formatted hours in Google Spreadsheet, then this article is for you. So let us say I calculate some time in minutes and want to print it as a nicely formatted hour. This is the formula that makes it happen (where A2 is the cell number to…
3 Daily Scrum Questions Considered Harmful
Still using 3 standard questions for your daily Scrum? Oh, bad news for you: you are doing it wrong.
Transparency in Scrum and Sociocracy 3.0
The different approach to transaprency by Scrum and Sociocracy 3.0
Start with the facts
I was reading Mo Gawdat’s “Solve for happy” and among other brilliant stuff I found there, there was a lot about concentrating on here & now, and also on how to stop your brain from wandering around but make it stick to the facts. And then I realized, that starting with the facts arand postponing…
JOY of Reading or ROI of Reading?
Do you love to read? Do you devour new articles that your social media peers recommend? If so, you might fall in the same trap I did. How much of what I read actually stays in my head? Which of the ideas, and tips, and good advices that (I thought) I learned created a long-lasting…
2 Productivity Tips That Cost You Nothing (And Give You A Lot!)
Are you being continuously distracted? I definitely am! And I know that it will never end — the everyday whirlwind doesn’t stop even for a minute. You can’t remove it or silence it completely. But what you can — and probably should — is to avoid adding your own distractions. Here are two simple tips that I recommend. Send Email But…
Towards perfect 1on1s
When I started I had only a vague idea of what I want: I wasn’t happy with how my 1on1s look like and I wanted to improve them. I started by writing down a rough version of my goal: “conduct perfect 1on1s”. I looked at it critically. The goal was very vague. I understood immediately…
Sociocracy 3.0 Effectiveness Review – Part 4
[Feb 2018: S3 changed the name from Effectiveness Review to Peer Review] The ERs have entered a new phase: it was the first time we run it for the second time for the same person. Few short comments and notes: If you have no (good) role description, you end up with feedback session, not a real…
Sociocracy 3.0 Effectiveness Review – Part 3
[Feb 2018: S3 changed the name from Effectiveness Review to Peer Review] My comments written down after the 4th effectiveness review (ER) at Codewise. First of all, the ERs are becoming “no-events”. I mean, people know what to expect (both the hero of ER and the participants). They come prepared, they know what to expect….