[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….
Author: Tomek Kaczanowski
Meetings – efficiency vs. human element
Recently I read an article about the (alleged) fall of Holacracy and one part related to meetings draw my attention. I’m interested in the topic of meetings efficiency for quite a long time. It reminded me of a novel way of facilitating a meeting that I witnessed during a Sociocracy 3.0 training some time ago. What…
Sociocracy 3.0 Effectiveness Review – Part 2
[Feb 2018: S3 changed the name from Effectiveness Review to Peer Review] Since the last blog post(see http://tomek.kaczanowscy.pl/2016/12/sociocracy-3-0-effectiveness-review/) we run 2 more effectiveness reviews (ER in short). This blog post gathers my thought, comments and lessons learned. Hope you find it useful. Preparations. Based on previous experience I took the following steps to make the next effectiveness…
Sociocracy 3.0 Effectiveness Review
[Feb 2018: S3 changed the name from Effectiveness Review to Peer Review] I rarely write about S3, but when I do, it is long and boring. 🙂 Below you will find my experiences with the S3 effectiveness review – an idea that I borrowed from S3. I hope that maybe some comments that I share will help…
Interview Tool: Moving Motivators
Recently I had few interviews with graphic designers. This was definitely outside my comfort zone because my knowledge of the topic is… well, very limited. However, my task wasn’t to check their graphic skills. This was already done by my colleagues. My task was to get to know them better. To see whether they “fit…
Explaining Programming to 6 Years Old Kids
The task: explain what you do at work to a group of 6 years old kids. Level: high (my own daughter was among the kids). Many people shared their ideas of such “lectures” – you can find some really interesting examples on Stack Overflow (e.g. here). Many of them are based on the idea of presenting…
ACE! 2016
My findings from the 7th ACE! conference (Krakow, Poland). They say that “When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.” So maybe I was ready, and ACE! appeared in the right moment to teach me a gazillion of things. Frankly, I can’t remember any other event that I finished with so many new pointers, new…
Shit Umbrella
Recently I had an opportunity to meet some people working in big corporations. One of the things we discussed was role of leader/manager. They used the term “shit umbrella” to describe the role of such person. If you are unfamiliar with the term, here is the definition from urban dictionary: It’s the unofficial title for…
Rules For Meetings
The Internet is full of “10 Rules For Effective Meetings” blog posts so why not create my own? Sure, why not? These are the guidelines I try to follow when organizing meetings. They work fine for me in the context of the company I work for (flat structure, ~80 people, no managers, no corpo-bullshit). I have…
Notes About Changes
During the Unexpected Meetup: 1st Open Space I had an opportunity to discuss the topic of changes with fellow Scrum Masters / Team Leads / Agile Coaches. Here are some notes (subjective and incomplete): Books to read: Our Iceberg Is Melting More Fearless Change You shouldn’t expect that your team will come with new change proposal…