[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 (currently called “peer review”) – an idea that I borrowed from S3. I hope that maybe some comments that…
Retrospective Tool: Improv Cards
Yet another retrospective warm-up exercise. But a good one.
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
How to explain to 6 years old what do software developers do? Here is what I did.
Shit Umbrella
Should a leader protect his team? Yeah, surely he should. But maybe there is more to be done? Maybe a leader can do much more?
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…