Few hints on what you might expect when introducing 4DX to your team(s).
Tag: tips & tricks
The secret of successful meetings? It is you.
There is one host (facilitator) and usually 5-8 participants. Now, whose behavior has more impact on the meeting effectiveness?
3 Months of Workation – India, 2019
My lessons learned during 3 months workation in India.
Read it again
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…
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…
Card Colors on Kanban Board
There are many ways to organize your kanban (or scrum) boards. One difference is the meaning of colors of cards. Here are some examples of how we can use colors so that the board tells us as much as possible about the current work. Size of task One team I worked with used the following…
42?! Great, But Now Explain Please
Your response is not valid until you can explain it.
Soft Assertions? Rarely Useful
I remember some time ago I was really excited about the idea of soft assertions. The latest blog post by Rafał Borowiec reminded me about them. …but wait, if I was so crazy about them some time ago, then how it happened that now I need to be reminded about their existence? So first of…
Rubber Duck Not Only For Code Reviews
We all know that rubber duck is programmer’s best friend (it was also proven that such duck should be yellow for maximum effect). Not surprisingly I have also a yellow toy on my desk. But it is not a duck. It is a little yellow human-like figure. Usually it sits and waits for me to…
Sign Your Work
Few days ago I learned a very simple, yet powerful trick which saved me some time. To make long story short, it happened on a test environment shared between few projects. I deployed a new version of one application there, and after some time received emails with errors. Uh-oh, apparently I have broken something! Hmm……