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1 Week Sprint – After Few Weeks.

Posted on October 12, 2019February 7, 2021 by Tomek Kaczanowski

1 week sprint is enough to get things done once you get a hang of it. Give it a try and see how your team improves.

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Outsource Your Memory or Strenghten It?

Posted on October 5, 2019October 7, 2020 by Tomek Kaczanowski

I often hear myself and others say things like “If I don’t write it down there is no way I’m gonna remember it” or “Please send me an email with this ’cause I will forget about it in a minute.”. The fact is, that we are all overburdened with an abundance of tasks we need…

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1 Week Sprint Hurts. But in a Valuable Way.

Posted on September 16, 2019October 13, 2020 by Tomek Kaczanowski

Is 1 Week Sprint a good or a bad idea? There is only one way to find out. It works fine for us. Here are the pros and cons.

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Sprint Plan

Posted on September 12, 2019October 13, 2020 by Tomek Kaczanowski

Ah, the plans… You spent hours preparing them and then… eh…

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My X Is Better Than Your Y!

Posted on August 30, 2019November 2, 2022 by Tomek Kaczanowski

How not to waste time on pointless discussion about personal preferences? Use consent and experiments to bypass them.

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TeamRetro – YAORT (Yet Another Online Retrospective Tool)

Posted on August 28, 2019November 8, 2022 by Tomek Kaczanowski

Yet Another Online Retrospective Tool but this one, TeamRetro, works good for us.

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Killing daily meeting (one dev at a time)

Posted on August 12, 2019August 12, 2019 by Tomek Kaczanowski

Daily meeting can go horribly wrong. One of the anti-patterns is to follow the “dev by dev” approach. There are better ways.

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Decider AKA Hand Gestures

Posted on August 9, 2019November 3, 2022 by Tomek Kaczanowski

If only decision taking was as simple as presenting your thumb up or down! Well, actually, it can be. 🙂

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Angry User UX Rant – Part 1

Posted on June 25, 2019November 8, 2022 by Tomek Kaczanowski

We design UX/UI since oh-so-long and still some some webapps do it soooo wrong! It is truly annoying. Eh.

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No Feast Without Fasting

Posted on June 15, 2019October 7, 2020 by Tomek Kaczanowski

My laptop broke. Long story short, I had to buy an old Windows machine and worked with it for almost three months. It was very inconvenient comparing to what I had previously. Then I got a new one. Shiny, fast, light etc. – a dream machine. Even now, few weeks after I got it, I…

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