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I have a news for you: IT industry is dominated by men. – Pawel, why don’t you tell us something we don’t know? There should be more women in the industry. Which part of “something we don’t know” you haven’t understood? Fine, you get the message. I just wonder why you don’t hire more women. […]
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A question about starting career in project management is heard pretty often. A question about value of different project management certifications usually follows. There is a bunch of standard answers for these questions. Apply for junior role in project management. Attend a course. Help your PM in her job. Get a certificate (this or another). […]
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I like presenting. I just love the fact that every time I deliver the presentation I find something new in there. It’s like having tiny epiphanies while you’re talking to a crowd. And I’m sure I wouldn’t have them if I didn’t overcome my fears and didn’t start speaking publicly. A thing which hit me […]
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I remember one of first post ideas for this blog back then, 4 years ago. It was about choosing people to promote them to management roles. I’ve never published the post and I’m glad about that. A few years ago I didn’t know about hiring and promoting managers more than typical decision maker in IT […]
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Organizational changes are hard. The bigger the company is the stronger it defends its status quo. Humans wearing their employee hats aren’t so much different from those wearing their user hats – they like what they know, thus they don’t like changes. But there’s often someone who isn’t happy with current state. So you are […]
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I often hear this excuse: “I don’t have power to change this.” Hell, I use it by myself way too often. It is a convenient excuse. Since you aren’t in position to do something the easy way you take a step back and do nothing. And this is wrong. Let’s take a typical situation: your […]
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I am a chatty guy. Catch me while I’m not overworked and I will gladly jump into discussion. If you happen to be my colleague, it may be a discussion about our company. That’s perfectly fine for me. I believe in transparency so I won’t keep all information as they were top secret. This means […]
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Under my recent post about best engineering practices I was pointed that it is just another “do whatever works for you” or “I don’t know experiment” kind of advice. Well, it was that kind of advice indeed. Have I ever given you a different one? Anyway I admit shot was on target. If someone is […]
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I was taught risk management the classic way. You know, risk log, voting for probability and impact, finding out which risks are the most painful, deciding on mitigation plan, discussing results etc. A cool thing in this old-school process is that it activates different members of the team. Even those, who wouldn’t be asked otherwise. […]
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Kanban, as any other methodology, isn’t a silver bullet. There are situations and teams when it shows its full potential but there are others where its impact will be limited. Where Kanban suits best then? Micro-sized teams It is said Scrum works best with teams of 7 or close to this size. Sometimes we deal […]
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