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  • Space for the joy of work

    Space for the joy of work

    I was reminded today how much that matters. In the retrospective the things people care about, things they’d really like to do, but cannot because all the other work is ‘scheduled’ is what gets more and more voices join to join in, ideas being thrown in by even the quietest of team members. I tried…

    wiktorgancarz

    May 11, 2022
    Agile, Joy, People
  • Making connections

    Making connections

    When most of us think of this subject we probably imagine bringing people together, us sitting somewhere central, helping to facilitate discussion…but what happens after that initial moment? Everyone goes back to their desks, starts working on their current item, responds to emails, etc. What I am learning today is that there’s not enough value…

    wiktorgancarz

    May 10, 2022
    Agile, Lean, People, Scaling
  • Asking for permission

    Asking for permission

    Recently we attended one more of the change advisory (also known as approval) board meetings. We were kindly asked to provide more detail … and that’s the boring part of the story. The interesting part is the difference in the weight of arguments from the friends we brought into the discussion. Again, we were surprised…

    wiktorgancarz

    May 9, 2022
    Agile, People
    productmanagement
  • Simplicity of Joy?

    wiktorgancarz

    July 11, 2018
    Lean
  • The magic ingredient

    Several years ago I was involved in a programme of work that tried to do agile at scale (small scale, 4-5 teams). At that time most of us that were driving the change agenda thought we had a million and one things to fix, so after reaching a milestone in the plan and finding something that…

    wiktorgancarz

    March 26, 2018
    Lean
  • Bare people and empty containers

    An example of how well the DevOps team was doing spreading their practices was recently used to encourage us who work with people to repeat their success. As much as I would like to follow their methods of innovating and introducing new things I’m struggling with it. As per the title, I think my biggest…

    wiktorgancarz

    January 10, 2018
    Lean
  • Only flow is important

    I had this struggle in my head about dealing with interruptions/disruptions in the sprint for a very long time now. We and I have tried all kinds of process/people changes to prevent anything impacting what we do for the two weeks of work we committed, given it a goal, priorities to and called it a…

    wiktorgancarz

    December 13, 2017
    Lean
  • One small step … or a big leap

    wiktorgancarz

    November 13, 2017
    Agile, Lean
  • Never stop never stopping

    Yesterday I had a good lesson from one of my teammates about the pace of change and feeling of having a goal that is so far away that it seemed like a good one 🙂 That was shattered the moment he showed me this. Up until that moment, I thought if we get to “there”…

    wiktorgancarz

    September 27, 2017
    Daily, Lean
  • Fix the problem

    Today I stopped myself from hiding a problem. I already had a message typed in that would allow me to get the right tools and access to take on a task that is painful and seen as a blocker by the team. Yes, you guessed it, I was going to do our deployments 🙂 But…

    wiktorgancarz

    September 13, 2017
    Daily, Lean
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