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Weird supper
I’m in Bern tonight and a weird thing happened to me. Everything went smooth along the way. It’s Switzerland after all, so everything works and works on time – until I reached the hotel. After checking...
View ArticleThey did it!
I’ve just looked at the new Apple “Mac and PC” ads and there is one, called Self Pity, which is exactly what I proposed here on this blog a bit more than a month ago. Wow! Guess it was so obvious it...
View ArticleNo responsibility without authority
It has been said (and written) many times that this just doesn’t work. Without authority over something one can’t be expected to deliver results. And I’m afraid I find myself in that position exactly....
View ArticleFraPort sucks
Frankfurt airport sucks. It is supposedly a world-class hub, but half of its halls are in shambles, with makeshift, ugly walls and worn down seats. What got me going was trying to find power for my...
View ArticleYet another airport
Tonight I’m at the airport. Vienna this time. I’ll be also sleeping at the airport – in the hotel on site. The hotel is rather good, but it is I think the first time when I actually sleep at the...
View ArticleLviv, Ukraine
It’s my first time to Ukraine and most stories I’ve heard about this place turn out to be true. Arrival at the airport was an interesting experience already. When the plane landed the first vehicle to...
View ArticleReturning from Ukraine
Yesterday I flown from Ukraine to Poland. What a relief it was to finally see normal, smiling people, women without cheap makeup and a clean, organized airport. Visiting Ukraine really changes one’s...
View ArticleMoving around
So, I’m moving between countries again and it is like moving between worlds a bit. Ukraine was a different world from Prague, where I was for the first two days of this week. As Lviv was run down,...
View ArticleBusiness dinner
I was sitting with my colleagues last night, eating a late dinner. For some of us, including me that day, it was the first real, hot meal. The conversation was slow, as usual only briefly touching...
View ArticleSimple story
Ours is a simple story. It looks so complex, so difficult… only to us, only now. In the ocean of the mind our two streams found each other. Again. And that is all, and yet that is so much. Isn’t it...
View ArticleChristmas memories
So, Christmas is inevitably coming. And it so occurred to me than since childhood there was only once a time when I somehow lived through this holiday and was happy with it. And when I was a kid the...
View ArticleLove as it should be
I’m meeting a lot with friends these days. Since most of them are not single I could say that I was looking at love in its different forms and stages this Christmas. Yet one meeting in particular was...
View ArticleTired…
I’m tired, so tired… I just want to rest… Rest… recharge… sleep… And wake up in a better world…
View ArticleCommunication
We’re well into our first iteration of the development project with all Scrum methods in place. We have a proper sprint backlog now, with tasks, kept in ScrumWorks. There are daily status meetings...
View ArticleEdge
It is not easy to spot the moment when an organization looses its focus. But it is surprisingly obvious once it dawns on you. It can be likened to a knife loosing its sharpness. It is hard to spot the...
View ArticleSimplicity
Simple is beautiful. But simple is also right. Ideas and thoughts worth anything can be expressed clearly and briefly. Complex systems that work are build from simple components according to simple...
View ArticleThe joy of assembling IKEA furniture
I’ve been assembling a piece of IKEA furniture again yesterday. It is not an accomplishment of any kind – it was a rather simple thing to do (any man who can’t assemble a piece of IKEA furniture based...
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New year – new challenge
The last year was quite successful – I’ve managed to change my development team into Code Sprinters and we did some interesting projects. We also have some ideas of our own that we work on – and here...
View ArticleConferences
I just realized today why I like going to conferences so much. It allows me to think. This is so because usually getting to a conference involves travel and traveling has always induced high quality...
View ArticleSomething is afoot
Bad things are happening on the markets, as everybody knows. One can read (and view talks) about all kinds or problems in the US economy, including imminent predicted collapse of the US dollar and some...
View ArticleHow easy it was…
I’ve just spent (I wouldn’t say wasted) half an hour browsing through a collection of old photographs made available by the Library of Congress on Flickr. Images of a world long gone, so old that even...
View ArticleThe power of Dilbert
It is always with amazement that I find looking at my statistics, that the set of key words that brings most of random visitors to this humble blog is “Dilbert Scrum”. This is so ever since I’ve...
View ArticleJust married
I’m happy to announce that on August 2nd me and Joanna got married at the Our Saviour Church in Cracow, Poland. It was the happiest day of my life and we both look forward to our lives together. Here...
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Pointless but cool
This is a machine that I saw today at a local mall. Made totally out of cardboard and paper it was there on display to amaze the shoppers (it did draw attention of kids and men – women at malls are too...
View ArticleAt Scrum Gathering
So I’m at the Scrum Gathering in Stockholm right now. Did my talk in the morning – it went reasonably well, did get some very good questions at the end. I think I could improve it now also after what I...
View ArticleProcessing is not thinking
The title of this post basically says it all and I could leave it without any content. But this being a blog etc. I feel I should explain further. So here you have it: It dawned on me today that most...
View ArticleVideocast
I have started a videocast with a friend – and manager of a competing software company – Paul Klipp. We have been meeting and discussing agile software development, web applications & related stuff...
View ArticleTwitterland vs. reality
I have been using Twitter for a couple of months now. It is a useful tool to follow people & trends. And a nice toy at times. But there is one thing about it that spoils the experience: it’s just...
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