Nov 5, 2021My READ.MEContext This is a document I share with everyone in our Engineering team at Medenterprises. I am sharing this here for the benefit of our future Engineering team members. I hope that this can give you a bit more feel for what working with me is like. Why a READ.ME document? If you reading this…Transparency8 min readTransparency8 min read
Jan 21, 2021Give yourself an A — a guide for planning your best year yetAfter my last post where I described how I wanted my 2021 to look like, I got several people asking to describe my process of writing the letter to myself. Below are the steps I follow. Enjoy 🙂 Read about the 3rd practice from The Art of Possibility book or…Planning3 min readPlanning3 min read
Jan 17, 2021Giving myself an A — the letter to myself (2021)Dear Jakub from the past, Today is December 31st 2021 and I must admit that I have been feeling grateful, optimistic, kind and at ease. It has not been a year of a big transformation bur rather small evolutions in many areas. The death of my Dad in January was…Goals5 min readGoals5 min read
Published inClean Agile·Jan 5, 2021Thank you 2020Exactly one year ago I wrote a letter to myself. This was a letter written from a perspective of my future me, a letter written in December 2020. It was my way to set up intentions, aspirations and goals for myself for 2020. Obviously, in January 2020, when I was…20209 min read20209 min read
Dec 9, 2020What every agile coach should read?Learning, growing and discovering are some of the strongest motivations for many agile coaches. And there are not many better ays to learn something new than reading a good book. So with the Christmas time coming you could decide to spend some time re-watching TV classics or you could read…Books1 min readBooks1 min read
Nov 11, 2020Emotional Culture Deck + 25/10 Crowd sourcingAs you may know, I’m a huge fan of using the Emotional Culture Deck to help people connect and to engage them in co-creation of the emotional culture that would help them thrive. I’ve already described the main steps that you could use in a workshop to shape the basics…Emotional Culture Deck4 min readEmotional Culture Deck4 min read
Oct 18, 2020System thinking, authorised decision rights and the advice monsterThis is the second edition od my newsletter. Click HERE if you’d like to subscribe. Kia Ora, Everything is connected! This is the main message from the new TV docuseries from Netflix — “Connected”. The journalist Latif Nasser investigates ways in which we are linked to each other and to…Agile4 min readAgile4 min read
Published inClean Agile·May 12, 2020Agile Coaching Lab has started!We’ve just launched Agile Coaching Lab 💡❤️ 7 courageous people joined me on this journey of self-improvement and discovery of the craft of agile coaching and scrum mastery. As part of our first session, we created a letter to ourselves, a letter from the future — what would our future…Coaching2 min readCoaching2 min read
Published inClean Agile·Jan 5, 2020The letter to myself, sent in December 2020Dear Jakub from the past, Today is December 31st 2020 and I must admit that I have been very happy and fulfilled in the passing year. A lot of good things have happened and I have become the person I wanted to be. I am happy because I could help…Future4 min readFuture4 min read
Published inClean Agile·Dec 19, 2019Thank you 20192019 was a great year, with a lot of things happening, great learnings. Here are some of the my highlights. Auckland Agile Coaching meetup The meetup grew to over 1200 members on meetup.com and almost 300 in our Slack workspace. There were months were we had sessions every week and…Agile5 min readAgile5 min read
