After Free May Days. What are we doing in the IDO-BDM team?

by Ewa Szymczak | 10 May 2024 | Bez kategorii

Free May days flew by like a #storm cloud over Masuria. As the saying goes, all good things must come to an end. But is that really true?

At @Indevops, good things happen all the time, and although I have my hands full of work, I really enjoy my active time spent working. There’s always something interesting going on, and thanks to that, even in the rain, the kids don’t get bored.

In marketing, we are currently improving our website indevops.com for you.

We have changed our email footers to new ones with links to our websites and social media. Thanks to this, you won’t have to search for information about us, because you will have all the most important information in one place. We have done a great job together, which I am very happy with.

We have a wonderful, young graphic designer @Karolina who does all the necessary graphics, images, and retouches photos for us. Adobe InDesign and Adobe Photoshop hold no secrets for her.

We do not use AI, neither when writing posts nor when creating graphics, because I am from a generation where real and original creativity is important to me. In the beginning, when I started writing for you, I tried to refine the text with AI a few times, but I simply didn’t like the effect. The text was bland and the human element, which is the most valuable thing, was lost somewhere.

So much for digressions, but returning to the marketing field, in addition to the above, we are creating a new subpage for you: Indevops Media, where you will be able to quickly find our webinars, podcasts, and most interesting publications.

We are working on a subpage for new products under the “mysterious” name Management Packs, but more about that on another occasion.

And most importantly, next week we are starting a Boot Camp for the entire IDO-BDM team, which means sales and marketing. We will be integrating, creating a common plan for further fruitful cooperation, developing a sales strategy, training and taking part in workshops. All under the watchful eye of our CEO Paweł Orzechowki and our Project Manager, Scrum Master Łukasz Maciaszek.

P.S. Even Szymon Hały from Cyprus flew in. 🙂 To expand our knowledge and build awareness of our new product Sarkan. Sarkan.io

It looks like it’s going to be an intense and creative time. As you can see, May Day didn’t make us lazy. As always, I invite you to see the photos. This time, my May memories from the beautiful Masuria. Enjoy.

All Hands on Deck

by Ewa Szymczak | 2 May 2024 | Bez kategorii

Things don’t always go according to plan, especially when working with people. Since Paweł Orzechowski gave me the new challenge of leading the IDO-BDM team, which consists of Salespeople and “my” little piece of marketing in Indevops, I have faced many challenges.

At first, there was happiness, but also thoughts of whether I could handle it?  Who else but me! Then frustration, because not everything goes “my way”, and you have to be really delicate with people.

In addition, remote work makes it difficult to collaborate. Of course, we meet “in person” from time to time, and my colleagues are really great people, but there are still squabbles. My sharp (sometimes) tongue doesn’t help.

This brings us back to the topic of ego, which I have already mentioned. So I put my ego in my pocket and look for solutions: in books, podcasts, my own experiences, conversations. I ask and talk to my husband, kids and of course my boss, but also our great scrum master Łukasz Maciaszek, “rookie” Kacper Durawa and the sales-marketing team. They give support and valuable feedback! Not advice, because you know what advice is paved with…

In Indevops, we follow the principle that intention matters. That’s why I always start with the assumption that my intentions are pure and always come from the principles that I distinguish myself by, not only at work but also in life. Empathy, trust, dialogue, mindfulness, sense of humor.

I always act in the best interests of my company. Yes, my company, because when I started working with Indevops, I really identified with its values and I really believe in the direction we are going! The path is what matters, do it so that it is good… obvious and easy solutions were never the key to cooperation in Indevops. The key is to find such #solutions that the customer is satisfied!  There is, it is the overriding principle, but I believe that as colleagues, we should also be happy while working towards achieving it.

Indevops has already grown to 28 people (a year ago when I started, there were 16 of us)!

High-class specialists from the world of #DevOps: programmers, #sales managers, scrum masters, students who are starting their adventure on the labor market and experienced experts in high-level IT, management and business.

Going back to my serving the team, yes, I deliberately use this word because management is not a good word. My colleague Łukasz made me realize that I am here to help people, not to “rule” them.

There are many interesting adventures ahead of me, as each morning #daily with the Team shows. A lot of #brainstorming and searching for the best route to success. Every day is a new challenge and a journey that I set out on. I stand up and take up the gauntlet.

Write if you want to talk about more than just #monitoring #automation or #orchestration. Just write! I’d love to tell you how we do it at Indevops!

P.S. It’s no coincidence that our team names start with IDO: I do (it)!!!

Thanks Paweł Koper for the great marketing campaign idea, but more on that another time.