I love the feminine energy. Women are extremely inspiring and wonderful!!! I know, I know, it’s not women’s day, but there’s a lot going on around girls right now, including in the IT world.
There are more and more of us in this heavily male-oriented industry, and it’s mega!!!
INDEVOPS’ delegation of the fair sex, that is Marzena Malkiewicz and me already on Tuesday, June 20, 2023 in the Warsaw interiors of The Brain Embassy for the event “Women in IT”, which annually brings together IT business and great Women.
I was looking for a topic for a post that would obviously tell about the lives of myself, my fellow Indevops. It’s not easy to have a topic that wouldn’t be covered in length and breadth. Everything was already “thought”.
And then my colleagues started an office game of the popular ping-pong. Because, as you already know, sports are important in the life of Indevops.
There was a lot of laughter at this, their desk served as a ping-pong table, but the rest: palettes, balls, commitment full professional. Yes, I got the theme. Joy!
The business world associated with hard rules, rules, product, sales all important issues regarding regulations or contracts. Is there room for spontaneous joy in it?
Everything, in my opinion, is a matter of attitude and what we carry inside ourselves. And as the situation of my busy colleagues has shown, we can find time and space for small pleasures at any time. Even with a heavy workload, we can find a moment for a short party to get the endorphins, or happiness hormones, flowing. 😊
Because, as the theory goes, physical exertion increases them. And did you know that laughter does too? And even just thinking about laughing already causes endorphins to rise. That’s why it’s so important, because after all, it’s not work alone that a person lives.
That’s why we at Indevops often laugh. There is nothing more important than creating a place where you want to stay and want to work. And a place is first and foremost about people, and that’s why we make sure that we have a good mood no matter where we work. Even if there are more difficult moments, we talk them through and let off steam. Along with frank conversation, sports is very helpful in this case.
So don’t hesitate to let joy into the place where you spend 8 hours a day. Find your ways to bring it into your work and life.
And don’t forget to write me about it 😊
Much has been written about the Agile approach. Also, for me it was previously more of such a buzzword. However, since I touch it on a daily basis, I also want to add from myself on the topic.
When someone would ask me what Agile is, I would briefly answer “continuous change.” One of the first things I remembered when I joined INDEVOPS was: ” the only constant thing in life is change”. Once I realized this, nothing was the same anymore. 🤣 Requirements, purpose and expectations are constantly changing. With an agile approach to project execution, we can make modifications to projects to respond to them on an ongoing basis. “Well, there’s something to it,” I thought, “you have to get fond of changes” and get used to the fact that they will be an integral part of my life (actually, they always have been, but this taming somehow didn’t get to me 😉 ).
What does it look like?
When I work in a team on a task there is a lot of interaction all the time. And I’m not just talking about team meetings, but in particular, about notes in Easy Redmine, which makes this interaction quiet and focused (you may remember the screenshots from my post about effective teamwork). There, each of us can type what’s in our souls regarding the implementation of a given topic. Or even that today he feels bad and doesn’t have the head to work 🤣 (cool, we’re human and even my boss writes that 🤣). Interaction makes it possible to make changes, to verify that the changes we or others are making are going in the right direction, that the way, the effect and the approximation to the completion of the work is right.
Agile, of course, has other aspects that are important to me: self-realization, self-organization and self-discipline. Although I don’t know if it’s the Agile aspects or the very nature of working at Indevops. It is still surprising to me that I can do something on my own. That doesn’t mean I’m left to my own devices, what’s not, because there is interaction after all 🙂 I like the fact that I have a say in deciding the path I take in my task. And in addition, I can always ask my colleagues and peers for help and never hear the word no.
This is also what I equate Agile with, with collaboration. It gives me a great sense of support and belonging to our small community. It’s nice that each of us can express our opinions without fear of being judged, receiving constructive feedback. And, importantly, without pointing fingers, just so I could find the right way myself, however.
I have never had such a sense of empowerment in any place so far. Even if I have to abandon the path I’ve been walking, I can change the route and find the right path, into which I set off with courage. What matters in all of this is a pleasant path, which is friendlier when I know that change is nothing scary, because it can be mastered. And with the right support, all my roads in effect lead to a sprint 😊.
– “Agile May Day”, where we scored 20 hours of activity as a team
– “King of May”, where the best individual score counted
What can we say, we did a good job.
There were no funded prizes, but 75% of our small squad participated in the challenge, because the best trophy for us is our smiles and shared engagement.
Movement, is health, and health, is a guarantee of strength We all need it. So does positive motivation. Today at the meeting, our colleague said that it was thanks to the joint initiative that he engaged in physical activity during the May holiday. This is the best recommendation to make such challenges as many as possible. And we can’t forget about the beautiful weather, which gave us ideal conditions for exercise.
It has been known for a long time that a harmonious team, is the foundation of the functioning of a good company. Perfect understanding and playing to one goal is the basis of success, and we are the best at success.
More challenges lie ahead, as soon as they appear we will brag about them.
We congratulate all participants on the results and thank you for your engagement.
The experience and competence of our team has been awarded with the highest Principal Partner status at VMware in Cloud Management and Automation competency.
The Principal title confirms the skills, commitment and competence of our team in designing, implementing and managing VMware vRealize software in cloud computing environments.
Of all 7,882 VMware partners in the world, 38 companies in this specialization have the highest status, in Poland Indevops only. The achievement results from:
more than 3 years of implementation experience supported by confirmed recommendations of our customers,
5 VMware Certified Professional (VCP-CMA) certificates including 2 Advanced Professional (VCAP-CMA) certificates,
25 successful projects.
If you are starting the implementation or selection of a company that will provide you with professional and committed solutions to automate your IT services or provide you with analytics in IT monitoring, then choose Indevops 🙂
It was a very fruitful weekend with experts/coaches from all over Poland on such topics as: SCRUM, Turquoise management, Lean UX and VUCA – knowledge was wavering in the air. Almost the whole company took part in it: PM, programmers, consultants and “wizards”, thanks to which we are smarter by half, harmonized by 100%.
We know the power of being Indevops!
Although everyone is different and has their own piece of flooring in the company, we like to share knowledge, cooperate, be co-responsible and change with the world of VUCA.
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We all need it. So does positive motivation. Today at the meeting, our colleague said that it was thanks to the joint initiative that he engaged in physical activity during the May holiday. This is the best recommendation to make such challenges as many as possible. And we can’t forget about the beautiful weather, which gave us ideal conditions for exercise.
