In my opinion the best known example of a company which lets their employees work on “personal” projects, is Google. This “Internet juggernaut”, encourages its engineers to take 20 percent of their time to work on a personal project, which is company-related and is of personal interest.
Another great event just behind us. On the 27th March we met in Rybnik to discover the best way to build a collaborative team. This time we had an opportunity to participate in workshops focused on soft skills development and listen to some amazing lightning talks.
The idea of the digital changing things sounds hardly impressive for both professionals and common users of the countless number of electronic devices, gadgets and applications which have actually become part and parcel of our lives and are simply here to stay.
The Open Source Days (DWO) are an open conference for the enthusiasts of open source software as well as for those interested in the practical application of open source software in business.
This time the Mikstuira.IT event was slightly different as we wanted to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the birth of Ruby – an object-oriented scripting language created in 1993 by Yukihiro Matsumoto (Matz for short).
On the 30th of January we took part in Sektor 3.0 – a conference organized by the Polish-American Freedom Foundation and the Information Society Development Foundation at the Silesian University of Technology in Gliwice.
“Impact mapping is a variant of the InUse effect mapping method, introduced by Mijo Balic and Ingrid Domingues (Ottersten), combined with impact maps for training organisations invented by Robert O. Brinkerhoff, the feature injection ideas of Chris Matts and the measurability and iterative delivery ideas by Tom Gilb”.
The amazing seven or so hours of Mikstura.IT are just behind us. Two workshops, great lightning talks and socializing in the heart of Rybnik allowed the participants to take part in the unique mixture of knowledge building and fun.
