Leverage of Space

You must have heard about the invisible gorilla experiment. If not, you can learn more here or actually there is another version of it that I like better, you can check that out here .  No matter which one you like/watch/read the main thing here is when you have to perform a task (especially if that is a challenging one), without realizing it, your attention narrows and blocks out other things. So, often, you literally can't see even a huge, hairy gorilla that appears directly in front of you. 😀 That effect is called "inattentional blindness". You only see what you expect to see. I was first introduced this experiment in the context of modeling. With any models you are working with, you need to work hard not to only see what you expect to see but way more beyond that.  The other day I needed to schedule a "trip" to the customer service of an internet/phone provider (I needed to arrange internet subscription for someone in my family). But a lot was g...

As I have been in Business Analyst (BA) and Product Owner (PO) positions for a long while, customer focus and feedbacks were always quite important for me. I am working at a company where we, POs can't really talk directly to clients (our end users) - or just once in a while. But luckily there are people at the company whose profession is talking to clients. But we POs obviously always want to be closer to clients, willing to be involved in client meetings as many times as possible, because that makes a lot of sense when it comes to implementing stuff based on client feedbacks. So we want to talk to clients directly, because we think we know the most about our product (as we are the owners of it, right?) so who could be more appropriate than us to talk to the client? Well.. Today a phone call changed my mind...  We have a weekend house and sometimes ago the pipes broke in the wall. We have insurance so I immediately logged this incident online. The insurance's onli...

We had one simple idea: to enjoy a relaxing coffee in our garden. I didn’t expect that I would need to use all of my Domain-Driven Design skills! We have been living in our house for half a year now, and a couple of weeks ago, when the weather was perfect, we had a "crazy" idea: why not sit outside and have our coffee in the terrace? Sounds reasonable, right? Little did we realize the implementation was a bit more complex than it sounded. Because in order to sit there and enjoy the sunshine (with the coffee of course), we realized we needed to take all the stuff away from the terrace to have enough space there for the garden furniture.  Oh, wait! We had no proper furniture that time. And we also had no idea where to put the stuff from the terrace.  So first thing in the priority order was to buy a storage shed. Then it needed to be assembled. Then if that was done, we needed to pack everything that we wanted into the shed to free up space on the...

If I say  12 meter   what do people associate it with? They imagine it as a distance, but it is also a rating class for racing sailboats that are designed to the international rule. But since last week I also know that it can be a space where a mid-sized company's let's say "normally healthy business' story" can fit in 😉   Well, yes I finally managed to attend an EventStorming workshop. But this workshop wasn't just any  EventStorming workshop. This was  The  EventStorming Workshop This was a Master Class for  EventStorming enthusiasts directly from the Master, the Inventor: Alberto Brandolini .  Even better this was the first  EventStorming Master Class in Italy that was held in English. Yeah actually otherwise it wouldn't have been too useful for me to attend,right?  And it is not just Alberto (sorry, Alberto) who makes the training awesome, but Enrico who  always tries his best to arrange everything that...

This is the third morning I wake up very early because our neighbors are very loud and they are continuously arguing on something. 😠 I couldn't fall asleep again so I was thinking. Was thinking about why I can hear every single word they are yelling at each other.  I had bunch of thoughts then, a mini root cause analysis in my mind.  Why I am hearing these stuff?  W hy isn't there good enough insulation in the house?  W hy the hell I cannot make the constructor change this?  Well, w hy the hell we hadn't discussed it with them in advance, when it would have been easier to amend anything?? Actually...why the hell they don't care/don't want to know these stuff?  And that's the point! They don't want to know. Constructors never want to learn from their mistakes. Or they don't dare to learn?... The "normal" way of a house handover is if the constructors manage to hand it over and if the buyer doesn't notice the deficienc...

Let me share an experience from real life where I realized why it is important to focus on the problem and not the solution.. We bought a house recently, but this story is from the time right before we bought it. Probably most of you've already gone through the process of applying to a bank loan in your lives. There is a point at which bank comes and check your house and estimate its value. The amount you can get from the bank depends on this estimated value.  But let me just start at the beginning… We were in a DIY shop looking around for the latest things our builder had asked us to buy. Anyways. Steve told me that we also needed to buy a house number. I was like ok let's look at the house numbers in the proper aisle of the store.  We went there and after a while we managed to pick the numbers and we realized we needed a slash sign as well. So, only three numbers and a slash; however as you probably know you can never find more than three things that match ...