Posts tagged with "Culture"

The team you would like to work with

Effective software development is an effort of the entire team and sometimes might be a real challenge. But what does this really mean? Successful cooperation with each other and with the client to deliver product efficiently are determined by several factors. We wrote about the Actify project and relations with the client here and here. It's high time to pass the voice to insiders: Tomek Wąsiński - Tech Lead, Artur Łągiewka - Backend Developer and Tomek Timoszyk - Project Manager share their thoughts and experience about working on wellbeing solution for the Netherland’ client.

10.03.2021, 10 min read: Katarzyna Leszczynska-Bohdan

How to make a cheerful and meaningful company's remote birthday celebration

This year we celebrate the 10th anniversary. In the first scenario, we planned a huge party with invitations for clients, partners, allies, and the team, of course. Pandemia and lockdown revised our bold plans for an extraordinary event. We’ve thought we could meet only with teammates, but even that option was too risky. Even in reality, before severe isolation, organizing an exciting event for +55 people that some of them live abroad, is challenging. We work every day on being aware of everyone's concerns, current restrictions, state of health, and well-being. We canceled the offline event with the shared decision and rethought how else we could celebrate this occasion.

14.12.2020, 8 min read: Katarzyna Leszczynska-Bohdan

CEOs insights - how to be prepared for superior business relations

Every company has its business life cycle and building long-term relations might have a bit different energy and course. We look for valuable insights from each meeting or event, and a lot of them are worth being shared.

26.07.2019, 6 min read: Katarzyna Leszczynska-Bhodan

Everyone's an Expert - do your job and stay sane

Some jobs, positions or work fields must deal with a specific problem - they can be very difficult and hard to master, but they rely more on soft skills than hard ones. There are many of these professions, but as an example, let’s take User Experience (UX) Designer. This person improves the interaction between user and product. Specifics of this job lead to one uncomfortable statement.

23.05.2019, 6 min read: Szymon Juskowiak

Mindfulness in business

Conferences like Slush, TechCrunch or WebSummit are great opportunities to get news from the industry, share experience and discuss case studies. One of the essential parts of such events is meeting people and listening to them, but not necessarily selling.

30.11.2018, 2 min read: Katarzyna Leszczyńska-Bohdan

DO OK supports programming workshop for women

Any reason to share knowledge and experience is great, especially when the know-how is transferred to beginners who can join a new industry. We believe the IT industry will significantly benefit from bringing in more women.

16.11.2018, 2 min read: Katarzyna Leszczyńska-Bohdan

Creating a JavaScript game can be fun!

When I got a job as a frontend developer in DO OK, I never thought that I’d create a game. Of course, I expected to learn a lot about React, Javascript or teamwork, but how could I know that a bit of free time and a crazy idea would be transformed into DOOKTOPUS?

22.08.2018, 8 min read: Mateusz Mitelski