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Amelia Walter-Dzikowska — International Cooperation in IT Teams (wroclove.rb 2023)

Amelia Walter-Dzikowska's wroclove.rb 2023 talk on working in international teams. Covers time-zone and schedule clashes, cultural value axes (individualism/collectivism, hierarchy/equality), native vs international English, indirect British phrasing, coconut vs peach cultures, abbreviations, the 'no hello' rule, and Nonviolent Communication — grounded in her personal experience as a Polish QA engineer working with French, American, Indian and other teams.

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description Conference speaker. Polish QA engineer. Biology graduate who moved into software testing via her passion for foreign languages (English a...
short_description Conference speaker. Polish QA engineer and wroclove.rb speaker focused on international team communication.
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description Talk at wroclove.rb 2023. Amelia Walter-Dzikowska's wroclove.rb 2023 talk. Opens with the question 'is your office a global village?' using the...
short_description Talk at wroclove.rb 2023. Talk on working effectively in international software teams — cultures, language, communication norms.
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description (empty) Cultural-values axis in Amelia Walter-Dzikowska's talk. European cultures prize equality and flat structures — you ta...
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description (empty) Cultural model Amelia Walter-Dzikowska cites in the Q&A. Coconut cultures (e.g. Polish, Scandinavian) are hard on the...
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short_description (empty) Is ChatGPT a reasonable solution for rephrasing blunt Polish messages for foreign programmers?
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short_description (empty) Which nations are commonly misjudged as direct or indirect?

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