Ewa Koprowska
Ewa Koprowska is an experienced agile leader with over 25 years in the technology industry, having supported organizations such as PZU, ING, Shell, and Bupa. She has held diverse roles, including actuarial developer, analyst, project manager, Scrum Master, Product Owner and Global Agile Coaching Services Manager, giving her a broad perspective on product development, governance, and scaling agility.
Currently, Ewa is a Engineering Operations Manager at SmartRecruiters, where she helps teams and leaders navigate complexity and drive meaningful change. She is passionate about balancing governance with agility and focused on embracing fluidity in wider organization.
Ewa is a strong advocate for clarity, transparency, and continuous improvement. She actively contributes to the agile community by sharing her knowledge and experience through lectures, workshops, and mentoring.
Workshop—From rigid stability to fluid ability. Regrouping in practice.
At SmartRecruiters, we have been experimenting for the past two years with regrouping within structural boundaries as a deliberate operating mechanism. This session is based on our experiences with regrouping and explores how and when to intentionally reorganize people around work, without collapsing into chaos or eroding accountability.
Regrouping will happen. The real question is whether it happens reactively or by design, as a disruption, or as a conscious element of organizational architecture.
Teams form, dissolve, merge, split, and evolve in response to learning, architecture, and strategy. Yet dynamic reteaming carries real costs: increased cognitive load, social reset, temporary productivity dips, weakened domain memory, and identity disruption. Stability is not free, but neither is fluidity.
In this session, we will:
- Clarify terminology (regrouping vs. reteaming vs. reorganization),
- Share patterns and lessons learned from our two-year experience,
- Surface trade-offs we encountered between adaptability and system coherence.
Then we will go through the regrouping process, discussing "why, what, and how" of every step. Finally, we will deep-dive into a structured discussion of the 5 core benefits and 5 core costs of the regrouping.
The intent of this session is not to advocate for constant fluidity nor rigid stability. Instead, we aim to elevate regrouping from an ad hoc managerial reaction to an explicit organization design decision. It will be a structured exploration among practitioners navigating the trade-offs between stability and adaptability in real systems.
If your organization experiences teams that "form, dissolve, merge, split, and evolve" and you want to manage that process by design rather than by disruption, this conversation is for you.
Ewa will do the workshop together with Agata Śladowska.