Online meetups: to love ❤️ or to hate 😠? I’ve asked myself this question many times. With the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, I also started running online meetups. My initial enthusiasm slowly turned into frustration. Too such an extend that I stopped hosting them. For a couple of months…

Initially, my intention was to write a super positive post about a milestone Christiaan Verwijs and I achieved yesterday. We welcomed the 30,000th user of the Agile/ Scrum Team Survey! We’ve got enough reasons to be positive: 🎉 We don’t make any losses and have zero debt 🎉 MRR (monthly recurring revenue)…

“The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Piss You Off” — Gloria Steinem This quote already hit home a couple of times in my professional life. The most vivid memory is when I traveled to Boston 🇺🇸 to provide a PSM II class at Scrum.org. …

Practical advice on how to facilitate your first session with Liberating Structures, after you’ve learned the basics — So, you’ve learned the basics of Liberating Structures and are excited to give it a try! But where & how to start? 🤷‍♀ Here’s what I often recommend. The order is random, and the list probably isn’t complete. It’s what came to mind first. 1️⃣ Check your calendar 📅 …

How we used Strategy Knotworking to explore how the world of education should evolve, as the world itself evolves — Last June, Joanne Wolfert — Drost, Denise Fleck, Matthieu Tournemire, and I facilitated a public 3-hour Strategy Knotworking (SK) workshop in Amsterdam. During the workshop, we explored the 6 core questions of SK, to identify creative solutions for the tough challenges the world of education faces. We used SK, to…

Create a shared understanding, set clear expectations, and set a solid foundation for successful usage of the tool — This article is also available as a free PDF on our webshop. It’s a nicely styled paper and allows you to easily share it with others. You can download the PDF here. Based on the latest scientific research, the Agile/Scrum Team Survey is a pioneering tool to help teams improve…

Why I don’t care that much about the Scrum roles, events, and artifacts, and what I do care about instead — Confession: I don’t care about Scrum… I don’t even care about the Scrum Master, Product Owner, and Scrum teams. I don’t care about the Scrum events or the various artifacts. 😲 As a result, I rarely engage in online discussions about the Scrum framework. Debates focused on responsibilities, rules, timeboxes…

A community-driven initiative to explore a wide variety of topics and to share thoughts, challenges, and ideas for action — Liberating Structures are a collection of interaction patterns that allow you to unleash and involve everyone in a group — from extroverted to introverted and from leaders to followers. In this series of posts, you can find inspiration on how to use them within your team, organization, or community.

Thoughts and ideas on how to prevent, resolve, or simply accept it — With the Scrum Team Survey, teams can diagnose themselves with a scientifically validated approach, inspect the results together, and improve with evidence-based feedback. Every team member can complete the survey anonymously. The aggregated results are shown in one team report. This post isn’t intended as a promotion, our survey is…