How I used the Liberating Structure “Ecocycle Planning” to determine what to start, stop, and change in the new year — Roughly every 6 months, I use the Liberating Structure “Ecocycle Planning” to reflect on what to start, stop, and change. Although I also include things I do in my personal life, I’ll focus this article on work-related activities. The purpose of Ecocycle Planning is to analyze the full portfolio of…

Ten ideas, practices, and strategies to use Liberating Structures frequently, effectively, and creatively — Chances are, that when you read this blog post, you’ve had a taste of Liberating Structures. Maybe you experienced Liberating Structures during an Immersion Workshop, a public meetup, or a community event. Maybe a colleague tried a structure during a business meeting. Or even better, you joined a birthday party…

Use Ecocycle Planning to make visible how you use Liberating Structures, and decide what to start, stop, or change — Use Liberating Structures to improve your usage of Liberating Structures. That makes sense, right? I can also imagine that this sounds vague, abstract, and fluffy. In this blog post, I’ll give you one very specific example. It’s something I started doing when I learned Liberating Structures myself, and it helped…

Three simple retrospective formats based on the Liberating Structures “Conversation Cafe”, “Troika Consulting”, and “Discovery & Action Dialogue” — 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. Team morale indicates how willing members are to push on in the face of difficulties. Teams with high…

How the various ways of getting into a swimming pool are similar to how teams and organizations start with Scrum — When I started my journey as a Scrum Master about 12 years ago, I read many books about Scrum. Interestingly, one of the first books I also studied was “Extreme Programming Explained” by Kent Beck. Although I’m not a highly technical guy, I have always worked closely with software development…

Reflections and findings triggered by the experience interview with Daniel Vacanti — Some time ago, we hosted an experience interview with Daniel Vacanti. Daniel is the co-founder of ProKanban.org, a venture conceived of, by, and for the Kanban community. Its mission is to support all Kanban practitioners (new or old) by providing a safe and inclusive forum to learn about Kanban. He…

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, we show how Liberating Structures can be used with Scrum. Open Space Technology is probably the…

Share successes from the past, create transparency about the present and identify improvements for the nearby future — 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. Christiaan Verwijs and I created the Scrum Team Survey to support Scrum and other Agile teams in their…

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, we show how Liberating Structures can be used with Scrum. The purpose of Liberating Structures is…