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Define Step-by-Step Elements for Bringing Meetings to Productive Endpoints with “Design…
Define Step-by-Step Elements for Bringing Meetings to Productive Endpoints with “Design…
Liberating Structures are a collection of interaction patterns that allow you to unleash and involve everyone in a group — from extroverted…
Christiaan Verwijs
May 23
Map Informal Connections and Strengthen the Network With Social Network Webbing
Map Informal Connections and Strengthen the Network With Social Network Webbing
Liberating Structures are a collection of interaction patterns that allow you to unleash and involve everyone in a group — from extroverted…
Christiaan Verwijs
Apr 18
Improve How Your Scrum Team Uses Metrics
Improve How Your Scrum Team Uses Metrics
4 Do-it-yourself workshops to improve how your team uses metrics and how to measure the things that really matter!
Zombie Scrum Resistance
Apr 12
Sort Challenges Based on Their Complexity with “Agreement-Certainty Matrix”
Sort Challenges Based on Their Complexity with “Agreement-Certainty Matrix”
And avoid underestimating how complex things are
Christiaan Verwijs
Apr 4
How to use Powerful Questions virtually?
How to use Powerful Questions virtually?
Ideas on how to use Powerful Questions virtually and help teams find their own solutions to persistent problems
Barry Overeem
Mar 15
3 Workshops To Get Started With Product- And Sprint Goals
3 Workshops To Get Started With Product- And Sprint Goals
Use the do-it-yourself workshops to improve how your Scrum Team uses Product- and Sprint Goals
Zombie Scrum Resistance
Mar 1
Celebrity Interview
Celebrity Interview
Reconnect the Experience of Leaders and Experts with People Closest to the Challenge at Hand
Christiaan Verwijs
Jan 25
Tap the Wisdom of the Whole Group in Rapid Cycles With “Wise Crowds”
Tap the Wisdom of the Whole Group in Rapid Cycles With “Wise Crowds”
Or how to develop helping behaviors with large groups and generate more idea flow.
Christiaan Verwijs
Dec 14, 2020
Improving the Daily Scrum with Liberating Structures
Improving the Daily Scrum with Liberating Structures
10 examples of how to use Liberating Structures during and around the Daily Scrum
Barry Overeem
Nov 30, 2020
Discover and Unleash Local Solutions to Chronic Problems with Discovery & Action Dialogue
Discover and Unleash Local Solutions to Chronic Problems with Discovery & Action Dialogue
How to use Discovery & Action Dialogue with Scrum Teams, other structures to combine it with and other useful tips.
Christiaan Verwijs
Nov 2, 2020
Liberators Network String #1: What Makes A Successful Team? (Virtual)
Liberators Network String #1: What Makes A Successful Team? (Virtual)
Start a new community, meetup, or initiative by investigating what makes teams successful and build psychological safety along the way
Christiaan Verwijs
Oct 26, 2020
In-Depth: What a Social Systems Perspective Teaches us About Change
In-Depth: What a Social Systems Perspective Teaches us About Change
How a social systems perspective on organizations and teams helps us understand many things a mechanical perspective does not.
Christiaan Verwijs
Aug 23, 2020
52 Challenging Cases for Scrum Practitioners
52 Challenging Cases for Scrum Practitioners
Put your understanding of the Scrum Framework to the test!
Barry Overeem
Aug 17, 2020
In-Depth: How Biases Easily Distort Our Beliefs (In The Workplace)
In-Depth: How Biases Easily Distort Our Beliefs (In The Workplace)
An overview of 8 biases, their underlying research and how to (hopefully) reduce their impact
Christiaan Verwijs
Aug 10, 2020
Practice Progressive Methods For Giving And Getting Helping With Helping Heuristics
Practice Progressive Methods For Giving And Getting Helping With Helping Heuristics
A Liberating Structure to offer help without jumping to your own solutions right away
Christiaan Verwijs
Jun 21, 2020
Why Liberating Structures Are Instruments For Self-Organization
Why Liberating Structures Are Instruments For Self-Organization
And five tips to encourage self-organization
Christiaan Verwijs
Jun 1, 2020
Experiments, Practices, and Strategies for being a Remote Scrum Master
Experiments, Practices, and Strategies for being a Remote Scrum Master
Inspiration for fulfilling the stances of a Scrum Master, remotely
Barry Overeem
May 4, 2020
Strategy Knotworking: A Vital Skill To Quickly Respond To Change
Strategy Knotworking: A Vital Skill To Quickly Respond To Change
How shared sense-making helps us deal with “Black Swans” in times of crisis
Christiaan Verwijs
Apr 5, 2020
How to use Troika Consulting Virtually
How to use Troika Consulting Virtually
A step-by-step guide to using this powerful Liberating Structures to give & get creative help in challenging times
Christiaan Verwijs
Apr 2, 2020
The Liberators — Moving Forward in a New and Uncertain World
The Liberators — Moving Forward in a New and Uncertain World
This article explains Strategy Knotworking and how we used it for The Liberators
Barry Overeem
Mar 30, 2020
Our 10 Tips to Have Productive and Engaging Virtual Meetings
Our 10 Tips to Have Productive and Engaging Virtual Meetings
How to prevent virtual meetings from turning into goat rodeos with many awkward silences
Christiaan Verwijs
Mar 23, 2020
Observe and record actual behaviors of users in the field with Simple Ethnography
Observe and record actual behaviors of users in the field with Simple Ethnography
Including examples of how to use Simple Ethnography with Scrum
Barry Overeem
Mar 2, 2020
Build Empathy and Understanding with ‘Heard, Seen, Respected’
Build Empathy and Understanding with ‘Heard, Seen, Respected’
A Liberating Structure to build understanding and empathy.
Christiaan Verwijs
Feb 17, 2020
Using Mad Tea to Engage the Neural Network of Groups
Using Mad Tea to Engage the Neural Network of Groups
Ignite a deeper set of reflections, ideas, and insights by inviting everyone in simultaneous conversations
Barry Overeem
Jan 27, 2020
Apply Systems Thinking in your work with the Liberating Structure ‘Panarchy’
Apply Systems Thinking in your work with the Liberating Structure ‘Panarchy’
Analyze the whole system and find opportunities for change with Panarchy
Christiaan Verwijs
Jan 20, 2020
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