Erik de Bos

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Predictability, explained so your grandma would understand

Rethinking Team Performance: Why Over-Optimized Teams Fail to Deliver Real Performance

Rethinking Team Performance: Why Over-Optimized Teams Fail to Deliver Real Performance

Rethinking Team Performance: Why Over-Optimized Teams Fail to Deliver Real Performance How an underdog development team bypassed the efficiency trap to focus on what actually matters: effectiveness. read the article

James The Evil Stakeholder™ - from Idea to Product

James The Evil Stakeholder™ - from Idea to Product

James The Evil Stakeholder™ - from Idea to Product How a training exercise sparked a surprising entrepreneurial journey read the article

Changing the Way We Learn: From a Factory Mentality to a Growth Mindset

Changing the Way We Learn: From a Factory Mentality to a Growth Mindset

Changing the Way We Learn: From a Factory Mentality to a Growth Mindset How Critical Thinking and a Thirst for Knowledge Leads to a Life of Meaning and Professional Success read the article

The Lazy-First Framework™: Boredom, Brilliance, and Burnout-Free Productivity

The Lazy-First Framework™: Boredom, Brilliance, and Burnout-Free Productivity

The Lazy-First Framework™: Boredom, Brilliance, and Burnout-Free Productivity Discover the Counter-Intuitive Path to More Effective Teams and Effortless Productivity read the article

Why Metrics Fail in a Complex World

Why Metrics Fail in a Complex World

Why Metrics Fail in a Complex World How our obsession with metrics gets us into trouble read the article

Embracing Empiricism — From Randomness to Reason

Embracing Empiricism — From Randomness to Reason

Embracing Empiricism — From Randomness to Reason Cultivating a culture of critical thinking for effective and impactful outcomes read the article

Six Principles for Complexity

Six Principles for Complexity

Six Principles for Complexity A New Set of Principles for the Next Phase of Agile read the article

Using the Flow Channel to Measure Team Effectiveness

The Flow Channel — An Alternative Approach to Measuring Team Effectiveness

The Flow Channel — An Alternative Approach to Measuring Team Effectiveness

The Flow Channel — An Alternative Approach to Measuring Team Effectiveness How discovering the Flow Channel made me a better Scrum Master read the article

Deep Work and Agile

Deep Work and Agile

Deep Work and Agile How Deep Work fits with an Agile way of work read the article

Is this the Future of Recruitment?

Is this the Future of Recruitment?

Is this the Future of Recruitment? How recruitment is not about performance but about trust read the article

The Puzzle of Self-Organisation

The Puzzle of Self-Organisation

The Puzzle of Self-Organisation Self-organisation is something we strive for in Agile, but we should be very well aware that it is a delicate balance. read the article

Self-management in Scrum Teams

Self-management in Scrum Teams

Self-management in Scrum Teams An infographic to help your teams learn self-management read the article

The Power of Daydreaming

The Power of Daydreaming

The Power of Daydreaming or visualisation, to use a more acceptable term read the article

How a Digital Issue Tracking System affects Your Journey to Scrum

How a Digital Issue Tracking System affects Your Journey to Scrum

How a Digital Issue Tracking System affects Your Journey to Scrum Three examples of how our approach to Jira changed our way of working with Scrum. read the article

A Sprint Planning Template

A Sprint Planning Template

A Sprint Planning Template To help you run a more effective Sprint Planning driven by a realistic Sprint Goal read the article

Are Self-management and Synchronisation at odds in a Scrum Team?

Scaling is easy if you just let go!

Scaling is easy if you just let go!

Scaling is easy if you just let go! Scaling is about alignment, focus on that! Autonomy and scaling will evolve organically, suiting itself to the particulars of your organisation. read the article

Agile and Reclaiming the Joy Of Work

Agile and Reclaiming the Joy Of Work

Agile and Reclaiming the Joy Of Work Work should be fun, a hobby you happen to get paid for read the article

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