Erik de Bos
Below, please find all my articles - just click the title to open it.
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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
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
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
Why Metrics Fail in a Complex World
Why Metrics Fail in a Complex World
How our obsession with metrics gets us into trouble
Embracing Empiricism — From Randomness to Reason
Embracing Empiricism — From Randomness to Reason
Cultivating a culture of critical thinking for effective and impactful outcomes
Six Principles for Complexity
Six Principles for Complexity
A New Set of Principles for the Next Phase of Agile
Using the Flow Channel to Measure Team Effectiveness
Using the Flow Channel to Measure Team Effectiveness
Turning the theory into practice
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
Deep Work and Agile
Deep Work and Agile
How Deep Work fits with an Agile way of work
Is this the Future of Recruitment?
Is this the Future of Recruitment?
How recruitment is not about performance but about trust
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.
Self-management in Scrum Teams
Self-management in Scrum Teams
An infographic to help your teams learn self-management
The Power of Daydreaming
The Power of Daydreaming
or visualisation, to use a more acceptable term
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.
A Sprint Planning Template
A Sprint Planning Template
To help you run a more effective Sprint Planning driven by a realistic Sprint Goal
Are Self-management and Synchronisation at odds in a Scrum Team?
Are Self-management and Synchronisation at odds in a Scrum Team?
As with most things in Agile, it depends.
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.
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
The Challenge of Backlog Refinement
The Challenge of Backlog Refinement
And how to use it more effectively
The Challenge of Cultural Differences
The Challenge of Cultural Differences
Or, the complexities of the rest room
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