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Outcome Columinity Client Day

Outcome Columinity Client Day

On July 1st, we hosted the first edition of the "Columinity Client Day", bringing together clients to share experiences, exchange ideas, and connect with one another. With around 30 participants from 18 different organizations, it was also a great opportunity to gather feedback. In this article, we’ll

Reflexive AI: Join our action research initiative on human-centered AI

Reflexive AI: Join our action research initiative on human-centered AI

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is here to stay. Many companies are at different stages of their exploratory journey into what AI can offer them. While research shows it can increase productivity and efficiency, it is also clear that it can harm trust, break motivation and increase exit intentions (Sadeghi, 2025; Ateeq

Closing The Science-Practice Gap With Columinity

Closing The Science-Practice Gap With Columinity

What makes a team effective? How does the mindset of a team shape its effectiveness? Out of the hundreds of factors that influence team effectiveness, which are most important to invest in? If you work with teams as a coach, HR professional or as a team member, you likely have

Introducing The Teaming Success Model

Introducing The Teaming Success Model

This post introduces our new "Teaming Success Model". You can use our free version to evaluate your team, or use our paid version to evaluate teams in your organizations. Try it at teaming.columinity.com. Teamwork and teams have been the staple of how work is done in

Is 2026 The Year Your Team Works Better Than Ever?

Is 2026 The Year Your Team Works Better Than Ever?

The start of a new year is always a moment for new ambitions, plans, and goals. Will 2026 be the year your teams defy the odds? Our team at Columinity is happy to help you fulfil those ambitions. Offer: Try Columinity With 3 Teams With our New Year promotion, you

Hard Metrics Tell You What, Human Factors Tell You Why

Hard Metrics Tell You What, Human Factors Tell You Why

What is the best way to measure the health of a team, or an entire organization? Do you only look at so-called hard metrics, like productivity, turnover, and financial results? Or are you also concerned with so-called soft metrics that focus on what people experience, feel and see

Spotify Squad Health Check vs Columinity

Spotify Squad Health Check vs Columinity

When we developed Columinity, we deliberately avoided doing competitor research. We didn’t want to be influenced. And honestly, we’ve always found those comparison tables on websites a bit dull and outdated. Still, almost every week, I run into organizations that use the Spotify Squad Health Check and ask

How A Team-Level Agile Mindset Shapes Team Effectiveness

How A Team-Level Agile Mindset Shapes Team Effectiveness

What makes Agile Teams effective? Is it the presence of roles like Scrum Masters and Product Owners? Is it the use of concepts such as Product Backlogs or Sprints? Or it something deeper, less tangible? In this post, we share preliminary findings from an ongoing research project into Agile Mindset

How To Customize Scans With Columinity

How To Customize Scans With Columinity

With Columinity, you can measure over 50 factors that contribute to team effectiveness. You can easily customize our surveys to measure those most relevant to you. This ensures that the time people spend on filling in surveys is used most effectively. In this post, we show you how. How To

Why You Shouldn't "Measure All The Things"

Why You Shouldn't "Measure All The Things"

With Columinity, you can measure over 50 different factors in and around teams across 3 scientific models, ranging from team conflict to social cohesion and from release frequency to value focus. That provides a ton of potential insights, and it is only natural that it leads some users to wonder,

Why We Focus On Effectiveness, Not Productivity

Why We Focus On Effectiveness, Not Productivity

Teams that work hard and produce lots of outcomes are not necessarily effective. What is the value of this productivity when internal release cycles are so slow that it takes months to reach actual customers? What is the value of this productivity when the quality of what teams produce dissatisfies

How To Make A Business Case For Columinity

How To Make A Business Case For Columinity

While teams easily recognize the power of Columinity to help them improve, it is often harder to sell it to management. We offer three tips to help convince management.

Better Conversations, Better Teams

Better Conversations, Better Teams

Numbers tell only part of the story; the real breakthroughs happen in the conversations around them.

Make Your Retrospectives More Impactful

Make Your Retrospectives More Impactful

Use Action Research with Columinity to have more meaningful and impactful retrospectives.

How Often Should We Use Columinity?

How Often Should We Use Columinity?

Practical recommendations on how often Columinity should be used.

Kickoff Workshop at Enexis

Kickoff Workshop at Enexis

A practical description of the 1-day Columinity kickoff workshop we facilitated at Enexis.

Create Effective Teams With Data-Informed Team Journeys

Create Effective Teams With Data-Informed Team Journeys

How our partner Tribers supports teams and organizations with team journeys - a structured, data-informed approach to improve team effectiveness.

What Coaches Say About Columinity

What Coaches Say About Columinity

Columinity improves team and organizational effectiveness through data-informed decisions and scientific insights. You can diagnose one or many teams, receive evidence-based feedback, and resolve broader organizational issues. It helps to make decisions based on quantitative and qualitative data and insights from research, instead of only on gut feeling,

What Leaders Say About Columinity

What Leaders Say About Columinity

Insights from leaders who used Columinity to improve team and organizational effectiveness.

Workshop: Discover Columinity

Workshop: Discover Columinity

An ideal opportunity to learn how Columinity triggers organizational change with data-informed decisions based on scientific insights.

Workshop: Action Research with Columinity

Workshop: Action Research with Columinity

A hands-on one-day workshop to use a collaborative, data-informed approach for continuous improvement and meaningful systemic change.

Workshop: Kickoff Columinity

Workshop: Kickoff Columinity

A practical description of a 1-day workshop to kickstart your journey with Columinity in the best way possible!

How To Reduce Costs With Columinity

How To Reduce Costs With Columinity

When considering a paid plan, customers often ask, "How will using Columinity help us reduce costs?" It’s a fair question. Even though the cost is only €240 per team per year, organizations want to ensure they see actual returns on their investment. This post will help you

How To Practice Action Research With Columinity

How To Practice Action Research With Columinity

Columinity is based on a philosophy called Action Research. Its guiding principles have informed the design and implementation of most of our features. Action Research is a systematic approach to problem-solving that involves scientists and practitioners collaborating to collect and analyze data, identify improvements, and implement them iteratively. Initially

Does Columinity Work For My Type Of Team?

Does Columinity Work For My Type Of Team?

Can teams that don't develop software use Columinity? YES! Can Columinity be used by teams that don't use Agile or Scrum? YES! Can Columinity be used for teams where people don't always work together? YES! In this post, we explain how to leverage the