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 in and

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

In a previous post, we discussed how high-performing teams can burn out. Team burnout is a recognized concept in the scientific literature on teams. While it shares similarities with individual burnout—people are exhausted and can no longer function correctly—it also contains a substantial subjective component of how stressful

“Can a high-performing team burn out?” recently appeared in a community meetup. It's an intriguing question because it starts from a favorable situation. If you’ve ever been part of a high-performing team, you know how exhilarating it can be. But paradoxically, it's also a place