Category: Remote Collaboration

Conference talk
23 October 2020 / Engaging Workshops & Meetings / Mark Uijen de Kleijn
Team self-design remotely & improving post-covid times facilitation

At the LeSS Conference 2020, Georgiy Zhytar (from our customer Y Soft) and I did a talk on the remote self-designing team workshop we did at Y Soft. In this talk, we shared what we did, learnings we had and which parts to re-use after covid-19 to combine the best of both remote and on-site worlds. There are a lot of practical facilitation tips in...

18 September 2020 / Engaging Workshops & Meetings
Exploring new forms of collaboration – an online workshop format

Defining your new collaboration environment together “A transition is needed from workplace to meeting place in our offices.” This is the most important result of a workshop on the “new collaboration environment” that Co-Learning has facilitated at the invitation of the Dutch Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). In this blog we share more about this workshop and its results. [siteorigin_widget class="SiteOrigin_Widget_Image_Widget"][/siteorigin_widget] At the end of...

17 September 2020 / Agile & Scrum
Case Study: Y Soft LeSS adoption, long term experience report by Y Soft themselves

Disclaimer: this is re-sharing what Y Soft has shared on their platform earlier and has been distributed through means of social media. It is mentioned in their article that sharing is caring and in that sense we want to contribute in their quest to sharing their story to the world. They share a story of being 1,5 years into a LeSS adoption as an ongoing...

11 June 2020 / Agile & Scrum
A full remote highly collaborative teams self-design workshop with 80+ people? Yes!

This Spring, one of our customers wanted to change the distribution of people in the teams that work to develop their main product.* To do this, we were planning to have a large workshop to do a redesign of the current team layout by teams themselves. Taking into account certain constraints of course. After the workshops, in their next Sprint, the teams would work in...

10 April 2020 / Remote Collaboration
Supporting a courageous elementary school teacher

- We blurred out the children for their privacy and protection - In times of crisis we find it important to help others in need of new knowledge and experiences, using the expert capabilities we have. These days it became obvious that many crucial organizations around us were/are not prepared for a digital approach. Elementary schools are definitely one of those. Thanks to a courageous...

24 March 2020 / Remote Collaboration
How VPN constrained remote working will lead to depressions and how to fix it

Today many organisations are fighting the limits of their VPN infrastructure and send out quick fixes to people, block more outside websites and applications and more of this. A necessary action to guarantee connections to all in the short run but not something to keep for the long haul. No video allowed, limited audio allowed, only connect with others for work related meetings, no insights...