“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”
Lao Tzu
While I am a social scientist at heart, I am a communicator who wants to enable people to make genuine structural change. That happens with leadership, collaborations and organisational culture.
In all my projects, I encourage an agile approach, a growth mindset and a culture of inclusion.
I strive to create a safe space for exploration. When we take the time and make the space for this attitude, the feeling of the process shifts.
Work flows, quality improves.
Beyond Burnout
My most recent project is a report called ‘Beyond Burnout: How I made my PhD and social research agile by adapting scrum values.’
It tells the stories and the journey of how I made agile work in my context, based on my collaboration with Nikitas Chronas Foteinakis.
You can download it here.
The report won the award for best experience report at the Agile Alliance XP2023 conference in Amsterdam.
You can also see the slidedeck of my XP2023 presentation, which was part of a fantastic session on storytelling, commitment and hooliganism. The audience was very familiar with agile, so the presentation is really just they key points.
Agile productivity for PhDs
This slidedeck shares how to use the agile mindset for productivity in solo projects. While I’ve iterated my approach many times since, it still captures the essence of my thinking.
