More Than a Canvas Today I want to consider the unfairly forgotten tool Learning Canvas. It is one of those canvases which are not just templates to write down the information, but a facilitation guide. Originally designed to get workers...
- 02 Dec 25
- 4 Min Read
When you work as an Agile Coach or Scrum Master, you spend much of your time helping others find clarity—their purpose, their rhythm, their better way of working. But sometimes you need that space yourself. In September, I found it...
- 11 Nov 25
- 5 Min Read
Facilitation is sometimes seen as simply “leading a meeting” or “hosting a discussion,” but during a recent facilitation skills course, my participants reinforced just how much real skill is involved, and how those can be learned and honed with practice....
- 09 Sep 25
- 2 Min Read
Long-lived Scrum teams very often meet with the situation when they resolve all problems that they can. In this case, the team could be frustrated about the usefulness of Sprint Retrospectives because these don’t help and just waste time. When...
- 02 Sep 25
- 6 Min Read
My expectation to be perfect was ruining my video, but authenticity saved it 🎥 In the speaker group for Women in Agile Europe, we were all asked to send in a short promo video for our talks. One of the...
- 26 Aug 25
- 2 Min Read
Designing for momentum When I volunteered for the Online Scrum Master Summit 2025 as part of the marketing and creative team, I didn’t just join a campaign, I approached it like I would any product. Each initiative, each visual, message,...
- 19 Aug 25
- 4 Min Read
🔥𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬. 𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐈’𝐦 𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐝. 𝐃𝐎 𝐈𝐓 𝐒𝐂𝐀𝐑𝐄𝐃!🔥 𝐏𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬: you’re sitting at a conference, around 100 people in the room. Suddenly someone says: 👉 ‘If you’ve never done live graphic recording and want to try –...
- 29 Jul 25
- 2 Min Read
(and What Scrum Masters Can Do About It) Using the Competing Values Framework to understand the unseen tensions we’re caught in At the Online Scrum Master Summit 2025, I started my talk with a vulnerable story and a simple but...
- 22 Jul 25
- 4 Min Read
I had the pleasure of joining the International Product Owner Day on May 15th, hosted by Achmea, It Circle, and Rabobank at the Rabobank headquarters in Utrecht. And I have to say: it was one of those afternoons where everything...
- 03 Jun 25
- 3 Min Read
Embracing Neurodivergent Strenghts 🔥 Growing up neurodivergent came with its own set of challenges, and one of the hardest was struggling with reading comprehension when asked to read out loud. Teachers would ask us to read passages and then answer...
- 19 Feb 25
- 3 Min Read
