The Mental State of Flow : Measuring Team Effectiveness

Have you ever done something where you felt like you were in a higher state of awareness, your focus sharp like a knife, and time seemed to stand still? Imagine you could harness that same feeling in your work, working with your Scrum Team? Even cooler, imagine you could measure that feeling, and use it to guide you in just about all the organizational choices you make at work?

That feeling is the Mental State of Flow. Using insights from my work as an ecologist I will show you how over millions of years we humans have evolved an instinctive feeling for Flow, as a way to deal with complexity.

We will discuss how this makes Flow the perfect way to measure project team effectiveness, and an effective alternative for our struggles with dashboards, assessments, metrics and the like. And how Flow is an example of the new kind of tools we need in Agile to make sense of complexity and find our way as change agents.

Using examples from my experience as a change agent, I will show you how to use Flow at all levels of the organization, providing you with a step-by-step approach to start using Flow in your work, and a sense-making matrix to help you make choices using Flow.

Video producer: https://agileindia.org