I believe creative minds build today’s business reality, all that
Ekaterina Kaleva
with care about people. Creative minds shape today’s business reality, always with care for people.
In the rise of AI, naturally formed teams emerge as self-contained micro-economies – a dynamic observed and mapped through years of hands-on transformations long before AI became mainstream. These insights form the foundation of Economy of Teams™ (EOT™), a practice-tested framework that uses AI to augment teams, scaling scattered experiments into reliable value.
Drawing from over 20 years in regulated industries (automotive, pharma, insurance) and data analytics, this builds on real-world experience: standardizing processes (aSPICE/CMMI, Agile, platform-of-platforms), leading engineering and IT organizations through R&D-to-operations shifts, and designing human-centric models that reduce complexity while fostering innovation.
Today, in the Economic Institute of Teams, the focus is AI-augmented EOT: fluid teams on cloud/data platforms structuring AI-as-Team-Infrastructure. Orchestration layers ensure human creativity thrives alongside compliance and reliability. Grounded in computer engineering and organizational expertise, and a PhD in literature, this addresses the ethical, human challenges metrics overlook when scaling organizations, products, and data.
Publications
- Five complex steps to simplicity
- To manage to lead or to lead the manage
- What does not work in Bulgaria?
- Success Formula to Manage IT In Bulgaria
- IT labour market in Bulgaria
- The Bulgarian culture
- TFSS: The Fancy Scrum story
- Economy of Teams™ Defined.
- Project Dashboard
- From Scrum to Kanban
- Seniority model for Management of Teams
- Business transformation strategy, Global Engineering Division
- Data management: from Spreadsheets to Workflow management system
- Standardized process tailoring for Prototype projects
- Optimization of the Improvement Program in a Start Up company
- Team Spirit
- Fear the project success
- Team and Society
- The Manager’s View

