Savannah Rayat - Enhancing your life with Personal Agility

Published: June 6, 2017, 3:03 p.m.

During the 2017 Heart of Agile Conference in Pittsburgh, Savannah Rayat gave a presentation called \u201cEnhancing your life with Personal Agility\u201d. During the session she explained how she has applied some basic Agile practices from Scrum and Kanban to refine and focus her approach to life, deciding what is most important to her, and managing teams. Savannah has also applied Agile in other non-IT areas. During the interview, we talk about some of the Scrum practices she has applied in working with her team of Realtors. \n\nShow Notes\n00:10 - Interview Begins\n00:52 - Background on Savannah\n01:42 - How Day-Trading fits in with being a Realtor/IT Professional\n02:15 - How Savannah defines Personal Agility\n04:44 - Savannah\u2019s approach to Personal Kanban and her issue with deadlines\n05:31 - The important of setting and maintaining WIP Limits\n07:06 - Reducing your WIP to 3-4 \n10:00 - Preventing the backlash of cutting stuff our of your life\n12:15 - Having affection for your interests\n12:42 - Deciding what you can live without\n14:29 - Long term and short term road mapping\n15:48 - Savannah\u2019s Day to Day practice of Agile\n18:50 - The need for slack\n21:35 - The benefits of self-reflection and coping with the guilt of doing unplanned stuff\n23:16 - Making the time for Personal Kanban\n24:19 - Accountability Partners\n25:33 - How to get started with using Personal Agility\n27:44 - How Savannah uses Scrum to support collaboration on her Real Estate team\n32:38 - Getting in touch with Savannah\n34:39 - Interview Ends\n\nContacting Savannah \non LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/savannah-rayat-8942b8120/\non Twitter: https://twitter.com/SavannahRayat\nSavannah\u2019s Realty site: http://rayatrealtygroup.com\nSavannah\u2019s Heart of Agile 2017 http://heartofagile.com/Session/enhancing-your-life-with-personal-agility/