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In this week\\u2019s episode, Dan Neumann is excited to be joined by someone outside of AgileThought, Yvonne Marcus! Yvonne specializes in teaching home management (which is the process of effectively running a household) with an agile twist. Her mission is to help parents develop flexible home management solutions using agile principles to leave them with more time for themselves, quality family time, less money spent, and a more productive week.

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Yvonne Marcus shares how you can begin to implement agile into your home with her invaluable tips and tricks in this episode! She shares exactly how you can start bringing the agile process into your home, how to introduce your family to it, and actionable tips to take in getting started. Yvonne truly illustrates how applying agile principles can take your family from surviving to thriving!

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Key Takeaways

What is home management?

Everything you have to do in your house to make it run (doing the dishes, cooking dinner, taking care of your kids, etc.)

The process of effectively running a household

Ways to apply agile to home management:

You can use Scrum boards at home for your kids so they know what they need to do for the day (and lessen their dependency on parents to guide them through every step)

The kids can contribute to the backlog during their family sprint meetings (ask your kids: \\u201cWhat needs to be done in the next two weeks?\\u201d or \\u201cWhat do you want to do in the next two weeks?\\u201d)

Families can also discuss behavioral problems at the sprint meetings and discuss what an appropriate consequence could be for said behaviors by involving them in the process (similar to a team working agreement)

Yvonne\\u2019s tips for bringing Agility into your home:

Yvonne uses DAKboard for their sprint goal board where she keeps track of their daily schedule, count downs to important events, sprint goals, etc.

She recommends whiteboarding and putting everything either in a Google Sheet or using an application that creates to-do lists (such as Microsoft To-Do)

Do not ask anyone in your family to start using a new piece of software that they do not already use (because if they\\u2019re not used to it they will not use it and you\\u2019ll fail with your first implementation of trying to run agile at your house!)

You can use Scrum, Agile, Kanban, etc. \\u2014 whatever works best for your home!

Do your daily Scrum first thing in the morning

An important question to ask yourself is: \\u201cHow much time do I need to take care of myself today?\\u201d (Because if you don\\u2019t set aside self-care time at the very beginning of the day you will always find something in your home that is more important that needs to be done and you\\u2019ll forget about it)

Create a sustainable pace with the principles behind the Agile Manifesto (it\\u2019s not just about the work)
Stick with it even if it\\u2019s not perfect the first few times

Create a continuous feedback loop by asking your family what went well that week, what didn\\u2019t work, modifying, and implementing changes

Ask yourself: \\u201cWhat is the simplest thing you can do to create a solution for the start?\\u201d Don\\u2019t go over the top; just start with what you have

Take the four tendencies quiz (it can be helpful to understand who is on the \\u201cteam\\u201d and how to communicate in a way that will be most receptive for them)

Where Yvonne recommends getting started with implementing the Agile process in your home:

Start with the daily standup (because being able to reconfigure time so that everyone\\u2019s time is valued will be one of the most eye-opening spots)

If you start with the daily standup you\\u2019ll see the most immediate success

Everyone should provide input so that everyone knows they have a weight in what is going on inside the home

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Mentioned in this Episode:

Yvonne Marcus

\\u201cAgile programming \\u2014 for your family\\u201d Bruce Feiler\\u2019s TEDTalk

The Secrets of Happy Families:\\xa0 Improve Your Mornings, Tell Your Family History, Fight Smarter, Go Out and Play, and Much More, by Bruce Feiler

DAKboard

Microsoft To Do

Whiteboarding

Yvonne Marcus\\u2019 Podcast: Your Agile Home

Airtable

ClickUp
Trello

iCalendar
Gretchen Rubin \\u2014 The Four Tendencies Quiz

Ethical Hacking Courses on Udemy

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