050: Agile Household with Yvonne Marcus

Published: Aug. 5, 2020, 9 a.m.

Parent Driven Development Episode 050: Agile Household (https://yvonnemarcus.kartra.com/page/xt271) with Yvonne Marcus (http://www.yvonnemarcus.com/) Yvonne is a home system strategist, mom of two, lover of Girl Scout cookies, cake, craving song parodies and getting outdoors with the family. She is on a mission to revolutionize everyones view of #MomLife. She is the creator of your Agile Home, a four-week course that looks to get your family together, feel like a valued member of the team, instilling autonomy and having fun! 00:50 Welcome, Yvonne Marcus (https://twitter.com/agileyvonne) Background in TV production How Agile Home came about Bringing Agile into her home Establishing family values 07:10 When and how is Agile executed in Yvonne’s house? WFH, toddlers and setting values Run as SCRUM (https://amzn.to/3f8TYaW) The sprint process, and day-to-day process 10:40 Are the kids involved? Daily SCRUM board: white board (https://amzn.to/2BGMQVC) + Scrum board home toolset (https://amzn.to/2D96yJX) They participate in bi-weekly check in Dance party and breaks are essential 13:09 Accountability without the nagging Assignments to the person with the more strengths in that specific area 14:45 How do we get skeptical families on board? Start with the daily stand-up Start on your own, showcase success, then show those with doubts 18:50 Quarantine times Get rid of #MomGuilt ! 20:00 Genius / Fail moments Kwu’s children have both fallen to the ground from various chairs in the past week… #fail Chris Sexton and his wife didn't have any troubles with a PDD Twitter poll.. #win Arit creates a schedule for her son for his Zoom class and school work after realizing her son kept coming to her with every question #geniusfail Chris Arcand’s son is starting to say anything and everything he feels. Sassiness to come #fail Yvonne becomes the fun mom by dying her kids hair #genius Allison and her partner create space for “virtual travel” for her to prepare for GitHub’s satellite conference #genius ### How can I support the podcast? Please follow us @parentdrivendev (https://twitter.com/parentdrivendev) on Twitter or email us at panel@parentdrivendevelopment.com (mailto:panel@parentdrivendevelopment.com). Our website is at ParentDrivenDevelopment.com (https://parentdrivendevelopment.com). Support us via Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/parentdrivendev) and get access to our our Slack Community! *As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases. Panel Chris Sexton (https://twitter.com/crsexton) Allison McMillan (https://twitter.com/allie_p) KWu (https://twitter.com/kwugirl) Arit Amana (https://twitter.com/AritAmana) Chris Arcand (https://twitter.com/chrisarcand) Special Guest: Yvonne Marcus.