How to use Scrum with Kids and Family?

Using scrum techniques with kids and families is a wonderfull and easy thing to do.

Empower your children without losing your parental authority, through a collection of practical actions. Being able to adapt your family to modern life changes and pase. The methods are effective at teaching values and respect to others, and applies to public and home schooled children alike. And most of all , its so easy and so fun.

The Zeigarnik effect – Our brain nag us about unfinished work.

People can’t stop thinking about things that are not done. If they start something they’re more inclined to finish it. So when faced with a large task they may try to avoid starting, just because they don’t know how to start or where to start. We stop thinking about tasks once they are completed. This effect is widely used by marketing, sales, movies and it is also used with agile. Getting things done, dividing to small tasks, setting small goals, visibility, brakes (sprints) are all productivity related actions overcoming the Zeigarnik negative impact and start using it to our benefits.

Your thinking is largely the cause of your feelings and behaviours

It is not the event itself that causes the emotional reaction but the automatic thoughts that run through our head in immediate response to the event. (CBT) is a form of psychological therapy which aims to alter patterns of thought, behavior and emotion. The way we interpret reality dictate the way we feel, behave and react. How does it work?

Variations for the Agile Manifesto and Principles

Agile hold a minimum set of values and principles, following them, will allow taking the agile almost anywhere. Once we get the grip of that, we can implement agile, its tools and mindset almost for anything. Only fine tuning and modifications will be required. Now days we have few variations of the agile manifesto and values including for agile@ Scale, Agile@Home , Agile Marketing , Schools and many more. Here they are…

Scrum in School -eduScrum

Working with eduScrum  in schools means using Scrum to help teams of students learn more effectively. You’ll see self-organized teams of student work in sprints to learn subjects and evolve the learning process.  Students work independently and take responsibility for their own effort and that of their team members. They get more fun in the subject, work quicker through the curriculum and get better results.  Results from the agile way of working are improved quality of education, higher grades and motivated students. Here is how they do it : 

How to take agile into your personal life ?

Applying agile principles to the day to day personal and family activities as well as for kids, small business and more applications.

Using the power of agile techniques in children education

Agile holds some powerful (and fun) tools that help Kids organize; getting things done It provides a good ground for learning. So implementing Agile at home with our kids has valuable learning benefits as well. It helps them visualize their work and their progress. It also helps us empower our kids, help gain a sense of control, a feeling of success and many more goodies...

Using Agile With Youngsters

Using Agile with our younger kids is challenging, but yet simply possible. Here is a collection of posts showing the usage of agile with younger kids.

Agile/Lean - Fail Early, Fail Fast, Fail Often

"That day, the Wright brothers finally arrived at an ultimate success, but the path was filled with disappointing detours and a daunting string of failures. Innovation and failure go hand in hand. With technology and business cycles moving so quickly, companies no longer have the luxury of waiting a year or more to release a product into the marketplace. As a result, companies are embracing new techniques and approaches in an effort to compress their internal product development cycles to match the external cycles of the market.

Visual thinking - What is it?

Visual thinking, also called visual learning, is a proven method of organizing ideas graphically - with concept maps, mind maps and webs. Scientifically based research demonstrates that visual learning techniques improve memory, organization, critical thinking and planning.

How to deal with multitasking

"Does it seem like doing only one thing at a time isn't enough anymore? For multitasking to save you time, it has to be done with a little care and attention." http://www.wikihow.com/Multitask. Simply put, people can't multitask very well.

Agile@ Home : The agile family

Presenting the radical idea for healthy family communication and getting things done using agile. Implementing Agile at home with our kids and families has valuable learning benefits as well as empowerment, dealing with overwhelming day to day tasks and developing a healthy communication as a family. So can children and families benefit from Agile? Yes, they can! Remember: Our children go through childhood once , and we are the ones responsible for it.

Stories of Families Going Agile

Agile has Crept into our homes. Here are published stories of families becoming agile and adopting the powerful agile methodologies.