My Personal Scrum help you get more done of what really matters. This is the story of how I came to create it, what makes it special, and an invitation to check it out. First presented at #ALE2016
6. What can I learn from Scrum?
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Day 2
Day n
…
Sprint
Vision
Retrospective
Product
Increment
Sprint Planning 1
Sprint Planning 2
Daily
Scrum
Daily
Scrum
Backlog Refinement
Refinement
Sprint Review Done?
Done!
7. What are the patterns of Scrum?
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Something
of Value
Inspect and Adapt
8. Can me, myself & I really fulfill all three
roles?
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9. Better to try now than to reflect forever…
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11. I asked my wife to be my Personal Scrum
Master
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12. We started meeting once per week …
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13. The best part is celebrating what’s done!
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14. My Personal Scrum is not
Software Development Scrum
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15. What is special about
My Personal Scrum?
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16. Could My Personal Scrum help couples
master the challenges of family life?
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17. Could My Personal Scrum help corporate
leaders be more effective?
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18. Could My Personal Scrum help introduce the
Agile mindset in traditional organizations?
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20. We are in private beta
- To join:
- http://tinyurl.com/PersonalScrumBeta
- To find out how it works:
- http://tinyurl.com/PersonalScrum-RC1
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Editor's Notes
Hello Everyone!
My name is Peter Stevens
As a Scrum Trainer, I try to inspire people to change their lives for the better.
I have a new “baby-” I call it “My Personal Scrum”
I’d like to share his story and maybe start a conversation about his future
This is my life.
Ron Jeffries reminds us that we all have the same amount of time.
The problem is having too much to do
I have been trying to resolve this dilemma.
Without much success
It’s not that I haven’t tried
I tried things which helped, but somehow did not solve the problem
Desktop Kanban left me with tickets all the way around my Notebook
Personal Kanban - well I did almost personal Kanban, because limited WIP didn't work for me
The problem was more the endless backlog
One day I read an article on Linked In
The secrets of highly effective people
Like Bill Gates or Warren Buffet
Yeah, I'd like to be like them, so I started looking for a better way
Manage the minutes, not the hours, So I planned my time carefully
That failed quickly
My estimates suck
Even after adjusting my estimates, I still cant maintain the pace.
I can barely plan a day in advance, much less a week.
I need something more flexible
I am a Scrum Trainer, so this seemed like a place to start
I had never really used Scrum at home, because it was too big
How do you scale it down?
Lately I focus more on the essential patterns
Maybe by starting there...?
Inspect and Adapt at regular intervals
Produce something of value… at regular intervals
A team solved the whole problem
one voice sets formulates the problem
and a coach helps everybody get better
I can do the work, so team: check
I understand the value of what I am doing, so Product Owner, check
Every Scrum Trainer will tell you, Product Owner and Scrum Master should not be the same person.
Can I be my own Scrum Master?
Hmm.
I decided to give it try!
I started thinking of my tasks more as goals
I put them into a trello board
I tried to review the board once per week
And plan my day each morning
After a few weeks, I realized
I am not good at being my own Scrum Master
It is very difficult to be in the thick of doing work
and stop, stand back and reflect.
So I needed another person…
My wife?
Some people were shall we say, skeptical of this idea?
Can your product owner really be your coach?
So for lack of a better alternative…
I explained the coaching stance & what's expected
and she agreed
After some bumps getting started, it worked quite well!
Every week we discussed:
What have we accomplished.
What’s important? What’s urgent?
What can I really expect to get done?
After a week, she said:
Wow, we have gotten stuff done that has been nagging us for month!
After two months she said:
"I feel like we have become a team”
So my priorities map become our priorities map
We still do Personal Scrum! With a smile!
You know, I am not really sure I should name it after Scrum.
Scrum was the inspiration.
But many people’s experience with Scrum is
shall we say, corporate?
This is a personal framework that relies on collaboration.
Yes, you can do all three roles
But could you be more effective
at doing things that really matter
with a little help your friends.
My personal Scrum has helped me connect with my family.
I did not expect my priorities map
to become our priorities map, but id did.
Where else could My Personal Scrum
help people get better at doing things that matter?
Being a manager is lonely job
The more successful you are, the harder it is to ask for help.
What if you could have a weekly call
with your trustworthy Personal Scrum Master
to help you focus on what really matters?
Imagine: your weekly one on one with your manager
takes place in front of your priorities map.
She’s become your personal product owner
(even if you haven’t told her)
Would this be introducing Agile practices, without disturbing anyone?
This is why I came to you today.
My question for this group:
Who is intrigued by these questions?
Who can help me answer them?
Because I’d like to talk with you!