Klaus Bucka-LassenScrum @ Home

THE GOAL

Background

ROUTINES

Our first board

The simplest version

&

Tasks

Simple morning board

Next step – evening board

Kids do their own reminders

What is that?

Current evening board

Priority /

Dependency

Experiments that didn’t work out (at the time)

• Electronic tool (Trello)

• Pictures vs. drawings vs. text

• Easy reset (in theory)

• One tablet for two kids

• Less visual / in your face => less motivation

• One board for morning and evening routine

• Not motivating in the morning

• Timer that shows the time (left)

• No feel for time

• Not “visible” enough

Visualize, visualize, visualize

KPIs & Rewards

• With rewards (extrinsic)

• Focus is on the reward, not a lasting

change in attitude and behavior

• Without rewards (intrinsic)

• Team-goal (not individual)

• Works much better

But, just like with bonuses …

Have it

your way,

Dad …

Conclusion

• This is about routine rather than change

• Good days are good. Bad days are rarer

• Moving stickies is motivating for the kids – sense of progress

• Visualization helps the kids a lot

Try it! Right now!

Take Away

1. Pair up

2. Write a ToDo and a Done sticky.

3. Think through a routine and write down

the tasks (value stream mapping ;-)

4. Start simple – do rather too few than

too many tasks.

Pick the 3-4 most important.

5. Make one sticky for each task – write or draw or both.

5 min.

THE FAMILY BOARD

The Family Board

The Product Backlog

Our Backlog

• All currently know family tasks

• Visible & anybody can add new stories

• Prioritized by ROI (importance, urgency, value, cost)

• Managed by “Product Owner”

What we might experiment with

• Clearly assigned PO / SM

• Phrase as user stories (especially the “Why”

is not always apparent)

• Epics vs. Stories -> Slicing

• Relative estimates

Sprint Plan

Weekly Sprint Plan

• Prioritized (kind of)

• Visible to everybody

What we might experiment with

• Burn down & velocity

• Impediment list / Blockers

• “Doing” column with WIP-limit

Done

• Used to reflect during the weekly

family meeting

• “Definition of Done”

– not necessary yet

Policies / Agreements

• Make policies explicit by

writing them down

• Review them regularly (e.g.

at the family meeting).

• Examples

• 10 min. reading

=> 10 min. playing on the tablet

(5 min. bonus if reading was own idea)

• Speak English at dinner

• Clean up after you after eating (your plate & cup + 2 more things)

• $2 pocket money payed every Friday

Mapping to Scrum

Roles

• Product Owner &

ScrumMaster

Artifacts

• Product Backlog, Scrum

Board, Policies

• Values

Meetings / Ceremonies

• Daily

• Family meeting

• Retrospective

• Demo

• Refinement

• Planning

Scrum or Kanban?

?

Happy Family

Challenges (summary)

• Motivation for family meetings

• Motivation for getting things done

• Feel for urgency (timing for kids)

• Stickies don’t stick forever

… suggestions?

Links and ReferencesAgiles Vorgehen zu Hause anwenden

Agile finance!

TheAgile Household

Henrik Kniberg

More Links and Tools

Why I exposed our familybudget to our children

[Articles provided by Steve Ostermiller]

Really Dad?

You didn’t

have Scrum

when you

were a kid!?

NO WAY!

Klaus Bucka-Lassen

LinkedIn / Xing

@danish_kauboy