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Be sure to join Your Agile Home over at youragilehome.substack.com for free (and exclusive!) content. \r\n You can support this podcast here: Patreon\r\n  \r\n The number one question I get is: how do I get my family to buy-in? \r\n Getting children to buy-in is the easiest thing you will do because they will love being asked their opinion and their feedback. \r\n The importance here is the follow-through. You have to actually take your children\'s input and feedback into consideration. \r\n  \r\n  \r\n

Be sure to join Your Agile Home over at youragilehome.substack.com for free (and exclusive!) content. \r\n You can support this podcast here: Patreon\r\n  \r\n This can the hardest buy-in to get because your partner already has a way of doing things and may not be open to new ideas. \r\n  \r\n Don\'t try to implement any new software.\r\n Don\'t take on more projects than you can realistically complete.\r\n Make your first sprint smaller than you think it needs to be.\r\n

You can support this podcast here: Substack Patreon Today, we are talking about how to manage team members with negative attitudes. Listen, we've all dealt with them before.  Heck, I've even been a team member with a negative attitude. It's no different at home.  Here are my tips for managing it. 1. Make space for bad days 2. Ask how you can help them have a better day 3. Ask someone else to help them attack the problem 4. Use positive reinforcement 5. Go do something you'll both enjoy

Be sure to join Your Agile Home over at youragilehome.substack.com for free (and exclusive!) content.    Bullet journaling is something I picked up because of my forgetfulness and ADHD. Now, the minute I think of something, I pick up my bullet journal and jot it down.  I also use it to track my habits and goals.  I also use it to assign a day and a time to my to-dos so that I know that I'm actually achieving what I set out to do.  Using my bullet journal also allows me to review and track my goals and habits at the end of the month. 

Be sure to join Your Agile Home over at youragilehome.substack.com for free (and exclusive!) content.    New Years usually brings on discussions about goals and goal setting, but how do you set Agile goals?  We need to be continually making progress towards our goals, whether the goals are big or small.  Make sure to evaluate your progress at the end of the sprint and make adjustments in your plans as you're moving forward. 

Quiet time with my noise-canceling headphones.  Exercise Playing video games - especially ones like Animal Crossing where you're building community Writing in my gratitude journal Taking a shower    What helps you boost your mood? Email me and let me know! 

Brain dumping is so important when it comes to creating your backlog and for keeping yourself from becoming overwhelmed.  What are the steps for an effective brain dump? -Find a quiet spot -Write down everything that comes out of your brain without a filter -After you've gotten everything out of your brain, prioritize what you've written down. 

What does being done in Agile mean?  It means that your team - or your family - is aware of what the expected deliverable is and it is delivered. It is all about transparency. The quality of work meets the description of the product.  Over time, the project may become a part of your sprint again, as you realize some pieces are not working. You're creating a culture of ideas and empowering even your youngest to make decisions.

We're getting near and dear to my heart talking about all of my favorites.  1. ClickUp. You've heard me talk about it so often. Use my affiliate link to get a 30% off of Unlimited and 15% off Business for their first year. 2. My expo marker and whiteboard. I use it for EVERYTHING. 3. Microsoft To Do Lists 4. My Dakboard hooked up using a Raspberry Pi.

What is an Agile Roadmap? When we look at what we want in life, we want to have a map of where you are going and what you want to do.  This helps you to set your goals and to meet them. You need to be specific.  With a roadmap, there is continuity of purpose. Everyone will be on the same page to reach the goal.

We've been talking all about scope creep and today we are going to talk about avoiding it!  1. Document the requirements 2. Set up a change process. 3. Create a clear project schedule. 4. Verify the scope. Make sure everyone is on the same page. 5. Engage the project team. You want to know how changes will affect them.   It is important to avoid scope creep because it can take longer than you budgeted, cost more than you budgeted and can lead to burnout.

These are the top 4 causes of scope creep. 1. Lack of clear and detailed scope is the number one reason for scope creep. The project will morph on its own without a clear scope. 2. You aren't proactive with issues and roadblocks.  3. Disagreements on how to handle change. 4. Poor estimation - time, money, etc. Everything was not specified at the beginning.  

Listen to today's episode to learn what scope creep is, why scope creep is a problem, and how to avoid it.  Scope creep occurs when you start adding things outside your predetermined definition of "done" If you suffer from scope creep, you may notice that: your definition of "done" is changed you end up adding to your project's budget your timeline will have to be increased 

I'm not the first or last person to tell you that multitasking is bad for you, but I can tell you that single-tasking is the #1 thing that helps me complete my home projects. How do I do this best?  I started creating baskets in various places of my home so that I wasn't constantly going up and down the stairs and multitasking.  I tune out from my phone and don't have multiple tabs open on my computer. Do you multitask or single-task?   Get started on your Agile transformation with my free course. 

Click this affiliate link to try ClickUp and get a 15% - 30% discount. Here are all of the things that you absolutely need to put in your home ClickUp spacease. Backlog - all of your dreamiest projects! Recurring Tasks (and assign them out) Personal Information (easy to display for babysitters etc like hospital and doctors numbers.) Food & Meal Plan Finance Holidays (So they don't sneak up on you)

A lot of the time our Scrum meetings are not just daily logistics, but we're also talking about moving our sprints forward. Here are different ways that I keep track of that information. Whiteboard Ipad Post - It Note Make sure you also talk about anything you completed the day before and any roadblocks that you are currently experiencing. If you want to learn more about the daily scrum, check out my course.

The tasks we are talking about today are more frequent tasks that don't fit into a sprint. These are very specific. List them all out and let everyone pick their favorites. Then deal with what is leftover democratically. Revisit periodically as your children get older.  If you want to get started on your Agile transformation, check out my free course.

Do you want to try out ClickUp? Click here for my affiliate link and you'll get a 15% - 30% discount! Know what's on our sprint Get it on my radar/schedule mark delegation so I'm not thinking about it easily prioritize the backlog evaluate your projects I have so many resources for this and want to help you! Send me an email and we'll get you set up. 

Taking the time to understand how stress works will help you handle all the stress that 2020 has brought upon us.    Listen to today's episode and learn some tips and tricks for managing stress and communicating effectively.   Learn More About Valerie: Valerie Friedlander is a Certified Life Coach and Energy Leadership Master Practitioner. She specializes in helping high-achieving women with children to reach their personal and professional goals with greater ease and enjoyment. In addition to her coach training, Valerie draws on her studies in sociology, neuroscience, addiction recovery, and spiritual discernment to support her clients in reducing patterns of stress and anxiety while increasing focus, follow-through, and fun in all areas of their life. Clients have called her a "motivational unicorn" and "mindset magician" (which she loves because she is also a huge nerd with a passion for analogies.) https://valeriefriedlander.com/

Start your agile transformation with my free course.  User stories are so important to propel the conversation forward to find out what is really needed for each project.  Here's how to create a user story: Define the End User Specify what they want Describe the benefit Add acceptance criteria This is important because it is a factual way to state a problem without any blame or negativity.