23 Jul
2006

My Lifehack to Scrum the Family

Scrum as a technique for managing a team of people with common goals works very well. 
Indeed, it works damned well. 

This has been demonstrated in more cases than I can cite for software development,
but where else does Scrum work to help us get things done?  I have heard of successful
attempts to use Scrum in non-development environments, but primarily it seems to be
useful as a tool for managing creative individual contributors.

I just had an idea radical.

My wife and I can use Scrum to manage our family.

Get it?  The kids are the individual contributers, my wife and I can be the customers
and Project Managers.  The kids can rotate the role of Scrum Master! 
People, this rocks!

I think my wife is going to freak out when she reads this (she is the currently the CMMI
Project Manager of the house), but it is a great idea, baby.  Trust me. 
We’ll talk when I get home.