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HOME SCRUM Tackle life together For neurodiverse families, couples or individuals who need a way to stay on top of life. Scrum is: a team of people tryin
Beeminder
Beeminder logo Beeminder screenshot Beeminder is a website where you can make promises to yourself that come with real stakes. You track your success or
WhatsMock
WhatsMock logo An unusual app that I use to help myself cope with life is called WhatsMock. (This app looks like a similar one for iPhones.) WhatsMock is
Freedom App
Freedom app I am using the Freedom app right now, in order to keep focused on writing this blog post. It lets you block whatever apps and websites you ne
Meditation and Mindfulness
Headspace Balance logo You don’t need any technology or tools to practise mindfulness (although the meditation apps Headspace or Balance are good p
Habitica and Loresome
Habitica Habitica logo Habitica mobile app screenshot The Habitica website is a wonderful community of people who all struggle to get things done, but of
Bullet journaling
Bullet journaling is the system I would recommend for neurodivergent people to use if you can’t find others to do Home Scrum with you. The bullet j
Tiny Habits
Tiny Habits, the book: but don’t worry, it’s all on the website really The idea of creating habits out of micro-behaviours has gained tractio
Focusmate
Focusmate screenshot If I could give people with ADHD one website to help them, it would be Focusmate. For a very reasonable monthly fee of $5, you can l
Writing down every step of a task as I do it
Mapping steps of a task as I go One of the problems with doing any task (although particularly something technical like coding) is simply how to hold the
Pomodoros, Animedoros, Work-cycles, and Relays
Pomodoros The official Pomodoro Technique book (you don’t need it, it’s very simple) Pomodoros are a classic focus technique of which you may
Mind-mapping
I love making mind-maps. Mind-maps can be used for whenever you’re trying to think about something. I use them for planning, but also to prepare id
PARA: personal knowledge management system
An area of personal organisation that isn’t much discussed directly is that of personal knowledge management. These days you can find pretty much a
Role of a Scrum Master
Like the Product Owner, the Scrum Master is a special role within an official Scrum team. Their role is an unusual one quite unique to Scrum. They are re
Role of a Product Owner
In an official Scrum team, there are three roles: the developers (that is, the people doing the work), the Scrum Master, and the Product Owner. Credit A
T-shirt sizes, planning poker, and capacity/velocity
Extra things you can do around sizing tasks One way to check that your tasks are a reasonable amount of work and have been broken down to the right level
Definition of Done, Definition of Ready, and Acceptance Criteria
The following ideas are not all an official part of Scrum, but they are often used in conjunction with it as complementary techniques. Francis and I don&
Finch app
Finch logo Finch app screenshot The Finch app is essentially a phone game where you can look after a virtual pet (a finch, shockingly). The difference is
Anki flashcards
Anki logo Anki screenshot Anki is an app/website for memorising flash cards. Just like with any flash cards, you have a question or prompt on one side an
Extra ideas for gamifying your Home Scrum system
There are many ways of expanding on the basic Scrum framework, and in this post I have put together a bunch of suggestions for extra things Francis and I