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People’s experiences using Home Scrum

People’s experiences using Home Scrum Real-life applications of people using Home Scrum in their lives, to greater (or lesser) effect. You can also

Fast-track | Bare Essentials

Fast Track | Bare Essentials These posts are at the core of learning how to do Home Scrum. If you only read a few posts, make it these ones! I’ve..

Medium track | Practicality-focused

Medium track | Practicality-focused These posts include all the ‘core’ posts from the fast-track, but also include a bit more detail on some

Slow track | But still not the whole blog

Slow Track | But still not the whole blog These posts include all the posts from the fast and medium-track, but include some of the highlights of my more

Read the whole blog like a book

Read the whole blog like a book This is the full table of contents that I would provide if I ever published this blog as a book (which was my...

Ideas for Home Scrum that we don’t use

Ideas for Home Scrum that we don't use These are related ideas from Scrum and nearby concepts, but that we haven’t found useful to use in our own H

How to do Home Scrum

How to do Home Scrum This category covers what it says on the tin: the practicalities of how to do Home Scrum. There is also a sub-category of ideas rela

Other ways of tackling life (with or without neurodivergence)

Other ways of tackling life (with or without neurodivergence) Perhaps Home Scrum isn’t quite right for you – never fear! Here are a whole hos

Francis and Sally’s experiences of using Home Scrum

Francis and Sally’s experiences of using Home Scrum Personal examples of how Francis and I use Home Scrum and the difference it has made in our liv

The iterative method of practising

How to practise a physical skill As a child, teenager and young adult, I spent a lot of time practising violin and piano. As I have discussed elsewhere,

The psychology and philosophy of productivity, procrastination and perfectionism

The psychology and philosophy of productivity, procrastination and perfectionism These posts are more about the surrounding brain issues to do with tryin

Why Home Scrum works

Why Home Scrum works A look into what makes Home Scrum an effective way to work on things. < Back to the full post playlists page No posts were found.

Post playlists

Post Playlists I wrote this blog with a neurodivergent audience in mind. I want to make sure that, if Home Scrum might be helpful for you, it is as easy.

Contact & Community

Contact & Community Contact Sally Welcome to the Home Scrum contact page! Please don’t hesitate to say hello; I would love to hear about what y

Other thoughts on living a good life (An incomplete list)

This post is going to provide a quick overview of three of the main ways I’ve tested out about how to be a good person. The kyriarchy You probably

Forest app & Sleep Town app

Forest app Forest app screenshot The Forest app has a very simple premise: it helps you to stop using your phone (or tablet, or particular websites on yo

Counselling directories

BACP logo. When considering how to live a good life, any self-help resource that doesn’t mention mental health is not considering the full picture.

Digital Home Scrum board options (if you have to)

As I say in this post, I would definitely encourage you to use a physical Scrum board. However, there are situations where a digital Scrum board will be

What Kanban is and how we’ve used elements of it in Home Scrum

Kanban’s similar-but-different approach Kanban is a similar system to Scrum that is meant to help visualise your workflow and improve it based on e

Diagram of how to do Home Scrum. First section: What you'll need 1) At least one other person (could be online) 2) An empty wall you see often 3) A board, post-it notes, and (for a whiteboard) blu-tack or (for a cork board) pins. Second section: Board layout Adapt this layout to you, or start simple with columns for To Do, Doing, and Done. Divide columns with ribbon, string, tape, or strips of newspaper. Use different colours for different life categories (e.g. Health, Home, Work, Hobbies). Each task should be on a single post-it note of the appropriate colour, with a specific, do-able next step written on it. In the top corner you can write a number in a circle, which gives the task points. Points represent effort, and we often use the following scale: 0.5, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 20, 40, infinity. Suggested landscape board layout: 1) 'Backlog' first column, far left, groups tasks by life category 2) 'This Week' top half of second column; fill this with a realistic number of tasks from the backlog 3) 'Regulars' bottom half of second column; 'Regulars' are repeating tasks, e.g. housework. 4) 'Today' third column, potentially split further into columns for each person's tasks. Could add a 'Morning' heading at the top of the column and an 'Afternoon' one halfway down, to indicate when you'll get to a task. 4) 'Done today' top third fourth column. 5) 'Burn-up Chart' middle third fourth column, this can just be a simple graph to show how many tasks you've done, but can be adapted later into a fun game. 6) 'Done This Week', bottom third fourth column; read the tasks from here again before discarding them, to celebrate your achievements. Third section: The Scrum Events 1) The Daily Scrum: - maximum 15 minutes - stand up if possible - move tasks to 'done today' - count total points done - record points on burn-up chart - move tasks back to regulars or into 'done this week' - plan tasks for next day (move them to 'today') - do *every day* 2) Retrospective ('retro') - 5 to 30 minutes - Discuss improvements to your system - Pick an idea to try for the next week - Use little games to make it more fun - Air your feelings - Weekly or fortnightly 3) Planning - 15 to 45 minutes - Remove stale tasks from backlong - Break down larger tasks into smaller steps - Decide which tasks from the backlog to move into 'this week' - Pick fewer tasks than you think you can do - Weekly or fortnightly 4) Review - Clear out 'done this week' - Remind yourself of all your progress and celebrate

What Scrum is

Scrum is a way of organising a small group of people to work together. The whole system is defined fully in the Scrum Guide, which is only 12 pages long.

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