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Paul’s Home Scrum story with his son Charlie
One example of successful use of Home Scrum with a child comes from my friend and colleague, Paul. He has young twin sons, Evan and Charlie. Charlie has
Why a physical board is better for Home Scrum
Why a physical board matters I strongly recommend using a physical board for your Home Scrum system. There are dozens of digital Scrum board options (or
How to find a good space for your Home Scrum board
The very first decision to make when getting your Home Scrum system set up is where you should put your board. It needs to be somewhere where you wi
Stuff to get for doing Home Scrum
Gathering your equipment You don’t need much to do Home Scrum, and you likely could improvise solutions from what you already have. But you may wan
Our team dynamic with Home Scrum
Like many couples, Francis and I aim to be equal partners in life. However, that doesn’t always translate into equal effort in every endeavour. Whe
“A sense of poisoned rationality”: our standards and ways of working are emotive, not objective
Ways of working are emotive Over several years of thinking about ‘ways of working’ at both a corporate and a personal level, I’ve come
Feeling safe with others is a tricky business: power dynamics and drama triangles
When Google did some research on teams, the main, and really, only common factor among high-performing teams was a sense of ‘psychological safety.&
Who to choose for your Home Scrum team
How to choose your team There are too many birds here to form an effective Scrum team. You need at least one other person to do Home Scrum. You can...
How to ask for help using Home Scrum (with scripts)
What you are actually asking for Let’s ignore the fact that the way Atlas and Hercules treated each other is not the best example of healthy helpin
Some Home Scrum board layouts, from simple to overly complex
At the heart of the Scrum framework is the Scrum board. It’s best to use a real, physical board, although it doesn’t matter whether it’
Why accepting help is hard
During my final year studying Music at Cambridge University, I was riddled with perfectionism and careening towards total burn-out. Eventually, I had suc
Why you can’t do Home Scrum by yourself
A major difference between Scrum and other productivity systems is that it is not designed to be used alone. Asking for help from someone else can be a d
The Knowing-Doing Gap
Credit The ‘Knowing-Doing Gap’ is an idea, like Scrum, that I have borrowed from the world of corporate self-help. It is a frustrating human
Who Home Scrum might be useful for
Who could benefit from Home Scrum? Flowchart to help you decide if Home Scrum could help you Scrum is used to help small groups of people to generate &ld
Why we use Home Scrum
Once you know the difference that it has made in our lives, it is easy to see why we use Home Scrum. A day in the life (now) My husband...
TL;DR: Summary of the whole Home Scrum blog as bullet-points
Too long; didn’t read? No problem. Please find below a bullet-point list summary of Home Scrum of nearly all the ideas included in this blog. A ver
Start Home Scrum now using check-lists
How to get the most out of this blog This blog is written with the most possible emphasis on helping you to put the ideas into specific action immediatel
How we began using Home Scrum
I started my first day as a trainee software developer in July 2017. However, for the first three days the company didn’t teach us about coding; th
“It’s like Lego” – Why Home Scrum works well (especially for neurodivergence)
It’s like Lego: modularity, atomisation and externalisation Lego is modular, atomised and, well, external (hopefully) Something that makes a Scrum
Ways of using your Home Scrum system on the move
A physical task board for your Home Scrum system is the best option. Despite all the ways that using a physical board has its advantages, there is one qu