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Things you don’t think of as work that are actually work
What counts as work? Here’s an incomplete list of different types of work: Working for money (a job) School work (or learning in general) Housework
Beware scope creep
When thinking of tasks or projects or goals, it is useful to think about scope. The scope of a task or project means almost the same as its size, but...
How to plan (and how to make planning less overwhelming)
The purpose of planning I used to think that the point of planning out my time was to fit more into my days. By cleverly combining certain errands into o
Your requirements (for life) are dumb: how to tell if you’re on the right track
We receive many cultural messages throughout life, and one of these, at least in the West, is ‘be productive’. It’s a loud enough messa
Aim Low, Do Less, Go Easy: how to be kind to yourself
How do we scour the scourge of perfectionism from our minds? Well, to do that, we need to be asking how to be kind to yourself. Remember, productivity is
Procrastination: listen to your own cry for help
I’ve been meaning to sit down and finish this post for the last two weeks or so. I am finally doing it now because my friend Alex has offered to...
Perfectionism: the destroyer of worlds
Do you plan too much? Are you always trying to optimise every part of your life but struggling to get any of it done? There is an old Italian proverb:...
On giving up and letting go
Letting go The next few posts took me a while, because I wasn’t sure what I was trying to say, or how to say it without repeating myself over and..
Iteration: inspect, adapt, play
The importance of iteration in Scrum cannot be overemphasised. But why do we put such weight on the idea of repeating stuff? Be empirical One major reaso
Burn-up charts & story points: the weird world of intrinsic motivation
Capturing a task for your Scrum board is as simple as grabbing a small scrap of paper, jotting the task down, and putting it on the relevant place on you
Ideas for your Home Scrum retrospective
The Sprint Retrospective, as the name suggests, is a chance to retrospectively reflect on the last sprint as a team and consider how it went. As the Scru
Different flavours of Daily Scrum
The main purpose of your Daily Scrum is to meet as a whole team in front of your Scrum board and share your progress and obstacles, ideally towards your
Times we’ve stopped doing Home Scrum for a while
In a hammock in Vietnam, I admit I wasn’t thinking about Home Scrum There have been several times when Francis and I have stopped doing the Daily S
How to do the Home Scrum events
What are the Scrum events? In Scrum, we avoid the term ‘meeting’ because even inside the corporate world, it has too many negative connotatio
Sprints and Sprint Goals
What is a sprint? As stated in the introductory post, a sprint refers to the time-cycle in Scrum at the end of which you have your Sprint Review, Sprint
Life categories
An old version of our life categories (this was too many!) I feel that a good planning system would not be complete without some colour-coding. A good le
The Standard of Standards and the Sword of Ambition: thoughts on two types of goals (and how to set good ones)
Even at a job, work is not just one type of thing. This is even more true at home, where the work of life can vary wildly. So it can...
The speed-run | Summaries only
The speed-run | Summaries only Too long, didn’t read? These posts are: the whole blog as bullet points, and the whole blog as check-lists. That&rsq