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Scrum Master Dad
One dad, six branches: behaviors, general habits, releases and milestones, the daily routine, daily iteration, and the weekly review.
Behaviors
- Positive: encourage and keep smiling!
- Confident: if you don’t buy in, the family won’t
- Calm and controlled
- Observe, but know when to step in
- Resist the urge to do everything yourself
- Don’t wait to clean up
- Talk up the retrospective straight after
- Put tasks on the chart straight after planning
General
- Shield the family from external interferences
- Encourage family communication
- Say well done and thanks to the family every so often
- “Radiate” information
- Talk to the family
- Update and review the star charts
- Make sure changes are known and discussed
Releases and milestones
- Roles and responsibility planning
- Priorities
- Family: high-level view and buy-in
Daily
- Wake up kids
- Chat at breakfast
- Yesterday
- Today
- Impediments
- Chat at breakfast
- Prompt for star chart updates
- Check in with family members
- Review the day with family
- Identify must-do items
- Identify get-to-do items
- Update the star chart
- Impediments
- Reschedule work or appointments
- Get a sitter to help
Daily iteration
- Next iteration day planning
- Planning milestone prep
- Planning milestone facilitation
- Selection of technique
- Practical
- Emotional
- Retrospective prep
- Retrospective facilitation
- Retrospective actions and social post
- Lunch prep
- Sports practice
- Daily follow-up
- Get and review feedback
- Backlog additions
- Heads up to the family on behavior
Weekly
- Sizing the month
- Activity splitting time
- Review the week’s schedule
- Review retrospective actions
- Check in with school, family, or friends to discuss issues
Want to try it at home? The free star chart template is a one-page printout.
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