Latest Homemanagement Podcast Episodes
Setting Agile Goals in 2021
Your Agile Home - January 26, 2021 12:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsBe sure to join Your Agile Home over at youragilehome.substack.com for free (and exclusive!) content. New Years usually brings on discussions about goals and goal setting, but how do you set Agile goals? We need to be continually making progress towards our goals, whether the goals are...
3 Reasons It's Important to Use I Statements
Your Agile Home - January 21, 2021 12:00 - ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsPlaces to support Your Agile Home: youragilehome.substack.com Why I Use "I" Statements 1. No one else can make you feel a certain way 2. Doesn't Place Blame 3. It makes people feel valued and like their opinion is valued I statements are especially important when creating user sto...
5 Ways I Boost My Mood
Your Agile Home - January 07, 2021 13:19 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsQuiet time with my noise-canceling headphones. Exercise Playing video games - especially ones like Animal Crossing where you're building community Writing in my gratitude journal Taking a shower What helps you boost your mood? Email me and let me know!
How To Effectively Brain Dump
Your Agile Home - January 05, 2021 12:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsBrain dumping is so important when it comes to creating your backlog and for keeping yourself from becoming overwhelmed. What are the steps for an effective brain dump? -Find a quiet spot -Write down everything that comes out of your brain without a filter -After you've gotten everythin...
What is the Definition of Done
Your Agile Home - December 22, 2020 12:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsWhat does being done in Agile mean? It means that your team - or your family - is aware of what the expected deliverable is and it is delivered. It is all about transparency. The quality of work meets the description of the product. Over time, the project may become a part of your sprint...
Why Create an Agile Roadmap
Your Agile Home - December 15, 2020 12:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsWhat is an Agile Roadmap? When we look at what we want in life, we want to have a map of where you are going and what you want to do. This helps you to set your goals and to meet them. You need to be specific. With a roadmap, there is continuity of purpose. Everyone will be on the same p...
5 Ways to Avoid Scope Creep
Your Agile Home - December 10, 2020 12:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsWe've been talking all about scope creep and today we are going to talk about avoiding it! 1. Document the requirements 2. Set up a change process. 3. Create a clear project schedule. 4. Verify the scope. Make sure everyone is on the same page. 5. Engage the project team. You want to ...
4 Causes of Scope Creep
Your Agile Home - December 08, 2020 12:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsThese are the top 4 causes of scope creep. 1. Lack of clear and detailed scope is the number one reason for scope creep. The project will morph on its own without a clear scope. 2. You aren't proactive with issues and roadblocks. 3. Disagreements on how to handle change. 4. Poor estimat...
What is Scope Creep and How To Avoid it
Your Agile Home - December 03, 2020 16:02 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsListen to today's episode to learn what scope creep is, why scope creep is a problem, and how to avoid it. Scope creep occurs when you start adding things outside your predetermined definition of "done" If you suffer from scope creep, you may notice that: your definition of "done" is chang...
The #1 Thing that Helped Me Complete Home Projects
Your Agile Home - December 01, 2020 12:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsI'm not the first or last person to tell you that multitasking is bad for you, but I can tell you that single-tasking is the #1 thing that helps me complete my home projects. How do I do this best? I started creating baskets in various places of my home so that I wasn't constantly going up ...
Best Folders for Your Agile Home in ClickUp
Your Agile Home - November 24, 2020 12:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsClick this affiliate link to try ClickUp and get a 15% - 30% discount. Here are all of the things that you absolutely need to put in your home ClickUp spacease. Backlog - all of your dreamiest projects! Recurring Tasks (and assign them out) Personal Information (easy to display for babysi...
3 Ways I Record Information During Daily Scrum
Your Agile Home - November 19, 2020 12:00 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsA lot of the time our Scrum meetings are not just daily logistics, but we're also talking about moving our sprints forward. Here are different ways that I keep track of that information. Whiteboard Ipad Post - It Note Make sure you also talk about anything you completed the day before and ...
How to Assign Household Tasks for the 1st Time
Your Agile Home - November 17, 2020 12:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsThe tasks we are talking about today are more frequent tasks that don't fit into a sprint. These are very specific. List them all out and let everyone pick their favorites. Then deal with what is leftover democratically. Revisit periodically as your children get older. If you want to get st...
5 Reasons I Use Click Up
Your Agile Home - November 12, 2020 12:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsDo you want to try out ClickUp? Click here for my affiliate link and you'll get a 15% - 30% discount! Know what's on our sprint Get it on my radar/schedule mark delegation so I'm not thinking about it easily prioritize the backlog evaluate your projects I have so many resources for thi...
Handling Stress with Valerie Friedlander
Your Agile Home - November 10, 2020 12:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsTaking the time to understand how stress works will help you handle all the stress that 2020 has brought upon us. Listen to today's episode and learn some tips and tricks for managing stress and communicating effectively. Learn More About Valerie: Valerie Friedlander is a Certifie...
Creating a User Story
Your Agile Home - November 05, 2020 12:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsStart your agile transformation with my free course. User stories are so important to propel the conversation forward to find out what is really needed for each project. Here's how to create a user story: Define the End User Specify what they want Describe the benefit Add acceptance...
Creating Your Minimum Viable Life
Your Agile Home - November 03, 2020 12:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsJoin my free email course to start your own Agile transformation. We're talking about the base things you need in order to have the best possible life. You start with the bare minimum and you can move up or be agile to change quickly. Find your non-negotiables. This is the thing that you ...
How to Use ClickUp as Part of Your Information Radiator
Your Agile Home - October 29, 2020 11:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsYour information radiator is more than what's on your calendar or countdowns. You can find out more information on my mini-course for your daily standup. I use ClickUp for this. (Affiliate link) You can get 30% off of Unlimited and 15% off Business for their first year. I split it up to a pr...
Why a To-Do List Prevents Meaningful Self-Care
Your Agile Home - October 27, 2020 11:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsSelf-care is not the answer to burn out or overwhelm from your to do list. However, your to do list is preventing you from having meaningful self-care. A running to do list that is never-ending makes it hard for you to feel like you actually accomplished anything for the day. Instead of ...
How We Agile: Toy Donation
Your Agile Home - October 22, 2020 11:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsSign up to start your Agile Transformation here! The holidays are coming and we all need to get things out of the house before new toys come into the house! This is the first year we involved the kids. We do it in a couple of phases so that the kids don't get emotional. Have clear paramete...
How To Recover From Parenting Burnout
Your Agile Home - October 20, 2020 11:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsAgile got me out of my parenting burnout. This is the exact course that got me out of parenting burnout. But first, you have to go through some things before you get to Agile. What is burnout? It is a complete overwhelm with mental, physical and emotional exhaustion. What are the signs of ...
What is Scope and How Do You Fend Off Scope Creep?
Your Agile Home - October 15, 2020 11:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsWith projects and tasks, every person involved has their own idea of how things will go in their mind. We will talk about how to best communicate. What is scope? Scope is everything you need for the process to be delivered. What is scope creep? This is when something else comes in and derai...
Becoming Eco Friendly with Bev Feldman
Your Agile Home - October 13, 2020 11:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsJoin my free course on Agile here! Today, we are joined by my dear friend Bev Feldman, a blogger and mom who is passionate about sustainability. We're in this crossroads, where if we don't change something soon the whole world is in trouble. I wanted to make sustainability and eco-consci...
Our Holiday Traditions + Permission to Wait
Your Agile Home - October 08, 2020 11:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsWant to know how to handle the holidays in a pandemic? Join me for my free webinar. Halloween starts our holidays. We order pizza, trick-or-treat, hand out candy and watch a movie while the kids stay up late. Thanksgiving we do just one side of the family. Christmas, we find a local la...
How We Agile: Halloween
Your Agile Home - October 06, 2020 11:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsHalloween 2020 is going to look a little different this year. To find out how I'm handling Halloween click here. Every year, we plan our costumes early. That way we can start buying or making things early. Go to your local warehouse and buy your candy in bulk early. Get candy that isn't wrap...
Apology: Words Matter
Your Agile Home - October 05, 2020 15:02 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsHere at Yvonne Marcus Consulting, we believe that words matter and we are coming to you today with an apology. It was brought to our attention this weekend that we have been using a term that is ableist. We want to make the effort to do better now that we know better. This means that The Da...
Best Practices for Your Daily Stand Up
Your Agile Home - October 01, 2020 11:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsGet my Daily Stand Up mini course for just $17 right now! So what are the best practices? 1. Respect the Time Box 2. Meet in person. 3. Come on time and prepared. 4. No multi-tasking during the meeting. 5. Include self-care needs. 6. Schedule this at the best time for everyone. 7...
Best Practices for Your Daily Scrum
Your Agile Home - October 01, 2020 11:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsGet my Daily Scrum mini course for just $17 right now! So what are the best practices? 1. Respect the Time Box 2. Meet in person. 3. Come on time and prepared. 4. No multi-tasking during the meeting. 5. Include self-care needs. 6. Schedule this at the best time for everyone. 7. H...
Favorite Games for Family Game Night
Your Agile Home - September 29, 2020 11:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsCheck out my free 3 Pillars Mini-Course! Family Game Night is my favorite. Our favorite educational game is Count Your Chickens. We also love Sunny Day, Rainy Day; Clumsy Beef; Sneaky Snacky Squirrel; and Uno. We also enjoy Ticket to Ride's geography focus. We love Candyland and Creationar...
The Story of the Bear Spray
Your Agile Home - September 24, 2020 11:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsGo from Agile zero to Agile hero with my new free 3-day mini-course! One day, our kids saw a bear climb over our neighbor's fence. This scared them. We then started to try to explain to my daughter how the bear will not come in and get her. It didn't seem to work. So, we decided to make B...
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