Ep 030: Two Moms Agile: Scrum vs Kanban

by | Oct 29, 2019 | Podcast

Brandi Olson is the founder and chief change artist at The Olson Group (www.HelloOlson.com). With expertise in teaching, organizational learning and change, and human-centered design, Brandi is an experienced organizational designer and strategic partner with 10+ years of experience applying and teaching agile practices with teams and leaders. Brandi has a Masters of Education from the University of Minnesota and is a trained Human-Centered Design facilitator, Agile coach and Certified Scrum Professional with the Scrum Alliance. Brandi has been featured in Forbes, Inc, and is a sought after speaker at leadership conferences all over the country.

In this episode, the two moms sit down and talk about how they run an Agile Home and what exactly the differences are in Scrum vs. Kanban. We also learn about how both make the mental and emotional work visible to the entire family. 

The core of agile is really just the values and principles about how we get work done and how we work together. Then the practices and the tools that we use get tailored to the particular problems in terms of our lives or home or school or something totally different.

Overwhelm, too much work and things fly in lots of different directions can really give working parents with young kids that feeling of just, “Oh my gosh, I just don’t know how to keep everything all together.”
 
Things come up and you can’t plan everything perfectly. To be able to have a system in place in a rhythm that allows you to respond to what comes up without having that throw your entire world upside down is really important. Especially when the margins are thin. As a working parent with young kids, there’s not a lot of slack in life these days. And so being able to respond to the inevitable disruptions, changes, emergencies that come up is really important. 
 
Which have you tried in your home life – Kanban or Scrum? Let us know in the Facebook Group!