About this Episode

Parent Driven Development

Episode 050: Agile Household with Yvonne Marcus

Yvonne is a home system strategist, mom of two, lover of Girl Scout cookies, cake, craving song parodies and getting outdoors with the family. She is on a mission to revolutionize everyones view of #MomLife. She is the creator of your Agile Home, a four-week course that looks to get your family together, feel like a valued member of the team, instilling autonomy and having fun!

00:50 Welcome, Yvonne Marcus

Background in TV production
How Agile Home came about
Bringing Agile into her home
Establishing family values

07:10 When and how is Agile executed in Yvonne’s house?

WFH, toddlers and setting values
Run as SCRUM
The sprint process, and day-to-day process

10:40 Are the kids involved?

Daily SCRUM board: white board + Scrum board home toolset
They participate in bi-weekly check in
Dance party and breaks are essential

13:09 Accountability without the nagging

Assignments to the person with the more strengths in that specific area

14:45 How do we get skeptical families on board?

Start with the daily stand-up
Start on your own, showcase success, then show those with doubts

18:50 Quarantine times

Get rid of #MomGuilt !

20:00 Genius / Fail moments

Kwu’s children have both fallen to the ground from various chairs in the past week… #fail
Chris Sexton and his wife didn't have any troubles with a PDD Twitter poll.. #win
Arit creates a schedule for her son for his Zoom class and school work after realizing her son kept coming to her with every question #geniusfail
Chris Arcand’s son is starting to say anything and everything he feels. Sassiness to come #fail
Yvonne becomes the fun mom by dying her kids hair #genius
Allison and her partner create space for “virtual travel” for her to prepare for GitHub’s satellite conference #genius