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

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Panel

Chris Sexton
Allison McMillan
KWu
Arit Amana
Chris Arcand

Special Guest: Yvonne Marcus.

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