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Naked

I have a co-worker, who, anytime he is about to reproduce a software defect, says,

Notice how my hands never leave my arms.

This is his version of, “Notice, there is nothing hiding up my sleeves,” before a magic trick. It’s cute. He also tells jokes like,

What does Cape Cod and an elephant have in common?
Hyannis.

But you’re not here for classy jokes (tee hee). You’re here because the title caught your eye, and now you’re beginning to wonder if you’ve been dup’d into reading asinine humor (tee).

The underlying theme in seriously restarting my own ScrumOfOne is transparency, first with myself, then with all you adoring fans. I shared how I’ve been setting myself up with Sprint Backlogs, placing value in completing them, and then my thought processes to Scrumily address this short-term personal development objective after corresponding Retrospectives. In line with this transparency, I have added a top-level page to share how I plan to grow ScrumOfOne as a website, a blog, and as a meme.

Scrum co-founder Jeff Sutherland said he hadn’t heard of applying Scrum to personal development, so I’m taking this journey seriously, stewarding into maturity a relatively nascent idea (hee).

Show Then Tell

Over the past few months/sprints, I’ve been developing a system to more easily adopt Agile Living. Stories have been mainly gathering and molding stories into a proprietary format I have been developing for a while. With bookmarks to Google Docs (‘cloud’-enough for now) on my smart phone pointing to a product backlog, sprint backlog, Scrum script, Daily script, and a few other things, the motions for my own ScrumOfOne have become significantly more fluid.

Progress has gotten me to the point where I am back to dedicating time to this blog, with posts planned for twice a week: once on Sundays after my mini-retrospective and once on Wednesdays as a temperature check on mid-week execution of sprints.

Part of this reboot has been after an acknowledgement of how different facets of personal growth, as well as the numerous projects I want to implement, all feel like they should be their own product backlog. Some products represent continual improvement (physical, cultural, residential) and some represent discrete states of accomplishment (this blog, learning to sail, own music studio), so the organization and prioritization of the numerous stories from the numerous backlogs has required some work, thus why I am only getting back to blogging now.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Google ‘ScrumOfOne’ – Go Ahead

Here, I’ll do it for you. My links are 80% of the first page.

Yes, it is tremendous luck that nobody has done much online with the term ‘ScrumOfOne’, so to secure the Twitter handle, Meetup group name, gmail address, dot-com domain, and then throwing WordPress on there all makes for some relatively simple and evidently effective SEO.

I am tickled pink.

Blog Pages Populated

I finally got to populating each page on this blog beyond a Wikipedia stub entry. They are each just a first version, and I look forward to updating the System page in particular as I craft a progressively more effective framework.

MeetUp scheduled

Every other Tuesday at Trident on Newbury St., I plan on talking Scrum and how it applies to personal development at 7:30pm – great to finally have this established:

http://www.meetup.com/ScrumOfOne/events/19805591/

Have also been experimenting with tying this blog to the Twitter account – this blog post should now post automatically to Twitter once published, courtesy of Twitterfeed; the blog feed is checked every 30 minutes, so it won’t be immediate.