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Agile Parenting: Bridging Work and Life
Glen Wang
Google “Agile parenting”
If you google “Agile parenting,” there will be more than 500,000 results. The outstanding ones are:•Geof Lory’s “Manifesto for Agile Parenting”•Bruce Feiler’s “Agile Programming for Your Family”
Geof Lory’s “Manifesto for Agile Parenting”
Bruce Feiler’s “Agile Programming for Your Family”
• Bruce Feiler’s idea is that to deal with the stress of modern family life, go Agile. Inspired by Agile software programming, Feiler introduces family practices that encourage flexibility, bottom-up idea flow, constant feedback, and accountability.
Purpose and scope of this presentation
• Advocate Agile parenting in the Scrum community
• Share my understanding and practice of Agile parenting
• Trigger discussion and thinking
Contents
Why have I written this?
What is Agile parenting?
How do we do Agile parenting?
Agile parenting: Apply Scrum meetings and lists
Agile parenting: Community of practice
Agile parenting: Learning and problem solving
Agile parenting: Managingnegative energy
Acknowledgement: The Mind Map charts in this presentation are drawn by the tool Astah. Thanks Kenji Hiranabe for introducing the tool to me!
Summary
You can begin Agile parenting by:•Applying Scrum meetings and lists, inspecting what works and what doesn’t, and adapting.•To build or transfer from an existing Parenting Club to a CoP of Agile parenting, go gradually.•Keep learning, keep sharing.•The first key is empathy, and the second is trying. Treat human beings as human beings, and try out the Agile ideas.
Summary
Apply Scrum meetings and lists in Family
Pillar 1: Empathy –
Treat Human Being as Human Being
Pillar 2: Try –
Inspect and Adapt
Agile Parenting
Community of Practice:•Wisdom of Crowd•Mutual Support