Does your home feel chaotic, overwhelming, and like there’s constantly too many small things to keep track of, so you aren’t making any progress on any big goals or dreams?
Change the word “home” to “work” and that would describe much of my experience working on software projects at Apple. We were often so busy dealing with day to day emergencies and requests from other teams, that we were not making progress on developing our technology in any planned way. It was incredibly frustrating. One of the answers, for our team, was to start using a project management system called Agile, where the goals are to increase collaborative effort, make teams more self-sufficient, and increase productivity and efficiency. And it worked. We started to pull together as a team, we all understood the larger vision we were working toward (because we had decided on it together), and we could make decisions about issues and incoming requests much faster.
So when I met Yvonne Marcus recently, and she told me she was teaching Agile methods to moms, so they could more efficiently run their homes, I knew I had to talk to her more. In this episode, she tells us all about what that means, the basics of how to do it, and the kind of results that her clients are seeing - like drinking coffee hot every morning, saving money, and watching their kids help solve their own behavior struggles. I mean, wow.
And what I love about this is that it takes the weight of household management off the shoulders of the mom, where it usually sits. It increases communication and engages the other family members, even young kids, in taking ownership of personal and household responsibilities. And doesn’t that sound amazing?
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