Do you have any interesting applications where you've used Scrum?
Recently, I used it with my family when we were having a lot of "churn" in deciding how to re-decorate our family room. Everyone had their own idea of what it would be, but no common goals.
So, over some Dunkin Donuts coffee and donuts we ran a planning session and created a prioritized backlog. From there we went out and executed very efficiently and turned everything around in less than a week.
My wife Sheri was the Product Owner (of course), I was the ScrumMaster, and the rest of the gang was the team. My wife came up with 3 prioritized goals for the room, and then everyone wrote 2-3 user stories. We then sized them, put a value on them, and prioritized the list. From that point it was just a matter of going to a furniture store, carpet store, and a few clicks on Amazon and that was it....Done!
It was very interesting to see how fast everything moved when we had a set of common goals and everyone had a chance to participate in the outcome.
My students love when I show the pictures from this session and it really highlights how Scrum is useful for many different types of projects!
Do you have any interesting applications of Scrum?
We use it in our home project too, here are some examples that I found on the Web.
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