Scrum & Romance

Is your romantic relationship blooming or suffering?

Did you know that #scrum could help you make it better?

Yes, scrum Is a light framework for complex systems, and what's more complex than a human being with emotions, let alone, two of those together in a romantic relationship? Unchecked, that's a recipe for disaster!

Here are some steps to take:

✔️ Choose a convenient duration for a sprint.
✔️ Have a backlog for goals and prioritize them together.
✔️ Choose a goal for the sprint.
✔️ Plan towards the goal as a team/couple. Yes, you can both be product owner, scrum master and developers together in the beginning until you get a hang of it and regroup.
✔️ Just for between 1-15 minutes, discuss your contribution or tasks towards the goal every single day either over a meal, in bed doing bed things if the atmosphere is right, or whatever you prefer.
✔️ At the last day of the sprint, review the result of your tasks towards the goal for that sprint.
✔️ Celebrate wins and discuss the strategies and tools used during the sprint, and ways to improve them. ✔️ Make some time during the week to refine, add, or remove from the backlog of goals.
✔️ Repeat the steps every sprint.

Thank me later!

CAVEAT: For this to work, you've both got to have:
💡 A reasonable level of emotional intelligence to receive feedback,
💡 The healthy assertive communication style to give feedback,
💡 And a huge dose of empathy which is the ability to share and understand the reality and/or feelings of the other.

You can do it!

#agile #romance