I have been working as a software consultant for more than 11 years. Because of that I am an eager supporter of lean principles and agile methods.
I just came back from a guest lecture that I gave in connection to ARKAD, which is (swe. “arbetsmarknandsdagarna”) at LTH in Lund. The title of the speech was
“A 942 Iteration Scrum Project - a lesson in self coaching and agile software project management”
A subject that I have mentioned on the blog before. The idea is to explain scrum by applying it to my family life and by doing so getting an effect of self coaching.
The backlog is my to-do list. The iteration and timebox is my wall calendar. The team is my family. And in these disussion weave in theoretical elements about team size, iteration length, timeboxing, etc. You get some nice effects by doing so and the feedback I got from the listeners was good.