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The Secret to Beating the February Slump: An Agile Approach to Personal Productivity

How is your February going? Let me guess. When you go to a gym, it’s less busy. There is less activity on productivity subreddits. Your YouTube feed stopped recommending goal-setting content. Atomic Habits is gone from Amazon’s recommendations list.  It’s a clear sign that New Year’s resolutions are dead.  Why do New Year’s resolutions die?  …

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Applying Agile to New Year’s Resolutions – Part 3

Welcome to the final Part 3 of the New Year’s Resolutions series. Today we’ll discuss finalizing your New Year’s goals and resolutions using the remaining Scrum principles. Recap of our progress so far Let’s recap where we are. We’ve gone through Part 1 and Part 2 of this series. So far, we’ve done the review …

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Applying Agile to New Year’s Resolutions – Part 2

Welcome to Part 2 of Applying Agile to New Year’s Resolutions! Let’s discuss how you can apply agile concepts of sprints, sprint capacity, and backlog review to setting up your goals. Problem #1: A year is too long. You don’t feel a sense of urgency when you set a goal for the year. And without …

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Applying Agile to New Year’s Resolutions – Part 1

It’s that time of year when a lot of us are thinking about new year’s resolutions. I think it’s a wonderful opportunity to think about next year. But there are some common problems that I see with the traditional way of setting new year’s goals. I decided to dedicate the rest of December to addressing …

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