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A bit delayed with this post, but that's because I've been busy this week. I've been busy with personal development, busy seeing friends (I weird way or wording it, I know - it's not a chore, it's a good thing) and busy singing in a choir! Here's one of the songs we sing... So, I don't think it's a problem that I haven't kept up with process. The whole reason for me living 2017 in a series of sprints was so I could try new stuff and better myself. I feel that I am still doing so. Sprint review It's the same old pattern, I seem to do a lot during the weekend, and forget about my sprints during the week. Again, I feel a lot of this is down to being busy, bettering myself during the week. But a lot of it is also due to being exhausted after a day's work. I wonder if adding smaller tasks (but more of them) to my list will help me spread out the work across the whole two weeks. I will try this with the next sprint. I've do...

So, I'm living agile for a year . It started as a joke to myself but now that I've completed my first 'sprint', I can see the benefit in doing this. It sounds sad, but I have genuinely been more sociable (as in, I've planned  meet ups with friends, rather than just gone along). I've also got more life admin - lifemin  - done, and I've got a better idea of the sorts of tasks I'd like to do in the next couple of weeks. At the end of each sprint, I will write a brief summary. I don't expect people really to read these posts, they're more for my benefit, allowing me to look back over the year to see what I did as the months pass by. I will also write more generally about things I have learned along the way, and will probably share these posts to a wider audience. So without further ado... At the end of Sprint 1, I have: Added an introductory blog post explaining what I'm trying to do this year. This got quite a nice uptake, with over...

"So this is New Year. And what have you done?" I found myself asking this during the long train journey between the capital cities of Scotland and England on Monday 2 January 2017. "Well. I don't know really," I answered. 2016 2016 was a bad year for musicians, actors and global politics, but it was a pretty good year for me. I got myself settled into a new job at Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity . I rode a bike ride to Paris ! There was fun (and board games), I was on TV and I visited 10 Downing Street. 2016. A bad year for global politics, but a pretty good year for me. ...and there was Scrum. I am a man with half a hip, so I'm not talking about Rugby, but instead a "15-minute, timeboxed meeting that allows a sprint team to provide updates and share solutions to problems". Since attending Scrum Master training I've described myself as an "Agile nerd*". I really like that Agile project management a...