HACKER Q&A
📣 baron816

Anyone run their family like an Agile team?


Anyone have daily standups to keep tabs on what their kids are learning? Use Jira to track progress on school work? Hold retros to have them reflect on how their learning or how projects/studying could have gone better?


  👤 PragmaticPulp Accepted Answer ✓
This sounds awful.

I wouldn’t want to turn normal interactions with my kids into rigid interactions forced into agile format.

The purpose of standups is to go fast and not waste people’s time with friendly, casual conversation. Using that format to engage with your kids is the opposite of how you should be encouraging interactions. You want to get involved and encourage natural discussion.

Jira is useful for tracking things that you’re not involved in and giving reports to higher ups who want to drop in and see progress reports. Again, not the dynamic you want to use with kids.

Just interact with them like normal human beings. Show interest, ask questions, have conversation. Don’t take the things people loathe about forced workplace interactions and make that the dynamic of your family.


👤 Djrichsjdjdnxkd
That’s what dinner time is for.

👤 AndyJado
I got a distributed homeless family talking through API

👤 burntoutfire
Let's not forget about putting kids on the PIP.

👤 bckr
Do you? If so, what is it like?