During the 2017 Heart of Agile Conference in Pittsburgh, Savannah Rayat gave a presentation called “Enhancing your life with Personal Agility”. During the session she explained how she has applied some basic Agile practices from Scrum and Kanban to refine and focus her approach to life, deciding what is most important to her, and managing teams. Savannah has also applied Agile in other non-IT areas. During the interview, we talk about some of the Scrum practices she has applied in working with her team of Realtors.

Show Notes

00:10 - Interview Begins

00:52 - Background on Savannah

01:42 - How Day-Trading fits in with being a Realtor/IT Professional

02:15 - How Savannah defines Personal Agility

04:44 - Savannah’s approach to Personal Kanban and her issue with deadlines

05:31 - The important of setting and maintaining WIP Limits

07:06 - Reducing your WIP to 3-4

10:00 - Preventing the backlash of cutting stuff our of your life

12:15 - Having affection for your interests

12:42 - Deciding what you can live without

14:29 - Long term and short term road mapping

15:48 - Savannah’s Day to Day practice of Agile

18:50 - The need for slack

21:35 - The benefits of self-reflection and coping with the guilt of doing unplanned stuff

23:16 - Making the time for Personal Kanban

24:19 - Accountability Partners

25:33 - How to get started with using Personal Agility

27:44 - How Savannah uses Scrum to support collaboration on her Real Estate team

32:38 - Getting in touch with Savannah

34:39 - Interview Ends

Contacting Savannah

on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/savannah-rayat-8942b8120/

on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SavannahRayat

Savannah’s Realty site: http://rayatrealtygroup.com

Savannah’s Heart of Agile 2017 http://heartofagile.com/Session/enhancing-your-life-with-personal-agility/