Practice 02 · Agile Families™My Story
The sprint that changed everything.
In 2015, our son Achilles was four and non-verbal. We started ABA therapy. I was fully dedicated to his care — navigating appointments, assessments, and the kind of uncertainty no parent is prepared for.
Later, when I began my career as an Agile Master in IT, I started to see the parallels. The frameworks I was using to help teams deliver under pressure — sprints, Kanban, retrospectives, visual management — were exactly what I had been missing at home. So I started applying them. A Kanban board for therapy schedules. Four-week sprints for Achilles' goals — mirroring his monthly therapy consultations where we'd set new targets, train as parents, and review progress. Retrospectives to assess what was working and what wasn't. Something shifted — not because the methods were magic, but because they gave us structure that could flex, visibility where there had been fog, and a way to make decisions without drowning in emotion.
Agile Families™ started where most good frameworks start — not in theory, but in a real team solving a real problem. Our family needed a system that could hold complexity without collapsing under it. We built one. Then I realised other families needed it too.