Summary.
After fifteen years of research on what makes for a happy family, the author stumbled upon a surprising idea: that techniques borrowed from agile development can work just as well for family meetings as they do at work. He recommends a weekly family meeting that is based around just three questions: What worked well in our family this week? What didn’t work well in our family this week? What will we agree to work on this week? This simple framework will help families manage the chaos, get along better, and reduce stress.
At a moment when many families around the world are confined to home, climbing the walls, and are searching desperately for fresh techniques for managing their household chaos, one proven solution that my family, along with many others, uses comes from an unlikely source: agile development.