Chapter 18

Scrum for Life Goals

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Building financial independence

Bullet Achieving weight-loss goals

Bullet Maintaining life balance and wellness

Bullet Planning your family vacation

Bullet Achieving as a student

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

— HENRY DAVID THOREAU, WALDEN

The universal applicability of scrum is more than likely starting to become clear by now. Scrum is simple enough to be applied to any business or personal goal and adaptable enough to work for any important project you want to address.

Everyone has goals in life that end up feeling too big and too distant to approach. The best part of scrum is taking the overwhelming and breaking it into manageable pieces.

Getting to Retirement

The reality of life is that a time will come when you’ll no longer be able to work full-time. But retirement can be defined as any time you reach enough financial freedom that your passive income — the ...

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