About 5 years ago, my project manager at Fidelity asked my coworker and I to attend a class in North Carolina so we could be a pilot Agile project team. The class they were running was for becoming certified Scrum Masters, so that’s what we became. It’s been a long time since that training, or at least it feels that way. My coworker and I were laid off, I got rehired into a different business unit and a few years ago I accepted a retirement package offer and moved to Europe to live in a castle.
No, wait, I got another job, my “post-career career”. I’m still immersed in websites and giving users the best experience we can. And still working with or adjacent to Agile Scrum Teams.
At our last Quarterly planning meeting I said “I should have my son write an Agile Song” for the next quarterly planning meeting. Which starts tomorrow.
Behold the song I created with my son. I wrote the lyrics, and he did everything else including re-organizing them, making a couple of changes, and blowing me the heck away. The last time we did this, we wrote the song “The Big W” about “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World” and I won’t pick favorites, I love them equally.
The song will eventually be available on Apple Music, Amazon Music and others, probably under the band name “Just Ducky” so Mike won’t have to sully his Outlyer brand with weird songs his mother wrote.
Spotify Link! https://open.spotify.com/track/0YPV6jllu0ZcJPqNJui3y9?si=5e6714214c0e4e05
Or listen at https://www.bigdumptruck.com/agile-song/
(And The Big W is here.)
