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Monthly Method Podcast is a show for solopreneurs, creators, and artists who have a burning desire to launch a project. The project your best life depends on.
Your host, Polina Bee, is a certified SCRUM master. She brings a proven record of launching successful projects, both professional and personal.
You will hear about tested techniques that lead to calm, consistency and results.
Subscribe to turn your idea into reality one month at a time.
And of course I did not hit record.
I just thought that I recorded the
most wonderful message, but I didn't.
So guys, I just wanted to pop on here and
tell you that the enrollment for the focus
room, October Sprint is closing tomorrow.
The focus room is my.
Private membership.
that's where we do our sprints
together, live on the same schedule.
I'm the one who is hosting all the
calls, sprint planning, sprint review.
all the coworking sessions, I'm the
one who's running it, and that's
the place where I share my most
UpToDate practices, my innovations,
improvements to the system.
podcasts and YouTube tend to be outdated
in terms of what I'm currently doing
and what you see on those platforms
there is a lag and I usually don't
have time to record everything that
is happening and all my improvements.
So if you want the most UpToDate agile
system when it comes to managing your own.
Projects and you want to apply the
same successful principles of Agile
to your own non-tech projects,
that's the place where we do it.
We follow the traditional
rituals of Agile and Scrum, but
I've adapted them to be more.
Applicable to the rest of us
who do not work in tech, but the
philosophy and mindset is the same.
I, I am the one who is hosting all
the calls, the sprint planning,
sprint review, coworking calls.
So on Friday we have our
sprint planning call.
That's where I take you through
the sprint planning process and
set the goals for the sprint.
our sprint is three weeks, so you create.
A one page document that you can
print out, you can convert it into
a scru board and I'll show you how.
And then we have a three week sprint.
We meet twice a week.
Tuesdays and Thursdays
for, coworking session.
That's something that I've
borrowed from my grad school.
I was invited to a secret
writing group in grad school.
It was formed by a bunch of
professors who've realized that all
the admin work, all the coursework.
was so distracting and it was taken
away from their most important
job, which is doing research.
when you're a professor, that's
ultimately what you're being compensated
and rewarded for but the environment
around you is going against it.
So they were proactive.
They formed this secret right end
group where they would get together.
Lock the doors, ban emails and messages
and just focus on doing research, on doing
the writing, on doing literature review.
And that was their life savings solution.
That's where they were able, to do their.
Meaningful work, and that's where
I was able to write most of my
dissertation when I was in grad school.
So I took the same approach and
brought it into the focus room.
Twice a week we meet, we lock the
doors, turn down all the distractions,
and we focus on our sprint goals.
The things that we think are the most
important or the one that will take us
forward, in the direction we want to go.
So, that's happening in life.
It's not prerecorded because.
Well, let's be honest.
Who shows up for those things?
if it's not live, I don't think
that people would show up.
So that's why we are doing them live.
We also have members who schedule
their own, working sessions and
invite other people to join.
that was something that we've created
a few months ago, and it's been
wonderful because I'm physically not
able to host a lot of those calls
with me running, my camping business.
I'm on the road a lot.
I, I have other responsibilities,
so I cannot be in front of my
computer doing this, hosting this,
coworking sessions all the time.
But I'm glad that other people.
are ready to take on this
responsibility, as a byproduct,
they also create a space for other
members to join and do their work.
And then at the end of the sprint,
we have the sprint review call.
the focus room is the place where
you create a custom tailored,
system that works for you.
For your character, personality,
constraints limitations, , your
number of kids, for your commitments.
And the sprint retrospective is
when we actually do this tailoring.
We run an experiment throughout
three weeks and then we.
Join together again, live all
of us on the same call, review
what the hell just happened and
we draw some valuable lessons.
the more I do this kind of
work, the more I realize that.
We are in the point of our lives.
I think like if you are above 30 years
of age, you have some experience,
the most insightful lessons are not
found out there in the books, in
the lessons and in the lectures.
It's found inside.
That's our own.
Reflection, conclusion, our own,
opinions, but our modern life robs
us for the opportunity to stop and
reflect and really decide what we
value, where we want to go next.
And the sprint retrospectives
is kind of like this forced.
Moment where we stop and reflect,
the members of the focus room,
agree that it's, it's kind of like
it's the most overlooked practice.
it's the one that you can justify.
Not going for , but if you show up, it's
the most important part of the sprint
When you force yourself to stop and
reflect on the last three weeks and
what worked and what didn't, the
insights, the lessons that you take from
that, it beats any book, any lecture,
any TED Talk, I can guarantee that.
And that's the most applicable to you.
and then we have a cool off week because
the cool off week is, well, you'll
learn more about the cool off week if
you join and then we repeat all over.
the beauty is that you can cancel if you
don't like it during the first print.
You don't have to stay.
we are very chill when it comes to that.
We are not the productivity
rah, rah rah kind of group.
calm.
Sane, sustainable, down to earth,
rational, and respectful to yourself.
So yeah, we are not gonna
be doing rah rah, rah.
Productivity, dances around you.
That's not gonna happen.
It's a very different kind of life.
yeah, if you are up for it, if you
want the environment that is curated
to encourage you to do the meaningful
work, not to do everything on your to-do
list, to choose the meaningful and show
up daily for that meaningful work and
be done with it at the end of the day.
Not like fully done, but be done with
your daily practice, daily work, and
then show up for it again the next day.
if you're tired of all this loud.
productivity noise out there, and you
want something different, come join us
. we'll be here for you, this Friday during
our sprint planning call, and that's
why the enrollment ends on Thursday.
If you're interested, come join us.
The link will be in the description.