While I was working on my backlog Yesterday, I tried to understand, what kind of project I am?

A maintenance or ongoing project? A fix price, fix date? A time and material? A project with non-defined end-date and a continuous flow of requirements? Or maybe I am a product? A product that is already released and that has now evolving releases? Or do I need to distinguish between me = the product, and my life, the environment of this product, or is my life the product and I am the Product Owner of my life?

I believe, although these questions do have a very philosophical touch, it is important to get them clear for my 10 weeks Scrum work-out. Why? Because they will shape the vision of my 10 Sprints that I can run.

Yes — although I did not have a finished backlog – as you saw Yesterday, I started the first sprint, by selecting a bunch of “project/task” like things. It is not fully clear, what is a task and what is a project, but they are things. Now I need to work — during this week on some of the items, on some of them I will need to understand what they are.

Today, I was able to finish some loops – my book! It is now in print, will be delivered in two weeks and it now I can say it is done! I finished a proposal and got an order based on this proposal, on the same day, and I was able to get one step done in two running loops. Not too bad.

Oh – and I worked on my “work-out” project – I was running 30 min. Very cool!

Unfortunately I also opened a new loop – but I do not need to work on it, right now.

Tomorrow most of my day will be consumed by traveling to Berlin and meeting customers. Maybe I get some things done.