I don't know how much you know about Scrum, but it's the development framework we use at CCP. In a nutshell, Scrum breaks big projects down into backlogs of features, and a team of developers takes ownership of individual features in the backlog and turns them into something functional. It's the development equivalent of cutting your steak into bites before you eat it. The emphasis is on delivery of features — it lets you deliver iterations that work in some capacity or another, rather than heading toward a given date and having something incomplete when that date arrives.

This morning, as I was up preparing Madeleine's breakfast, she was watching Special Agent Oso, which is a very ugly cartoon about a talking dog that solves kids' problems. It solves these problems by breaking the issue down into "three special steps," and then singing a song as it performs the steps. There I was, at 7:15 this morning, pureeing a banana, a strawberry, and some yogurt, when it dawned on me that this magical raccoon spy uses the same development structure that I do. Obviously, it's not quite as simplistic as that, but the parallels exist. It reminds me of the time when I realized that most of my political outlooks are similar to those of various Batman villains.

Of course, fatherhood means that kid preferences take precedence over those of big people, and Madeleine genuinely enjoys Oso. Presumably, I will one day be able to tell her that Oso and I have similar jobs. I probably won't tell her that I campaigned for Ra's al Ghul.