#5amMesterScrum Show #584 Live - Business Continuity Scrum April Fools Edition - Today's topics: (1) Business Continuity is Scrum by Definition. Future Scrum Master (actually SEPTA Driver) Eddie gives his take on business continuity and pranks everyone. I'm training my replacement for future business continuity. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. 5am Mester Scrum #5amMesterScrum #scrum #agile #business #...
Jun 12, 2021•9 min•Ep. 585
#5amMesterScrum Show #583 Live - Project Behind Before Start when you hear We can Work Overtime and HR Fail. In Agile consistent is not OT or weekends - Today's topics: (1) I did the base rate calculation when your boss asks for a few more hours to get a project down or when Project managers say we will do what we have to to get it done on time - both indications the project is miss managed and (2) HR Fail - where team works 7 days / 24 hours and 8 of 10 people leave, they then hire 20 people to...
Jun 11, 2021•17 min•Ep. 584
#5amMesterScrum Show #582 Live - Knowing Best is Wrong! and Tasking Work for other is short term thinking and long term LOSS - Today's topics: (1) Know what is Best will not necessarily get the Best Creative Solution (Daughter spelling Dad in the picture, I would have never have thought that) and (2) Tech leaders, Product Owners or Scrum Masters tasking work out for the team is short term thinking which will become a long term LOSS of your valuable time. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMe...
Jun 10, 2021•10 min•Ep. 583
#5amMesterScrum Show #581 Live - Story of Young Stone Mason and the Growth Mindset - Today's topics: (1) So the others day I was talking with a Young Stone Mason and he shared his work over and above his day job, an Entrepreneur. He was of the Growth Mindset!. It reminded me of two LinkedIn posts about overtime and corporate funded education and being of a fixed mindset. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing...
Jun 10, 2021•10 min•Ep. 582
#5amMesterScrum Show #580 Live - Short-term Coaching Contract Impacts, observations for #HR people - Today's topics: (1) Getting up early, Dog is tired from getting up and chasing squirrels, my kid earned $ for cutting my hair and all before 8am and (2) A consistent question I got from meeting with all the managers and scrum masters, How long are you going to be here? I realized these short term coaching engagements are destroying the morale of the organizations. HR needs to step-up and do at le...
Jun 09, 2021•11 min•Ep. 581
#5amMesterScrum Show #579 Live - Definition of Done Journey Annotated Agenda and Fortune Cookie Friday - Today's topics: (1) Walking through my thoughts on how I might go through a Definition of Done DoD session with a new agile team and (2) Fortune Cookie Friday: Share your happiness with others today. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. 5am Mester Scrum #5amMesterScrum #scrum #agile #business #scrummast...
Jun 08, 2021•13 min•Ep. 580
#5amMesterScrum Show #578 Live - Micro vs. Macro Changes and setting yourself up for a bunch of excuses Why they Don't Improve - Today's topic: (1) Debating the pros and cons of having a central group investigate process improvement and the bad habit that creates for all your teams that you now have to deprogram later. . Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. 5am Mester Scrum #5amMesterScrum #scrum #agile #b...
Jun 08, 2021•6 min•Ep. 579
#5amMesterScrum Show #577 Live - PM Myth Cost & Time Variable Just Annoys the Heck Out of Me - Today's topic: (1) I'm tired of Agile and Project Management people selling this stuff that Cost and Time (schedule) are variable in Project Management and Scope is fixed. If you believe that two things will happen that is truth (unless the customer is desperate or you have a monopoly) (1) the Customer will not buy from your company and (2) sooner or later you get fired or find a new job. . Please ...
Jun 07, 2021•13 min•Ep. 578
#5amMesterScrum Show #576 Live - DoR The Best Ice Breaker, Don't start with Team Norms - Today's topic: (1) Definition of Ready DoR is one of the Best Ice Breaker discussions for new scrum masters and agile coaches, because everyone can contribute and people love to tell what things slow them down. It is easier to unite on this as a team. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. 5am Mester Scrum #5amMesterScru...
Jun 06, 2021•7 min•Ep. 577
#5amMesterScrum Show #575 Live - Secret Daily Scrum 5th Question That no one Tells You About- Today's topics: (1) So No one told you about the 4th and Secret 5th Questions for your Daily Scrum did they? Hint 4th question is Vacation related and the 5th is Systems Thinking or water cooler chat. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. 5am Mester Scrum #5amMesterScrum #scrum #agile #business #scrummaster #agilec...
Jun 05, 2021•8 min•Ep. 576
#5amMesterScrum Show #574 Live - Sleeping in Sucks and so does Delaying Transformations - Today's topics: (1) I realized yesterday that sleeping in sucks. If I get up early I get 3 hours of quite time vs. like on 1 or 2 hours maybe in the evening, plus people don't ask you to do stuff in the morning (it is all yours) and (2) Delaying Transformations also suck because delaying will never get you there and there is always something happening and filling in that space. Please like and subscribe and...
Jun 04, 2021•7 min•Ep. 575
#5amMesterScrum Show #573 Live - Racing Cars, Big Box Store Needs Agile and Fortune Cookie Friday - Today's topics: (1) My son said here Dad take these cars for your show. So I did and the pitstop is like scrum, a team of people working on one goal at same time, (2) I was in a Big Box Store just thinking how they need agile training especially kanban. They had unhappy customers and were losing thousands in revenue. Agile example in non-IT world talking 36 years ago and how I was practicing agile...
Jun 03, 2021•12 min•Ep. 574
#5amMesterScrum Show #572 Live - Definition of Ready Wireframe Agenda created Live - Today's topic: (1) I'm building an interactive self-organized set of meetings on Team Norms, Definition of Ready (DoR) and Definition of Done (DoD) and I wanted to sketch out the vision and agenda in a wireframe concept before I create the whiteboard space. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. 5am Mester Scrum #5amMesterSc...
Jun 03, 2021•9 min•Ep. 573
#5amMesterScrum Show #571 Live - Happy St. Paddy's Day - Agile HR Annual Review - Today's topics: (1) Instead of managers and agile experts determining Agile Team or individual promotion or bonus measures, why not ask the team what they think they should be. Now wouldn't that be interesting? Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. 5am Mester Scrum #5amMesterScrum #scrum #agile #business #scrummaster #agilecoa...
Jun 02, 2021•8 min•Ep. 572
#5amMesterScrum Show #570 Live - Growing Mind lots of tools & PIP (PI Planning) Mistakes - Today's topics: (1) Reading a good book "Agile Coaching" by Rachel Davies and Liz Sedley as a part of my Growth Mindset and I highly recommend for new agile coaches and (2) PIP outcomes and mistakes: Dependencies and managers. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. 5am Mester Scrum #5amMesterScrum #scrum #agile #bu...
Jun 01, 2021•15 min•Ep. 571
#5amMesterScrum Show #569 Live - Smile and Letting Go - Today's topics: (1) I ask my daughter how her test went on Friday and her response "It was easy, it was fill in the oval!" In my mind I'm singing Let it Go! and (2) Just experiencing the journey with your team by letting them run the show. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. 5am Mester Scrum #5amMesterScrum #scrum #agile #business #scrummaster #agile...
Jun 01, 2021•5 min•Ep. 570
#5amMesterScrum Show #568 Live - Coaching Conversation Uncomfortable y Start Small with Corporate Transformations - Today's topics: (1) Co-Hosting my ICAgile class conducting coaching conversation drills and how it is uncomfortable sometimes going straight into it and (2) Starting small with transformations verse overwhelming people with change. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. 5am Mester Scrum #5amMes...
May 31, 2021•9 min•Ep. 569
#5amMesterScrum Show #567 Live - Doing Agile, Corp Style - Today's topic: (1) Reading an article by Stacey Ackerman - Is you company culturally ready to transform? I would ask is your transformation corporate style where you buy a bunch of tools recommended by consultants but have no idea why you need them or what is agile mindset vs. agile framework which is two different things. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep ...
May 30, 2021•13 min•Ep. 568
#5amMesterScrum Show #566 Live - CEO Agile Mindset and Fortune Cookie Friday - Today's topics: (1) An Agile Mindset CEO making decisions to build trust and lead, but they need an agile company to do that and (2) Fortune Cookie Friday: Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. 5am Mester Scrum #5amMesterScrum #scrum #agile #busines...
May 29, 2021•10 min•Ep. 567
#5amMesterScrum Show #565 Live - Kids, Cereal and Learning Themselves and Using Baseball to explain how to manage Priorities - Today's topics: (1) The classic telling people what to do an why, but they still need to fail and learn and (2) Using Baseball to help organizations to manage priorities and work and to keep the focus on what is at hand. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. 5am Mester Scrum #5amMes...
May 28, 2021•13 min•Ep. 566
#5amMesterScrum Show #564 Live - Big Vision to make small things smaller and Agile Coach Metrics - Today's topics: (1) Big Vision and the desire to go to the Moon vs. yell at the guy on the Roof for waking you up and (2) Agile Coaching metrics, just some ideas that could be shared with your client or managers. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. 5am Mester Scrum #5amMesterScrum #scrum #agile #business #sc...
May 27, 2021•11 min•Ep. 565
#5amMesterScrum Show #563 Live - Why Bother Asking? and Done v. Hrs. a different way to hire contractors - Today's topics: (1) Why Bother Asking? A question I encounter all the time. For me it was why bother signing up for a shot? They will never pick me. Then looking at the original train why bother pushing past a stage coach? and (2) Hire consultant companies and pay by the hour vs. by work done. Paying by hour is so not agile. Done is a better measure or a combo. Please like and subscribe and...
May 26, 2021•11 min•Ep. 564
#5amMesterScrum Show #562 Live - Mindset, Safety and Mistakes - Today's topics: (1) An agile mindset is not the guy about to come down on a few roofers because they started work at 7:30am and they woke you up. So now you want them fired. How does a Agile Leader think? and (2) Building that Safety Mindset as a Leader so people bring issues, concerns and ideas to Leadership without fear of creating an RGE (a Resume Generating Event) Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send m...
May 25, 2021•13 min•Ep. 563
#5amMesterScrum Show #561 Live - Agile Perfection or No Go - Today's topics: (1) Deep conversation today after watching video on Visualizing Success and the speakers mention of the Wright Brothers on their 1st flight for 12 seconds. Was it perfect? No! But it was a start to something amazing. Heck Yes! First Flight F/A-18E/F in 1995. Same goes with Agile Transformation, Big Corp Consultants want to do everything at once and they forget about things like essential SAFe or simple and practical ide...
May 25, 2021•13 min•Ep. 562
#5amMesterScrum Show #560 Live - I Can't Get People To Do What I Say? Kind of like Cats? Plus 5 more openings in coaching - Today's topics: (1) I hear all the time I'm going to tell management what I'm going to suggest to the team the solution. By the wat that is not self organizing nor is it Scrum, and (2) Opening up 5 spots for coaching. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. 5am Mester Scrum #5amMesterScr...
May 24, 2021•10 min•Ep. 561
#5amMesterScrum Show #559 Live - Cameras On? , Multi-tasking During Meetings and Fortune Cookie Friday - Today's topics: (1) I caught myself multi-tasking during meetings yesterday, so my questions What is wrong with the meeting design or Is there something else I really should be doing? It is not right not to give attention, and (2) Cameras on - As the agile coach I noticed I was the only one with my camera on and I realized I violated the team's space. I don't think anyone noticed but I realiz...
May 23, 2021•10 min•Ep. 560
#5amMesterScrum Show #558 Live - Check-in/out for you meetings and Team Norms Assembly or Document which is more Important? - Today's topics: (1) Check-in and Check-out are great facilitation tools to help your meeting participants focus and (2) Team Norms and the different times when the assembly is more important when the artifact is. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. 5am Mester Scrum #5amMesterScrum ...
May 22, 2021•13 min•Ep. 559
#5amMesterScrum Show #557 Live - Happy News You Got A New Job, Now what do you Ask? - Today's topic: (1) It has been about two weeks since I started my new consulting position and I wanted to share some real basic communication things that I relearned. I hope they help and please feel free to comment or message me on new job questions. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. 5am Mester Scrum #5amMesterScrum #...
May 21, 2021•6 min•Ep. 558
#5amMesterScrum Show #556 Live - Agility Mindset Makes OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) Easy - Today's topic: (1) Having an Agile Mindset makes creating OKRs easy, as everything screams Business Agility. No wonder why a waterfall organization has so much trouble writing OKRs, as it is against their mindset. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. 5am Mester Scrum #5amMesterScrum #scrum #agile #business #scru...
May 20, 2021•11 min•Ep. 557
#5amMesterScrum Show #555 Live - Scrum Product Owner (PO) Common Practice what is could be and what it is Not - Today's topic: (1) Continuing the topics of Common Practice, I wanted to talk about Product Owner Common practice. What it is and what it is not, so Product Owners spend time on Value Add work. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. 5am Mester Scrum #5amMesterScrum #scrum #agile #business #scrummas...
May 20, 2021•9 min•Ep. 556
