#5amMesterScrum Show 644 Live - Goals Keys to Enjoyment - Today's topic: (1) Goals are keys to enjoying what we do from a personal, team and corporate perspective. Goals based on metrics are not Goals and they do not create passion and enjoyment. Sprint Goals help create product to review with the customer, increase velocity is not a goal. OKRs help build goals for the future, like automating old testing routines or codes, so we can problem solve new fun things or challenges. Please like and sub...
Jul 29, 2021•9 min•Ep. 645
#5amMesterScrum Show 643 Live - Agile Specifications and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) - Today's topic: (1) How to Rethink creating documentation and not in a waterfall way? How old documentation signature process and assembly of release documentation has to 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 #5amMesterScrum #scrum #agile #business #scrummaster #agilecoach #coaching #phila...
Jul 29, 2021•15 min•Ep. 644
#5amMesterScrum Show 642 Live - Asking people Why they Missed Daily Scrum How and Why, New Training on Jira and Azure in the works, Fortune Cookie Friday - Today's topics: (1) Updates: I'm going to develop a Jira and Azure Master Class Training and I finished the interview with Karim Harbott on his new book, so watch in two weeks for that, (2) Asking people Why they Missed Daily Scrum for a day or a few days, How to ask and why you should, and (3) Fortune Cookie Friday Nothing Happens unless fir...
Jul 28, 2021•14 min•Ep. 643
#5amMesterScrum Show 641 Live - Deeper and Darker Hole, A Story about Working - Today's topic: (1) Someone shared a poem, but I could not find it so I wrote a story about walking down the street and falling into a deep dark hole. 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 #agilecoach #coaching #philadelphia #philly #retro #retrospective #chang...
Jul 27, 2021•5 min•Ep. 642
#5amMesterScrum Show 640 Live - Two Ideas Getting People Involved in Retrospectives - Today's topic: (1) A Scrum master I'm coach came up with a Great idea (a) to have different people on the team supply an ice breaker for the retro. This gets everyone involve besides the Scrum Master. (b) Then at one of my sessions some one suggested theme music during idea generation, so I thought of idea (a) and combined it some now I have 2 different people contributing to the retro environment. Please like ...
Jul 27, 2021•9 min•Ep. 641
#5amMesterScrum Show 639 Live - Its Not About Your Team, Enterprise Coaching Mistake - Today's topic: (1) So I'm coaching on a trend I was seeing across multiple teams and right away a scrum master said that was about their team and tried explaining. In my head came the song from Carly Simon "You're so Vain, you probably think this son is about you", but it was not that team. My mistake was not preping the scrum master enough for group discussion. There is a big difference in enterprise vs. team...
Jul 26, 2021•11 min•Ep. 640
#5amMesterScrum Show 638 Live - As Scrum Master Resist Moving Cards on the Boards for Teams - Today's topic: (1) If someone on your team says: I did not know I could move something or didn't know if they could move items across the board, then it is time for one-on-one screen share calls so you can see what they see. Don't support Bad Habits. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. 5am Mester Scrum #5amMester...
Jul 25, 2021•11 min•Ep. 639
#5amMesterScrum Show 637 Live - Group vs. Team, Scrum in Name Only vs. Real Team and Fortune Cookie Friday - Today's topics: (1) I was reading about groups vs. teams and I want to clear the air on Scrum "Teams" vs a Scrum "Group" and there is a big difference. Scrum Groups happen a lot in transformations in the corporate world, and (2) Fortune Cookie Friday: Not having a goal is more to be feared than not reaching one. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topic...
Jul 24, 2021•13 min•Ep. 638
#5amMesterScrum Show 636 Live - Micro Reviews vs Sprint Reviews and why you want them - Today's topic: (1) Micro Reviews during the Sprint to create mini feedback loops, what are they, what is their value and how do they differ from the Sprint Review.. 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 #agilecoach #coaching #philadelphia #philly #spri...
Jul 23, 2021•11 min•Ep. 637
#5amMesterScrum Show 635 Live - 15 Minute Sprint Planning, it is possible and adds Value - Today's topic: (1) I have a team that are now exceeding my 30 minute goal for Sprint Planning Part A and now doing 15 minute planning sessions with stakeholders. It is all about prep, but my job as an agile coach does not stop there. The Great Thing is that the Customer and Stakeholders are available to see what Value the team will be work on the next Sprint. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterSc...
Jul 22, 2021•10 min•Ep. 636
#5amMesterScrum Show 634 Live - Self-Correcting Teams are the Level Above Self-Organizing Teams - Today's topic: (1) We were riding on a new bike path and noticed the cement people put in handicap ramps on one part of the corner but not the other. Brand new street curbs, but of 1,000's of new curbs and no one questioned the design. A self correcting team would have questioned the design and changed it on the fly or at least after letting the Product Owner know the problem Please like and subscri...
Jul 21, 2021•9 min•Ep. 635
#5amMesterScrum Show 633 Live - Agile Military very Self-Organized, Free 5 Coaching spots for Veterans and Fortune Cookie Holiday - Today's topics: (1) Today's Military are great examples of how a self-organizing team should be and Veterans would be a great add to any team or company, (2) On this Memorial Day I'm offering 5 free Coaching spots for the normal 6 month program, and (3) Fortune Cookie Friday Memorial Day edition: Poverty is no disgrace. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterS...
Jul 20, 2021•12 min•Ep. 634
#5amMesterScrum Show 632 Live - Business Agility and Creating Space to Allow it to Happen - Today's topic: (1) Karim Harbott has a new book coming out the 6 Enablers of Business Agility and we get to interview him, So in preparation I wanted to share my thoughts of Business agility: (a) having Space to React and (b) Ability to Make Fast Decisions. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. 5am Mester Scrum #5amM...
Jul 20, 2021•9 min•Ep. 633
#5amMesterScrum Show 631 Live - Getting to Market vs. Waiting for Perfection - Today's topic: (1) Watching the Osprey yesterday reminded me about companies that wait to release product to the customer while their competition is taking their customers. 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 #agilecoach #coaching #philadelphia #philly #marke...
Jul 19, 2021•4 min•Ep. 632
#5amMesterScrum Show 630 Live - Scrum Masters at Daily Scrum Give Up the Share, Have each Team Member share their screen - Today's topic: (1) Getting people to be participative at daily scrum is sometimes difficult, so why not give each person the sharing rights for the Daily Scrum virtual video? 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 #agi...
Jul 18, 2021•5 min•Ep. 631
#5amMesterScrum Show 629 Live - Coaching Conflict a Rough Place to Be, but Necessary At Times - Today's topic: (1) As a consultant I hear all the time just make the client happy or the customer is sensitive, the problem as a coach is that something there is a mental struggle to work through, just like your health instructor pushing you with extra sit ups or extra mile. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. ...
Jul 17, 2021•7 min•Ep. 630
#5amMesterScrum Show 628 Live - Product Owner Mastery - Today's topic: (1) Leveraging out the 5 Things a Scrum Master can do to make their Product Owner look Good, with two Things for the Product Owner to Master. a) Micro Reviews and b) Being Happy with building smaller pieces of work or stories with value 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 #scrumm...
Jul 16, 2021•5 min•Ep. 629
#5amMesterScrum Show 627 Live - Five (5) Things you can Do to not Let your Product Owner Look Bad - Today's topic: (1) Scrum Masters forget a lot that they also have to help coach their Product Owners look good and we talk a) Prioritization, b) Clean the Board early, c) Be honest on Stories not getting completed, d) Definition of Ready and e) Definition of Done. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. 5am Mes...
Jul 15, 2021•11 min•Ep. 628
#5amMesterScrum Show 626 Live - #Goals & #OKRs not Normal and Fortune Cookie Friday - Today's topics: (1) People keep suggesting that their Goals are to meet the commitment or service a customer, well business as usual is not a Goal and Definitely not an #OKR and (2) Fortune Cookie Friday: Never set the tiger free if you live in the mountain. This one was interesting. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharin...
Jul 15, 2021•14 min•Ep. 627
#5amMesterScrum Show #625 Live - Micro Reviews or Feedback Loops and Stable Teams producing Bigger and Better Fruit - Today's topics: (1) I was creating a Mural Template for a OKR workshop and showed the in work product to stakeholders and got great feedback that saved lots of time and (2) Allowing teams to stabilize for more than a year produces better fruit just like our strawberry plants. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great P...
Jul 14, 2021•8 min•Ep. 626
#5amMesterScrum Show #624 Live - Update Briefs vs. Working Software - Today's topics: (1) I was sitting in on an update brief thinking to myself what a waste. I don't understand why people don't invite stakeholders to the Sprint Review and show software. I have done it that way for 30 years, even if it was a snap shot of the product in the 1990's. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. 5am Mester Scrum #5amM...
Jul 13, 2021•9 min•Ep. 625
#5amMesterScrum Show #623 Live - 3Cs of Daily Scrum and Why Daily Scrum? - Today's topics: (1) Why Daily Scrum? Because emails and texts lose the need level for help, and (2) the 3C's of the Daily Scrum borrowed from Ron Jeffries' 3C's of a story from 2001. The Card, Conversation and Confirmation. 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 #ag...
Jul 13, 2021•11 min•Ep. 624
#5amMesterScrum Show #622 Live - Coaching Mistakes: Wanting Something that the Team might Not - Today's topic: (1) I make lots of mistakes and I hope to share them from time to time. My latest mistake is wanting something that my coachee or teams might not. When you find yourself in this spot, it might be time to take your foot off the gas pedal for a bit. Time to do some self-realization? Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Ple...
Jul 12, 2021•6 min•Ep. 623
#5amMesterScrum Show #621 Live - Bring Value to the Customer the Scrum Master Iceberg - Today's topic: (1) I'm always asked what does a Scrum Master do? My 1st response is that more than just run scrum ceremonies. What they should be doing is all the stuff that is not visible and they should be challenging helping the teams and organization grow. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. 5am Mester Scrum #5amMe...
Jul 11, 2021•13 min•Ep. 622
#5amMesterScrum Show #620 Live - #Customer #Change and #Agile Mindset & Fortune Cookie Friday - Today's topics: (1) 6am example of the Customer changing their mind midway to Sunrise and (2) Fortune Cookie Friday: Nothing in the world is accomplished without passion. Shout Out #Podcast Thank you for your Passion in #Nebraska #Virginia #Texas #Spain #Ghana #Egypt #India Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharin...
Jul 10, 2021•13 min•Ep. 621
#5amMesterScrum Show #619 Live - Logs and Notes, Good Tips to support your #Agile #Coaching Journey and #UAT Sprints good or bad How about get it Done in an Hour? - Today's topics: (1) Just sharing a good practice of logging experience for future #agile coaching programs and (2) I was watching Agile for Humans yesterday and they spoke about how evil UAT testing is as a gate and I would agree, but I have different take. Bringing UAT into a Sprint is a Great Shift Left journey for you and I share ...
Jul 09, 2021•9 min•Ep. 620
#5amMesterScrum Show #617 Live - #Agile #Coaching is Like Playing Chess and Visualizing 5 Moves Ahead - Today's topic: (1) Agile coaching is not necessarily solving the problem in front, but how can we use the problem in front of us to learn an agile #mindset. What agile tools and concepts can be applied to come up with a more robust solution?. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. 5am Mester Scrum #5amMest...
Jul 08, 2021•10 min•Ep. 619
#5amMesterScrum Show #617 Live - Free Team Agile Coaching Experiment for One Month - Today's topic: (1) I wanted to try an experiment as I see lots of self starting agile teams or small businesses trying agile and stumbling along. I wanted to offer a free month of coaching for a team or organization with intro training to the agile mindset, ceremony coaching and individual coaching. The only ask is that I can record the sessions for sharing. The organization gets first view and permission on rel...
Jul 08, 2021•4 min•Ep. 618
#5amMesterScrum Show #616 Live - Coach Managers or Bust - Today's topics: (1) Short show just saying how if you don't coach your team's managers in an agile mindset you are not really going to get far in a transformation. 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 #agilecoach #coaching #philadelphia #philly #manager #leaders #managers #mindset...
Jul 07, 2021•6 min•Ep. 617
#5amMesterScrum Show #615 Live - A Real Good Scrum and Fortune Cookie Friday - Today's topics: (1) Yesterday I got to experience a real good daily scrum and I thought it would be nice to share it and how they got there or why I think they got there and (2) Fortune Cookie Friday: Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value to its scarcity. This was a tough one. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. 5am Me...
Jul 06, 2021•16 min•Ep. 616
