#5amMesterScrum Show 704 Live - Not Adapting nor Expanding, the story of a little Polish Church or Any Business or Team - Today's topic: (1) So Sunday was the last Mass at my little Polish Church, as there are not enough people going. So how does this mean anything to you, your team or business or Being Agile? 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...
Sep 17, 2021•9 min•Ep. 705
#5amMesterScrum Show 703 Live - McD's Food kiosk software test, watching customers, Classic Why the developers and Product Owners should not operate software in Sprint Review - Today's topic: (1) So Friday the kids and I stopped by McD's for fires and we got the full CX (Customer Experience) of their new kiosk software and I watched another customer just get totally frustrated. It was a prime example why Developers and Product Owners should not test their own software, but let the customer drive...
Sep 16, 2021•10 min•Ep. 704
#5amMesterScrum Show 702 Live - Resist The Urge For 1 More Point before Sprint Close and Fortune Cookie Friday - Today's topic: (1) The is some kind of Urge or Pull the people get obsessed with and that is Geeting Those Few more Points Done at the end of a Sprint. Well Resist It! and (2) Fortune Cookie Friday. 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...
Sep 15, 2021•12 min•Ep. 703
#5amMesterScrum Show 701 Live - Four (4) +1 Secrets to Success that Apply to Scrum - Today's topic: (1) Again I was watching a Leadership video and they said successful people do things they don't like to do, and we are listing 4 Things that make Teams successful in Scrum but they don't like doing. Actually I gave 5 items, since it was live. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. 5am Mester Scrum #5amMesterS...
Sep 14, 2021•11 min•Ep. 702
#5amMesterScrum Show 700 Live - 700th Episode that is quite a few and Fortune Cookie Celebration - Today's topic: (1) Celebrating 700 show with a fortune cookie and the fortune cookie says: Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory. 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 #ph...
Sep 13, 2021•10 min•Ep. 701
#5amMesterScrum Show 699 Live - What is Your Value? As Scrum Master/ As Agile Coach? - Today's topic: (1) I was watching something on bring value to others around you and I thought how do we as scrum masters and agile coaches show how we bring value. This also relates to teh question, when can we drop the scrum master or agile coach? 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 #sc...
Sep 12, 2021•13 min•Ep. 700
#5amMesterScrum Show 698 Live - Daily Scrum Dev Only Attendance, No! and here we go again with the 3 questions - Today's topic: (1) From the 2020 Scrum guide "The daily scrum is a 15 minute event for the developers of the scrum team" Big mistake by non-thinking people that Product Owners, Scrum Masters and even stakeholders should not attend. It is the 3 question screw up all over again. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Pleas...
Sep 11, 2021•13 min•Ep. 699
#5amMesterScrum Show 697 Live - Fortune Cookie Friday, Keeping it Simple - Today's topic: (1) Fortune Cookie Friday and applying it to agile or scrum. Two things came out of today's fortune cookie (1) Diversity is good and (2) Thinking quicker before doing or coding will probably give you a better 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 #5amMesterScrum #scrum #agile #business #scrum...
Sep 10, 2021•6 min•Ep. 698
#5amMesterScrum Show 696 Live - High Performing Teams Velocity is OK but Value is Better - Today's topic: (1) So in Theory the velocity metric can cap out, so I propose a better metric for high performing or any team and that is a metric of value or return on efforts. 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 #philadelph...
Sep 09, 2021•10 min•Ep. 697
#5amMesterScrum Show 695 Live - Over 40hrs a week, is Not a High Performing Team - Today's topic: (1) Contrary to popular belief working over 40 hours in a week to get stuff done in a sprint is NOT the sign of a high performing 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 #5amMesterScrum #scrum #agile #business #scrummaster #agilecoach #coaching #philadelphia #philly #value #team #velocity #...
Sep 08, 2021•9 min•Ep. 696
5amMesterScrum Show 694 Live - Agile Vacation, How applying Agile to our little vacation gave us the Most Value - Today's topic: (1) Keeping our time box short and avoiding a Hurricane to get the most out of our vacation 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 #vacation #value #hurricane #planning...
Sep 07, 2021•11 min•Ep. 695
Guest Host Eddie is like is it 5am and time to do the show. I'm like it sure is. Talking getting together with Family and bringing new software capabilites to the customer. in this case a slight modification to a bar code bracelet at a water park would definitely 10x their revenue. Happy Scrumming 5amMesterScrum Social Media: - search 5amMesterScrum or #5amMesterScrum and you should find us and if not please let us know LinkedIn, Youtube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok Podcasts: (search 5a...
Sep 06, 2021•7 min•Ep. 694
#5amMesterScrum Show 692 Live - Just Linking Epics is Wrong, Don't Stop There in PI or Quarterly Planning - Today's topic: (1) People in many place just do what the framework says and in the case of PI or Large Planning they all say identify dependencies between Epic and teams stop there. Wrong! You need to take it to the story level like SpaceX did with their booster fit check. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on...
Sep 05, 2021•10 min•Ep. 693
#5amMesterScrum Show 691 Live - Don't Stop Keep Going, Job Search and Getting People to Update their Systems - Today's topic: (1) Scrum Masters ask me all the time how long do I have to keep asking people to update the System or Speak at Events? Plus I find my old resume application log book from 1990. 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 #scrummaste...
Sep 04, 2021•8 min•Ep. 692
#5amMesterScrum Show 690 Live - Proposing a Take It Easy Day Event for Scrum - Today's topic: (1) Companies talk Agile and self-organizing a lot, so why not have a take it easy day maybe once every 2 sprints or quarter where the teams can do whatever they want. No planned out briefs on what did they improve during their free day. Give them trust and don't expect anything in return. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep...
Sep 03, 2021•7 min•Ep. 691
#5amMesterScrum Show 689 Live - Attitude Secret of Team and You (a member of the team or Scrum Master) is Important - Today's topic: (1) Watching a video this morning on How "Attitude" is the key to life and I would add is the key to a high performing 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 #5amMesterScrum #scrum #agile #business #scrummaster #agilecoach #coaching #philadelphia #philly #...
Sep 02, 2021•6 min•Ep. 690
#5amMesterScrum Show 688 Live - Sprint (scrum) v Marathon (waterfall) and Fortune Cookie Friday - Today's topics: (1) Recalling the Olympic Games and the Sprinting vs. Marathon and comparing them to Scrum vs. Waterfall. And I ask do you start a sprint without your shoe then why do you start a sprint with unfinished dependencies? and (2) Fortune Cookie Friday Ambition knows no obstacles. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please...
Sep 02, 2021•9 min•Ep. 689
#5amMesterScrum Show 687 Live - Growing Meetings Beyond What they Are Supposed to be or Just Checking a Box for those Agile Accountants - Today's topic: (1) Scrum of Scrum SoS or PO Syncs or Status Meetings all have a tendency to grow in scope. You have to fight against that. So I talk about the practical setup and what to be mindful of especially the time box and what fits. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sha...
Sep 01, 2021•15 min•Ep. 688
5amMesterScrum Show 686 Live - Back to Work Velocity is Going Down, #HR please remind Leaders to take it easy - Today's topic: (1) In continuation of our fun at work series, when people come back to work. Please give them space in the velocity, so they can have re-bond and enjoy it. HR if we don't make the transition better than cold then you will have your work cut out for you. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on...
Aug 31, 2021•8 min•Ep. 687
#5amMesterScrum Show 685 Live - Doing Scrum Fun Wrong, It is Not Supposed to Happen Only in Retros. I propose a New Scrum Event called "Fun Time" - Today's topic: (1) Having fun is supposed to happen throughout a Sprint and not just at the Retrospective. I think Scrum Masters don't do Scrum justice by only having improvement related fun. They should encourage a smaller commitment and more team pure fun time. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are ...
Aug 31, 2021•7 min•Ep. 686
#5amMesterScrum Show 684 Live - OKRs Done Wrong by All, Don't Map every issue to a OKR! - Today's topic: (1) So I was listening to leaders that transform their organizations and they all have something in common. Have Big Goals! OKRs are supposed to be that but big business and consultants are using OKR wrong!. They are not supposed to map to everything you are doing as a company. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep ...
Aug 30, 2021•12 min•Ep. 685
5amMesterScrum Show 683 Live - User Experience (UX) vs Customer Experience (CX) - Today's topic: (1) I think we took the customer meaning out and transferred it into user experience and thereby, lower the bar of satisfaction for the customer. Elevate it to "As the Customer, I want ..So that.." 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...
Aug 29, 2021•7 min•Ep. 684
5amMesterScrum Show 682 Live - Commitment and Handoffs Missed, Philadelphia Cheese Fries and Fortune Cookie Friday - Today's topics: (1) Eddie and I wanted to share some Philadelphia Cheese Fries with Cheese Whiz, (2) Talking missing Commitments and causing issues for otehrs like our hotel stay after the fire and (3) Fortune Cookie Friday: Walk the words you talk and talk the words you walk. A perfect cookie when talking commitments. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please sen...
Aug 28, 2021•11 min•Ep. 683
#5amMesterScrum Show 681 Live - Arguing w/ Customer No Win, Story of a Terrible Hotel Stay - Today's topic: (1) My recent stay at a hotel for just under 3 weeks made me really think about "Customer" experience vs. "User" Experience. Plus a lack of agreement that the systems in place don't always 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 #scrummaster...
Aug 27, 2021•13 min•Ep. 682
#5amMesterScrum Show 680 Live - Common Mistake Not Coaching Managers, Coaching Up! - Today's topic: (1) A common mistake made by agile coaches, scrum masters and even myself is not coaching managers as they need to understand this new thing called Agile and if they don't have time for you then they need coaching even more. 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 ...
Aug 26, 2021•7 min•Ep. 681
#5amMesterScrum Show 679 Live - Tinker with CI/CD, I think it is the wrong area to get Value to the Customer - Today's topic: (1) Organizations spend so much effort on CI/CD or DevOps but is that really the right place to bring value to the customer? 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 #value ...
Aug 26, 2021•11 min•Ep. 680
#5amMesterScrum Show 678 Live - Customer Forefront, Customer Feedback Loops in the Products and Services we Provide - Today's topic: (1) So staying in the hotel due to the house fire, has brought to the forefront the lack of customer feedback loops in our products. We talk feedback in our team design but lack it in our products. We need to fix that. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. 5am Mester Scrum #5a...
Aug 25, 2021•9 min•Ep. 679
#5amMesterScrum Show 677 Live - When is the Scrum Master Not Needed, I hear that all the time - Today's topics: (1) So I hear all the time from managers, when is the scrum master or even agile coach no longer needed, well I see two things scrum master needed to do: 1) Transform themselves into more of a coach and 2) be more transparent about the value they contribute. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. 5...
Aug 24, 2021•7 min•Ep. 678
#5amMesterScrum Show 676 Live - Agile Accountants Strike Again, Agile in Academia and Fortune Cookie Friday - Today's topics: (1) Agile Accountants strike twice: One (agile coach) saying you have to reorganize everything because everyone shall be co-located and the other saying put everything in Jira (Oh No!), (2) Applying agile and scrum to Academia the right way and (3) Fortune Cookie Friday: Its not the size of the dog in the fight, its the size of the fight in the dog. This should be the mot...
Aug 24, 2021•12 min•Ep. 677
#5amMesterScrum Show 675 Live - Scrum Master (SM) Solutions Bad Idea - Today's topic: (1) Scrum Masters should not create solutions for the team and here are at least 3 reasons why.. 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 #solution #ownership #selforganization 5am Mester Scrum Show 675 went live ...
Aug 23, 2021•8 min•Ep. 676
