#5amMesterScrum Show #404 Live - An Actual Job posting called the Software Factory and Developing a Partnership with Business - Today's topics: (1) The other day I actual saw a job posting on LinkedIn to work at a "Software Factory", and (2) Listening to Jem Jelly the other day about being over protective of scrum team and sometimes a partnership for success is the better take vs. always saying No. Look for Win Win Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. Y...
Jan 04, 2021•10 min•Ep. 405
#5amMesterScrum Show #403 Live - Big Backlogs are a Mistake, Muscle Memory, Fortune Cookie and a Big Bell - Today's topics: (1) Big Backlogs more than 6 to 7 Sprints is too Long, as things change even in this little show, (2) Muscle Memory needs to be worked in Scrum and in anything you do, as once you stop it get harder to start again and (3) Fortune Cookie Friday on a Tuesday since we missed last week: Don't spend your time stringing and tuning your instrument. Start making music now!. Please ...
Jan 04, 2021•13 min•Ep. 404
#5amMesterScrum Show #402 Live - Some Documentation Needed for Software to Work - Today's topics: (1) Got a new camera but apparently it does not work occasionally if you use the wrong memory chip. Sometime Documentation is critical to have software work. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. #5amMesterScrum #scrum #agile #business #scrummaster #agilecoach #coaching #philadelphia #philly #software #working ...
Jan 03, 2021•6 min•Ep. 403
#5amMesterScrum Show #401 Live - More To A Problem than a Simple Answer - Today's topics: (1) Reflecting Solution and Business Diversity where so many default to the simple solution causing more issues and Diversity of Business and Competition to keep us on our toes. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. #5amMesterScrum #scrum #agile #business #scrummaster #agilecoach #coaching #philadelphia #philly #proble...
Jan 02, 2021•11 min•Ep. 402
#5amMesterScrum Show #400 Live - Agile Leaders Don't Control - Today's topics: (1) Reflecting on our Balloon ride today about Agile Leaders and how the should not try to control people and teams. They should only help the up and over or even through obstacles. Once an agile team is prepared and free the agile leader should just enjoy the ride and watch them produce wonders. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on Shar...
Jan 01, 2021•6 min•Ep. 401
#5amMesterScrum Show #399 Live - Environment Down and Rushing Fake Deadlines - Today's topics: (1) Attempted Ballooning yesterday and the environment was literally down (rain) and we should give ourselves room and (2) Rush Fake Deadlines like Sprint timebox close or fake release dates that are not critical and putting our customers at risk. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. #5amMesterScrum #scrum #agile...
Dec 31, 2020•12 min•Ep. 400
#5amMesterScrum Show #398 Live - Agile Pasta, Ballooning and Giving yourself and Team Time - Today's topics: (1) Using Agile to sell pasta during COVID Close down with options for customer, but don't stop there keep being agile and improve and (2) Going Ballooning and giving yourself and team time before the last day. So many teams wait for the last minute to deliver product in a sprint, leaving themselves no time for flexibility. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send m...
Dec 31, 2020•8 min•Ep. 399
#5amMesterScrum Show #397 Live - Agile Sunflowers, Strawberries and Business Marketing Mindset - Today's topics: (1) Stepping away from the software world and going Agile Business Mindset talking Sunflowers and Strawberries in hydroponics. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. #5amMesterScrum #scrum #agile #business #scrummaster #agilecoach #coaching #philadelphia #philly #marketing #business #customer #mvp...
Dec 30, 2020•5 min•Ep. 398
#5amMesterScrum Show #396 Live - In the Dark talking Agile, Space and MVP - Today's topics: (1) Keeping the show brief and talking how Space uses rental cranes vs. large finished building to deliver Spacecraft to the customer. They are really using MVP and prioritizing work to get product to the customer. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. #5amMesterScrum #scrum #agile #business #scrummaster #agilecoach ...
Dec 30, 2020•6 min•Ep. 397
#5amMesterScrum Show #395 Live - Virtual Agile Networking, Project Management Trigger words and Fortune Cookie Friday - Today's topics: (1) Sharing a bunch of virtual agile groups on meetup, (2) Project Management trigger words I hear from agile coaches and scrum masters like Status, and (3) Fortune Cookie Friday: Big fortunes falls from the sky. Small fortunes comes from saving.. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep ...
Dec 29, 2020•19 min•Ep. 396
#5amMesterScrum Show #394 Live - Marketing Team, What might One Look Like and Sprint Reviews, more than Demo - Today's topics: (1) Reflecting on what a Agile Marketing team would like like, hint it is not traditional, and (2) Sprint Review is not talked about enough and what and who should participate. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. #5amMesterScrum #scrum #agile #business #scrummaster #agilecoach #co...
Dec 29, 2020•14 min•Ep. 395
#5amMesterScrum Show #393 Live - Reuse Saves So Much $ and Middle Management, Don't Leave Them Behind - Today's topics: (1) Just exploring the idea of using SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket reused 9 times because it was architectured for reuse, no excuse why code can't be also, and (2) Middle Management and how so many Agile Transformations skip them. Warning Don't Do It! You have to engage them and I agree I even make the mistake at times. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send m...
Dec 28, 2020•12 min•Ep. 394
#5amMesterScrum Show #392 Live - 2 Spots for Free Coaching and Coaching the Coach reflecting on my Coaching Session - Today's topics: (1) So I like to offer some free coaching to people on their agile journey. I do this as part of my giving back to the agile community with 6 months of free coaching. 30 minutes a week to talk about whatever is needed by the coachee bouncing between coaching and mentoring. Any where in the world and any time zone. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum...
Dec 28, 2020•11 min•Ep. 393
#5amMesterScrum Show #391 Live - Vacation Oh My and the impact on Velocity and Allowing the Customer or Product Owner to Run The Review - Today's topics: (1) Team and Organizations worry way too much about vacations and the impacts on Velocity and (2) Allowing the Product Owner to run the review has so much more value than a person on the team running the Review. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. #5amMe...
Dec 27, 2020•11 min•Ep. 392
#5amMesterScrum Show #390 Live - Analysis Stories Danger, Danger - Today's topics: (1) Analysis stories are carry over from the waterfall world and a waste of customer money. I would rather do a spike and delivery some kind of verified product. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. #5amMesterScrum #scrum #agile #business #scrummaster #agilecoach #coaching #philadelphia #philly #analysis #story #businessanal...
Dec 27, 2020•7 min•Ep. 391
#5amMesterScrum Show #389 Live - 5 Random Power Questions and Failure to Fail the answer is Not Really - Today's topics: (1) Sharing 5 Powerful Questions that you can use with team and people, and (2) Watching Lisa Patrick's video today and and reflecting on some of my failures. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. #5amMesterScrum #scrum #agile #business #scrummaster #agilecoach #coaching #philadelphia #ph...
Dec 26, 2020•11 min•Ep. 390
#5amMesterScrum Show #388 Live - Last Day of Sprint and Being Late, irony on the Framework discussion from yesterday and Fortune Cookie Friday - Today's topics: (1) What to do if it is the last day of the Sprint and there are 1 or 2 Stories left, (2) Picking a framework or going from Scrum to kanban for a team in SAFe, and (3) Fortune Cookie Friday: When pushed, love digs in its heels, this sounds like coaching. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You ...
Dec 26, 2020•20 min•Ep. 389
#5amMesterScrum Show #387 Live - Choosing Framework is Last after looking at Flow and the Classic "We are funded for 3 months but don't worry there is plenty of budget" is really "No Time" - Today's topics: (1) Follow Agile Manifesto Value 1 when picking a Framework and (2) You might have 2 years to get something done but if you don't deliver working production code in 3 months there might not be funds there to support 2 years. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me y...
Dec 25, 2020•17 min•Ep. 388
5amMesterScrum Show #386 Live - Burndown and Review as you Go with the Product Owner and Story Writing Workshop with a DoR Twist - Today's topics: (1) How does a burndown chart not become a Sprint waterfall? and (2) User Story write should start with a Definition of Ready DoR session and not grammar. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. #5amMesterScrum #scrum #agile #business #scrummaster #agilecoach #coac...
Dec 25, 2020•15 min•Ep. 387
#5amMesterScrum Show #385 Live - 10 Million Views with our Coke and Mentos Experiment Sprints and Is Subtle Influence of the Boss Watching Fair in watching for Team Improvement? - Today's topics: (1) 10,000,000 views sharing Scrum and Agile even in the world of Coke and Mentos Experiments, and (2) Using metrics a a subtle way to get team to pay attention to improvement goal aka Scrum The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time.. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please sen...
Dec 24, 2020•16 min•Ep. 386
#5amMesterScrum Show #384 Live - Shout Out to Product Owners as they have a Tough Job - Today's topics: (1) Product Owners have a tough job and they need to push back on themselves and the Scrum Team on the business value in the stories they develop. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. #5amMesterScrum #scrum #agile #business #scrummaster #agilecoach #coaching #philadelphia #philly #productowner #po #story...
Dec 24, 2020•9 min•Ep. 385
#5amMesterScrum Show #383 Live - We are Using Metrics Wrong! and Confession of Not Getting Things Done and Holding me Back - Today's topics: (1) Again Inspired by Jem Jelly's and reflecting on Metrics and How Corporate and PMOs are doing Metrics Wrong and Doing a disservice to Teams, and (2) Not Getting Stuff Done is a Big Anchor to moving forward to the next Great Adventure. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sh...
Dec 23, 2020•13 min•Ep. 384
#5amMesterScrum Show #382 Live - Job Interview Question Burndown Chart - Today's topics: (1) Sharing three Burndown charts that I have seen over the years during interviews. Inspired by Jem Jelly's agile coach interview questions recent videos. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. #5amMesterScrum #scrum #agile #business #scrummaster #agilecoach #coaching #philadelphia #philly #velocity #burndown #metrics #...
Dec 23, 2020•16 min•Ep. 383
#5amMesterScrum Show #381 Live - Kanban Timebox in SAFe, Throughput Continued is it time to shrink the timebox and Fortune Cookie Friday - Today's topics: (1) While reading up on Throughput for documentation I saw where in SAFe Kanban teams also have a timebox, (2) Throughput can be used as a sign that it is time to cut your Sprint Timebox in 1/2, and (3) Fortune Cookie Friday: You need to talk to someone about what's on your mind. Showing off a new tie-dye t-shirt from one of our subscribers fr...
Dec 22, 2020•9 min•Ep. 382
#5amMesterScrum Show #380 Live - Throughput and Velocity Metrics Part 1 and Be an Experiencer and Declare to yourself No Longer be a Servant by Volunteering for stuff that you always do - Today's topics: (1) First look into Velocity and Throughput metrics and why and (2) Be an Experiencer and don't do things for your Team or Spouse and even better Volunteer to do their Job. Don't let them do what they think you want them to do. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me y...
Sep 18, 2020•20 min•Ep. 381
#5amMesterScrum Show #379 Live - Celebrating 10,000 Subscribers on our YouTube Channel and SpaceX test launch yesterday, Talking Trash again with DoD and a little Kantor discussion during coaching session - Today's topics: (1) Celebrating Just made 10K subcribers, next is 10K connections on LinkedIn and 10M views, (2) Philadelphia Streets covered in Trash Again and Definition of Done, and (3) Talking Kanton Model and Communication Domains: Power, Affect and Meaning during a coaching session or a...
Sep 17, 2020•15 min•Ep. 380
#5amMesterScrum Show #378 Live - If Hire, Hire is always the answer are you an Agile Company? and an Agile Coach vs. a teacher of Scrum, Kanban or Agile? - Today's topics: (1) The dangers of Corporate transformation the the desire to hire people as the solution, and (2) Difference between teaching agile concepts and methodologies and coaching. There is a difference and how do you keep those skills up? Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doi...
Sep 17, 2020•13 min•Ep. 379
#5amMesterScrum Show #377 Live - Code-a-Thons are Bad anti-Agile and Asking your team what are their goals and metrics - Today's topics: (1) Code-A-Thons are why the Agile Manifesto and Scrum were invented to put an end to them, and (2) Asking your team what their goals are and how they would like to measure themselves to let them know if they are going to meet their goals? Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on Shar...
Sep 16, 2020•16 min•Ep. 378
#5amMesterScrum Show #376 Live - Acceleration Metrics moving average over 3 Sprints and The Missing Timebox in the Scrum Guide Refinement Session - Today's topics: (1) One more point continued from yesterday averaging out the Acceleration over 3 Sprints, and (2) The Missing Timebox in the Scrum Guide: Refinement? So how often and how long should refinement be? Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. #5amMeste...
Sep 16, 2020•16 min•Ep. 377
#5amMesterScrum Show #375 Live - Acceleration Metrics and Trash Pickup Once again - Today's topics: (1) So again the City trash says oh yeah we will pick up on time and again fail. As with teams that have major bug or quality issues I like to promote a take a knee Sprint, and (2) Managers always want to compare teams and I fight it all the team. So I created an Acceleration Metric to prevent comparing Points and Velocities. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your ...
Sep 15, 2020•16 min•Ep. 376
