#5amMesterScrum Show #464 Live - Value Into Customer Hands - Today's topics: (1) If we waited for perfection then our customers would never have anything of value to use and we never know if they will like it or not. I also shared a 113 year old post card mailed months ahead of time and compared it to today's communications. 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 #scru...
Feb 28, 2021•10 min•Ep. 465
#5amMesterScrum Show #463 Live - How does One Know We are Working on The Right Thing? - Today's topics: (1) I was watching a Jem Jelly youtube clip and he was taking about interview questions he asks agile coaches: Is this team working on the work things? or something close to that and I changed it up a bit at least in the answer. 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...
Feb 27, 2021•10 min•Ep. 464
#5amMesterScrum Show #462 Live - Movies Titles in Team Retrospectives and Fortune Cookie Friday - Today's topics: (1) Saw a connection on LinkedIn do a James Bond 007 Retro and thought it would be great fun to create a movie title based Retro and (2) Fortune Cookie Friday: Failure is the Mother of Success. 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...
Feb 21, 2021•15 min•Ep. 463
#5amMesterScrum Show #461 Live - One (1) Point Stories and Spending way too much time Assigning (claiming) stories - Today's topics: (1) Proposal for transforming team that any One (1) Point Story should be doable by anyone on the team and (2) Some Team spend way too much time figuring out who is going to do which story during Sprint Planning and that is not really useful. Use 1 point idea to minimize it. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are...
Feb 20, 2021•11 min•Ep. 462
#5amMesterScrum Show #460 Live - Counts, Points, Hours Battle (No Election talk) - Today's topics: (1) Love it (sarcastic) when the "No Points" people ask the team to record Hours and (2) Why I like points at the team level and hate what agile accountants do with them at the organizational level. 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...
Feb 18, 2021•14 min•Ep. 461
#5amMesterScrum Show #459 Live - Good Luck in Voting Today and MVP in Rockets - Today's topics: (1) Wanted to wish everyone good luck in voting and please remember it is like a scrum team do what you can to minimize dependencies outside your control and make what is in front of you really the best you can and (2) Fun stuff looking at SpaceX MVP path with the goal of mass producing rockets. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Ple...
Feb 18, 2021•12 min•Ep. 460
#5amMesterScrum Show #458 Live - Happy Halloween Velocity Pumpkin Teeth - Today's topics: (1) Happy Halloween Drawing a Velocity History Chart that is scary and (2) Even Youtube Rolls code back, so you are not alone. 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 #fun #halloween #velocity #visual #history #done #commitme...
Feb 17, 2021•7 min•Ep. 459
#5amMesterScrum Show #457 Live - Perfect Team Fun Friday and Visualize the Perfect Team environment and Fortune Cookie Friday - Today's topics: (1) Trying to have some fun and visualize the perfect team with ideas Like Virtual Reality Thursdays (some things crazy) and superfast environments (something grounded) and (2) Fortune Cookie Friday: A friend who hasn't seen for a long time will help you out from crisis. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You ...
Feb 14, 2021•10 min•Ep. 458
#5amMesterScrum Show #456 Live - No Points for New Teams - Don't ever Point Again for the 1st one or two Sprints Ever Again - Today's topics: (1) People are always asking me how do I introduce pointing to a new team or team transitioning, so I came up with this after a coachee asked about no estimates. For the first sprint don't point the stories in the backlog, just have them work the prioritized list during your team's time box and go from there. Here is my proposal in this show. Please like a...
Feb 13, 2021•15 min•Ep. 457
#5amMesterScrum Show #455 Live - Rewarding Code Reviews - Today's topics: (1) Yesterday I attended a really informative webinar with the Codurance Craft Events Barcelona meetup by By Trisha Gee- Java Advocacy Team Lead at JetBrains and she had a real nice idea to offer up reward for code reviews and a number of other points that I will share in share shows. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. #5amMesterSc...
Feb 12, 2021•6 min•Ep. 456
#5amMesterScrum Show #454 Live - Bugs Sprint Bad (Not True) and Exposure is going to happen when you Transform to Agile - Today's topics: (1) Lots more Bugs and the Agile Accountants come out in panic well it should happen and for good reasons and (2) Exposure will happen in a Transformation, like my refurnished floors showing every leaf and speck of dirt. Everything is exposed and I want to fix them because I can see them now, where before it all blended in. Please like and subscribe and share ...
Feb 11, 2021•13 min•Ep. 455
#5amMesterScrum Show #453 Live - Perspectives in reference to Others and Time to Market take into account Customer Base - Today's topics: (1) Perspectives: It is a cold rainy Monday here in Eastern US, but I sure bet people on West Coast would Love some rain and others would love to be working, plus fun, bugs, time and (2) Time to Market where I'm watching my France TV where they see a 100K per Day COVID trend and doing the math is about 2 years for every person in France to get COVID. Classic v...
Feb 11, 2021•14 min•Ep. 454
#5amMesterScrum Show #452 Live - Failure (International Failure Day, Oct. 13th) and Rate Per Hour Impact of Working 50 plus hours per week - Today's topics: (1) Our TV broke and our new TV gave us a bunch of new channels and one was the Army of Fail and they were celebrating International Failure Day and (2) People ask about different in rate for contractor and Full Time and I say one thing you have to learn is the expectation of time spent as 50 vs. 40 hours per week is a 25% impact on your rat...
Feb 10, 2021•8 min•Ep. 453
#5amMesterScrum Show #451 Live - Reply All Does Not Mean you are Agile !, PM destruction of SAFe and Fortune Cookie Friday - Today's topics: (1) My wife and I were talking about the use of "Reply All" on email and my point is Agile does not Require people to Reply ALL, just so we all understand that,(2) Project Management and Multiple Project work kills the original premise behind SAFe and Agile Release Trains as the idea is to release in 3 months and not a 1 year and (3) Fortune Cookie Friday: ...
Feb 09, 2021•17 min•Ep. 452
#5amMesterScrum Show #450 Live - NO Managers in Retrospective and The Ultimate Disruptor SpaceX - Today's topics: (1) So I'm facilitating a retro (actually a few recently) and I allow a manger to attend and what I hear is "from what I understand" from the manager when I ask the team a question. They totally don't get self-organizing, and (2) Industry Disruptors! SpaceX I would say is a Classic Disruptor in the Space Industry. The gall of them to build a space ship in the open air swap of Texas. ...
Feb 09, 2021•13 min•Ep. 451
#5amMesterScrum Show #449 Live - Made 10,000 and 10 Connections on LinkedIn and What Goals Do if Done Well - Today's topics: (1) 10,010 connections and a BIG THANK YOU and I'm have so much fun, (2) Shared a video of Elon Musk at the Mars 2020 Conference and in there he talked about using a Goal to give direction to your design choices and it finally put Sprint Goals in perspective for me, and (3) Connections with Recruiters and why you should accept them. Please like and subscribe and share 5amM...
Feb 08, 2021•13 min•Ep. 450
#5amMesterScrum Show #448 Live - Say Hello to CoWorkers & IIBA Virtual Meeting 10/21 Can Agile Approach Be Successful Remotely - Today's topics: (1) I was invited to speak at the Philadelphia IIBA Chapter on 10/21 about Remote Agile (I would love some pre questions) and (2) Pure Fun and No Work involved: Reach out and say hello via your work's messaging system to someone you have not talked to since the lockdowns or maybe it has been a while. No work topics just hello. I'm trying to start a ...
Feb 07, 2021•7 min•Ep. 449
#5amMesterScrum Show #447 Live - Empirical Process Control Theory is Missing A Key Element (Radical Improvement) and new word "UnLearn" and I Love It! - Today's topics: (1) In Empirical Process Control Theory we look to the pass to help us plan the future but I feel we need to also add the challenge to move the needle and Improve Radically and (2) The term UnLearn is something I have been looking for a while. I idea of not assuming others know what we know, is a key to good communication. I hear...
Feb 06, 2021•15 min•Ep. 448
#5amMesterScrum Show #446 Live - Think Teams are Their Own Little Companies Anti-Normalization - Today's topics: (1) Interesting that we are on this anti-Normalization trend read an article about 102 companies under one roof operating independent and it fit with our team discussion and (2) Updates on Coke and Mentos experiments from yesterday, lots of lessons learned from doing and more updates to come. Having Fun. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. Y...
Feb 05, 2021•10 min•Ep. 447
#5amMesterScrum Show #445 Live - Normalization the Pursuit of Average y Tech Manager interaction with a Scrum Team - Today's topics: (1) I here Normalization thrown around but is it to just make everyone average in the end, No more High Performing Teams? and (2) I was asked the other day about Tech managers and their roles with scrum teams and should they attend Scrum Events. All but Retros and I want to say yes but I see way too much that makes me say No! Please like and subscribe and share 5am...
Feb 04, 2021•10 min•Ep. 446
#5amMesterScrum Show #444 Live - Difficult People requires Respect, Willingness to Listen y Fortune Cookie Friday - Today's topics: (1) Watching Mr. Davis interview he shared lots of great points and one was when dealing with anyone show Respect and a Willingness to Listen and (2) Fortune Cookie Friday: Frequent conversations will fill your heart with joy. This is so true ! Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on Shar...
Feb 03, 2021•11 min•Ep. 445
#5amMesterScrum Show #443 Live - Interview Prep and Dress Like you are Going Into Office and The word Everything is said Watchout - Today's topics: (1) With COVID most job Interviews are virtual but dress and prep like you are going into the office and (2) Pause when people say words like Everything, Assume, All Teams, Everyone Should and a personal favorite Normalize.. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing....
Feb 02, 2021•12 min•Ep. 444
#5amMesterScrum Show #442 Live - Virtual Interview Questions for You to Ask and Agile vs. Waterfall - Today's topics: (1) Continued from yesterday's but this time questions anyone can ask to a company during an interview and (2) Agile vs. Waterfall never shall they mix or why not. It is up to the team and our job to help where we can. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. #5amMesterScrum #scrum #agile #busi...
Feb 01, 2021•15 min•Ep. 443
#5amMesterScrum Show #441 Live - BA Job Interview ?'s and Monday Status Meetings Oh My! - Today's topics: (1) Talking the other day to a Business Analyst (BA) friend of mine about a job Interview and he/she went right into the answer verse asking questions ? and (2) Status Meetings on Mondays! One reason why I love Scrum so much. How much can really get done in a day? All we, as a team, want to know is what is getting passed on to other people. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum....
Jan 31, 2021•15 min•Ep. 442
#5amMesterScrum Show #440 Live - My Daily Scrum Sample for Today & Scrum Karens that just come in and mess up your Scrum - Today's topics: (1) Just gave an example of my personal Daily Scrum plus a goofy if I was a duck in the rain since it is Monday and (2) How to Deal with those people that come in and mess up your scrum aka Karen (man or women). The key is that you can't avoid and should engage with them, but how? Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your top...
Jan 30, 2021•11 min•Ep. 441
#5amMesterScrum Show #439 Live - Help Make Team Successful as a Product Owner and Taking advantage of the full 4 hours of Sprint Planning as a Team - Today's topics: (1) I was watching a short clip about being a Business Analyst at Google and one person said the Goal to help make the Developers Successful - I like that, and (2) I see so many teams not take advantage of Sprint Planning 4 hour time box to share and talk about tasks to get stories Done. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMester...
Jan 29, 2021•11 min•Ep. 440
#5amMesterScrum Show #438 Live - Scrum Master's Job Escalation Only? and the Work Triangle Dangers - Today's topics: (1) Talking with a Scrum Master is their job just to escalate problems? Why can't they help facilitate solutions outside their team? and (2) Work Triangle a term I came up with when Agile Accountants / Auditors / Managers want to look deep into teams causing 100x to 600x in admin clicks. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are do...
Jan 28, 2021•17 min•Ep. 439
#5amMesterScrum Show #437 Live - Team Work Better Than Individual and Fortune Cookie 2X - Today's topics: (1) Watching the Team Sand our Wood floor Done in 4 hours vs. Days for a single person and (2) Fortune Cookie Friday 2x: (a) if you live out of your imagination, you live out of your potential and (b) In the new year, a little gambling doesn't hurt. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. #5amMesterScrum ...
Jan 27, 2021•10 min•Ep. 438
#5amMesterScrum Show #436 Live - Continued Short Term Ideas but at some point Scrum Master has to Speak Up!- Today's topics: (1) When does the Scrum Master or Agile Coach have to step in and say enough is enough? 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 #team #commitment #done #productowner #velocity #shortterm #lo...
Jan 26, 2021•9 min•Ep. 437
#5amMesterScrum Show #435 Live - Short Term Thinking with Code Standards and people and PO Needs more Work than normal velocity - Today's topics: (1) Continued thoughts from show 428 team vs. organization code standards, and (2) PO wants more points in a Sprint and team agrees, is it Scrum Master's job to stop them? Answer is No, by the way! Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. #5amMesterScrum #scrum #agil...
Jan 25, 2021•12 min•Ep. 436
