#5amMesterScrum Show #554 Live - Common vs. Best Practice and building them in an Agile vs. Waterfall way - Today's topic: (1) We talked about the evil common practice in show 553. Not I wanted to address Common vs. Best Practice. Common practices should take on a wiki feel to them and be created by all and evolve vs. in a waterfall way and take forever to generate. By the way we were added to Wikipedia for the term "agilist". Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me yo...
May 19, 2021•7 min•Ep. 555
#5amMesterScrum Show #553 Live - Evil Common Practice is a Secret Way to Make People do Context Switching, which Defeats Productivity - Today's topics: Watchin TED talk by Manoush Zomorodi (1) Daily Control on Priorities: son with Homework and me Meeting Invites and (2) Common Practice use as excuse to move business owners from one Business Line to another, when in reality common practice only helps in reporting and mechanics. Not talking Best Practice here. Please like and subscribe and share 5...
May 18, 2021•8 min•Ep. 554
#5amMesterScrum Show #552 Live - Gain Job Experience by Joining a Hacker Group and Fortune Cookie Friday - Today's topics: (1) People always ask me how do I gain Scrum Master or Product Owner Experience without a job, so an option is to offer your skills to a code group and (2) Fortune Cookie Friday: Only when free from projections, we can be aware of reality. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. 5am Meste...
May 17, 2021•10 min•Ep. 553
#5amMesterScrum Show #551 Live - Process or Artifact which is More Important and, Timebox How Much Time - Today's topics: (1) Let's look at the Team Working Agreement or Norm is it more important that they build it or that they have one? and (2) A 30 minute Problem Solving meeting and my 6x5min time boxes for divergent and convergent thinking agenda. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. 5am Mester Scrum #5...
May 16, 2021•10 min•Ep. 552
#5amMesterScrum Show #550 Live - Rushing to "Complete" Sprints for Wrong Reasons - Today's topic: (1) I was watching my son get upset for not getting his homework done (besides working non-value add like video games/youtube). It quickly reminded me of so many scrum teams going crazy to "Complete" a sprint: rushing testing, asking for part credit on points or splitting stories. But why the rush are we landing on Mars or putting ads for Superbowl or launching a new market tomorrow? It is artificia...
May 15, 2021•10 min•Ep. 551
#5amMesterScrum Show #549 Live - Scrum Team of 1, Overkill and Direct Message is Ok probably better - Today's topics: (1) Thanking Duncan Maddox for the topic idea of a Scrum team of One, let's talk overkill and (2) Direct Messaging is OK, but so many avoid it causing time waste or lost key points, but I'm not saying be a jerk. That would be over the top bad. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. 5am Mester...
May 14, 2021•12 min•Ep. 550
#5amMesterScrum Show #548 Live - Daily Scrum +15 or 30 and Why it's Wrong? - Today's topic: (1) Twenty years ago the +15 or +30 minute time after Daily Scrum might have been useful. But now a days most organizations have all kinds of mechanisms for teams to connect on their own. If not then Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches need to challenge it. Maybe the team needs to ID an overlap window for multi time zone teams, but that is an awareness thing and not a meeting. Please like and subscribe and sh...
May 13, 2021•7 min•Ep. 549
#5amMesterScrum Show #547 Live - Daily Scrum Should be about You and the Team - Today's topics: (1) Changing the questions to orient more to how one person is interacting with others by actually calling out names not for bad but for who is taking on the next step in the flow. 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 #ph...
May 13, 2021•7 min•Ep. 548
#5amMesterScrum Show #546 Live - SAFe SPC Test Sabotage and Preparation on Kanban for the Exam - Today's topics: (1) Sharing my experience during the actual test when my kids and cats wanted to sabotage my exam experience and (2) I share my preparation for the SAFe SPC exam with my 1 week sprints and Kanban chart with stories. 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 #ag...
May 12, 2021•19 min•Ep. 547
#5amMesterScrum Show #545 Live - Platinum vs. Golden Rule in Diversity and Expectations and Cookie - Today's topics: (1) Watching a LinkedIn Diversity Learning session by Verna Myers and it was really good learned the Platinum Rule and Golden Rule difference and how to treat people. It does not only apply to Diversity, but expectation for people in the work place. It is VERY Agile. and (2) Fortune Cookie Friday: Some green plants add to fun and beautify the home. I would add the work place also....
May 11, 2021•8 min•Ep. 546
#5amMesterScrum Show #544 Live - Mars Agile or Waterfall or Bust - Today's topics: (1) Today NASA is planning to land on Mars in a very deadline dominant fashion. They want to be there at a specific time and a specific place, so the signals at landing reach Earth. So should it be a waterfall or Agile Project? I would argue "Agile" to reduce risk and get as much test data and working software all the time, verse towards the end and before the deadline Please like and subscribe and share 5amMester...
May 11, 2021•7 min•Ep. 545
#5amMesterScrum Show #543 Live - Off Boarding y Ask the Team - Today's topics: (1) Off Boarding from an Old Job Lesson Learned: Save the Receipt for shipping your computer back, and (2) Ask the Team to confirm your observation by ask them what they are seeing and them work with them to come up with solutions, resist providing your own. 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 10, 2021•8 min•Ep. 544
#5amMesterScrum Show #542 Live - PM, SM or Agile Coach, What Are you? - Today's topic: (1) I had an interesting question about my PM, SM and Agile Coach identification and the discussion was a great series of questions. So in this show I try and explain my take. 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...
May 09, 2021•15 min•Ep. 543
#5amMesterScrum Show #541 Live - Cross Capable Person vs. Capable Team - Today's topic: (1) In the SAFe world they are ok with cross capable teams as an early alternate for cross capable people. So we go though some advantages and disadvantages of the two approaches. 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 #philadelphi...
May 08, 2021•14 min•Ep. 542
#5amMesterScrum Show #539 Live - Certifications and a Different Why of Looking at Them - Today's topic: (1) Shared my Great Grandmother's 124 year old High School Diploma on Valentine's Day and my question is a certification of knowledge or a willingness to learn? I also share an interview question someone like myself might ask. 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 #...
May 07, 2021•9 min•Ep. 541
#5amMesterScrum Show #539 Live - Manifesto 20 years ago and How it Help Us Find the Appropriate Work, plus Fortune Cookie Friday - Today's topics: (1) Taking a look at how the Manifesto acts as a guide to finding appropriate work, (2) Agile is not about working inappropriate work faster and (3) Fortune Cookie Friday: Success lies in the hands of those who want it. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. 5am M...
May 06, 2021•16 min•Ep. 540
#5amMesterScrum Show #538 Live - Estimating Snow and Scaling Two Frameworks: Discussions for a new Job - Today's topics: (1) We still can't Estimate snow fall with all the fancy computers, so why do we think we can in work? and (2) During a discussion with a recruiter they said the customer wanted to transform with LeSS and then a year later transform again to SAFe, yeap that is what I heard. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great ...
May 06, 2021•11 min•Ep. 539
#5amMesterScrum Show #537 Live - Is Scrum Right for the Job? - Today's topic: (1) I was having a conversation with another scrum master about a scrum master that was in a customer service team and they hated their job. The became a discussion of complex problems and why didn't the scrum master recognize that it might be a framework issue or something else related to the work. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sh...
May 05, 2021•10 min•Ep. 538
#5amMesterScrum Show #536 Live - Agile HR Fail and Agile or Scrum Mastery - Today's topics: (1) Agile HR Fail: Manager "the Dev team is in India" and Me: You know India is a big Country? What city? What Building? What Floor? and (2) Scrum Mastery what does that mean? Mechanics? Is there an interest in really mastering Scrum? 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 #agil...
May 04, 2021•11 min•Ep. 537
#5amMesterScrum Show #535 Live - Blame SuperGame Refs for Team Issues and Too Much Talk vs. Being In the Game - Today's topics: (1) Blaming Refs for Team Issues, we hear that constantly in the Agile world but are we doing enough to minimize the impacts of Refs? Do I blame Jerry for eating the football? and (2) Too Much talk about delivering perfect content vs. getting content out therein the Game. Talking about exercise is not exercising. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Pleas...
May 04, 2021•13 min•Ep. 536
#5amMesterScrum Show #534 Live - Splitting Long Sprints and SuperGame fun comparing Sports to Agile frameworks - Today's topics: (1) Team Sprint 6, 4 or even 2 weeks long, how might we introduce shorter timebox? and (2) SuperGame weekend so let's have fun and compare Sports (American Footbal, Rugby, Futbol (soccer)) to Agile Frameworks (Scrum, Kanban, XP). Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. 5am Mester Sc...
May 03, 2021•14 min•Ep. 535
#5amMesterScrum Show #533 Live - Reusability Like SpaceX and Testing with Stakeholders - Today's topics: (1) Reusability allows you to progress much like SpaceX Falcon 9, no one else has the capability and they are crushing it and (2) Testing please let others play with your software before releasing. 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...
May 02, 2021•13 min•Ep. 534
#5amMesterScrum Show #532 Live - Product Owner (PO) and Scrum Master (SM) should become Pals and Fortune Cookie Friday - Today's topics: (1) Product Owner and Scrum Master should be pals (good working relationship) and PO's should take advantage of the SM facilitating skills and (2) Fortune Cookie Friday: Be down-to-earth, good performance will be followed by promotion. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing....
May 01, 2021•11 min•Ep. 533
#5amMesterScrum Show #531 Live - Demo vs. Review and UX wasting time on Design and Not enough on Research - Today's topics: (1) People react to the "Demo" but I would challenge those and ask is your PO or stakeholder operating the product? If not then it is a Demo and (2) Listening to a week broadcast of Jared Pool UX and Agile, he says US is spending too much time on Design vs. Building the right solution for the right problem - Total Agreement! Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScru...
Apr 30, 2021•11 min•Ep. 532
#5amMesterScrum Show #530 Live - Self Appointment and Myth "Agile was created to improve estimates" - Today's topics: (1) Watching a leadership video and they recommended making an appointment with oneself and I say make two 15min before Daily Scrum and 30min once a week on goals and (2) I heard a very influential person say that "Agile was created to make better estimates" and I almost fell out of my chair. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are ...
Apr 29, 2021•15 min•Ep. 531
#5amMesterScrum Show #529 Live - Scrum Interview say what you did to contribute - Today's topic: (1) Telling the story of how you helped a team do better, whether it was a Daily Scrum or Refinement session, please share what you personally contributed and tell a story. 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 #philadelp...
Apr 29, 2021•9 min•Ep. 530
#5amMesterScrum Show #528 Live - Sprint Review, Automation Tools and Retro on last night attempt to read 64,027 issue titles in Jira - Today's topics: (1) Does your Sprint Review represent Agile Manifesto Value 2 of Working SW over Documentation, (2) Automation Tools and talking about my little TikTok on the snow tools and (3) Retrospective on my experimental attempt at reading 64,027 issues in a Jira. Learned lot of good stuff. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me ...
Apr 28, 2021•13 min•Ep. 529
5amMesterScrum Show #527 Live - No Sports today so we are Going to experiment - Today's topics: 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 #experiment #ideas #learning 5am Mester Scrum Show #527 went live on Youtube at 1156 am EST Sunday 1/31/2021 from Philadelphia, PA. Happy Scrumming, Social Media:...
Apr 27, 2021•7 min•Ep. 528
5amMesterScrum Show #526 Live - Turning Idea Parking Lot into Idea Playgrounds and Meeting Fatigue addressing it in your Facilitation - Today's topics: (1) Creating locations for teams to play with ideas and concepts and (2) Meeting Fatigue is something new to the smaller meeting format because of the virtual world. 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 #busine...
Apr 27, 2021•8 min•Ep. 527
#5amMesterScrum Show #525 Live - Alignment is not just Cadence and Fortune Cookie Friday - Today's topics: (1) So many people think Alignment happens when all the Sprints line, but is just a small part and (2) Fortune Cookie Friday: Treasure What you Have. 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 #...
Apr 26, 2021•11 min•Ep. 526
