#5amMesterScrum Show #614 Live - Working Product is King Way to Go SpaceX and #Agile #Scrum and IR35 the Perfect #HR Solution - Today's topics: (1) SpaceX did they finally landed the Starship and Jeff Bezos protest is cooked and (2) A connection of mine alerted me of IR35 rule in the UK about training contractors. It turns out agile scrum and IR35 work perfectly together due to self organization. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Gr...
Jul 06, 2021•12 min•Ep. 615
#5amMesterScrum Show #613 Live - FTE vs. Contractor Training and #HR Fail, Value Mapping Thoughts for Small and Medium Organizations - Today's topics: (1) Most all Companies make a distinction between providing training for Full Time Employees (FTE) and contractors and that is a terrible HR decision when building teams of mixed make ups and (2) When people talk 3 weeks prep for value stream mapping and 1 week of meeting, that even scares me. But this can be done with less time. Please like and s...
Jul 05, 2021•10 min•Ep. 614
#5amMesterScrum Show #612 Live - Go Slow to Go Fast, Coaching Tip with Planting Thoughts and my latest pet Peeve "Sign on Missing" - Today's topics: (1) I messed up and started with my pet peeve (this is why we set up norms so we can get through the show) UI/UX Fail, (2) Slow Down to Go Faster from the Tim Ottinger talk, by get rid of the queue because of less bugs and (3) Using a simple coaching offer of: "what would you like me to watch for" which makes the coachee slow down and think. Please ...
Jul 04, 2021•17 min•Ep. 613
#5amMesterScrum Show #611 Live - SAFe Epic Elevator Pitch and Skills based Retrospective alternative - Today's topics: (1) SAFe shares many topics that are helpful to any team, a real good one is the idea of Epic Elevator pitches just like we say and (2) From Philly XP Tim Ottinger shared a Skills share retrospective idea that was really good. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. 5am Mester Scrum #5amMeste...
Jul 03, 2021•10 min•Ep. 612
#5amMesterScrum Show #610 Live - Timeboxed Talk 4 Reasons to Use Them - Today's topic: (1) Timeboxes a great tool in a Scrum Master's Toolbox that does not get used enough. We though 4 Why's to use Timeboxes in talking. As Enduring Agile commented on our show: Stop starting, start finishing 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 #agilecoa...
Jul 02, 2021•12 min•Ep. 611
#5amMesterScrum Show #609 Live - Dangers of Scrum Masters Assuming they know what the Team Wants, Local Meetups and Fortune Cookie Friday - Today's topics: (1) I hear a lot of Scrum Masters coming up with solutions and I ask them who should you share with and many times the Scrum Team is the last answer but it should be the first. There is a danger of the scrum master getting too close to the team and (2) Fortune Cookie Friday: One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have...
Jul 01, 2021•14 min•Ep. 610
#5amMesterScrum Show #608 Live - Assuming People Talk, Wrong - Today's topics: (1) Scrum offers safe spaces to talk as a team, don't assume everyone get the change to talk and share elsewhere. 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 #dailyscrum #dsu #safeplaces #communications #team #teamwork 5am ...
Jul 01, 2021•5 min•Ep. 609
#5amMesterScrum Show #607 Live - Falsehood of Assigning Work creating anti-Teaming solutions - Today's topics: (1) The other day while we were cleaning up the sprint backlog we noticed a task that was not "assigned". It was done but no one saw it nor said anything because it was not assign to them. Assigning work can create Scrum anti-patterns and actual cause things to take more time to finish and it may not be the most robust solution. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please...
Jun 30, 2021•9 min•Ep. 608
#5amMesterScrum Show #606 Live - Little League Tech Leads acting just like my kids coaches at battling practice - Today's topics: (1) So I'm watching my kid's softball and baseball coaches, going up each and every swing of the bat and repositioning the kid for the next swing. In my mind I see my Tech Leads tell my teams how to do stuff and even writing the tasks for them. Setting up for terrible muscle memory. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You ar...
Jun 29, 2021•8 min•Ep. 607
#5amMesterScrum Show #605 Live - #Motivation a positive Look via Space Station and #MVP exercise while Building Model Rockets - Today's topics: (1) Everyone needs Motivation and I was thinking Gary Vee's version is a little too depressing, so what about if you were on the ISS Space Station. Would you sleep in? Maybe one day just to do it, and (2) on the the Space theme let do a #MVP (Minimal Viable Product) exercise with Model Rockets. It is actual a great little exercise for Scaling also. Pleas...
Jun 29, 2021•11 min•Ep. 606
#5amMesterScrum Show #604 Live - Netflix putting out Working Product so the Customer can Decide and our Number 1 Fan came to visit - Today's topics: (1) I was watching a Netflix series the other day and it just screamed working product to me. I loved the way they provide multiple opportunities for actresses and actors to get work and opportunities. They provide customer experiments with the short run videos in a very agile way. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me y...
Jun 28, 2021•6 min•Ep. 605
#5amMesterScrum Show #603 Live - Pirates and Contractors Protecting your Company, Rockets and Again Working Software is King, and Fortune Cookie Friday - Today's topics: (1) Again #SpaceX proves once Working Software is King and Reusable, (2) Watching a Pirate documentary and they talked how shipping companies would hire contractors to protect their assets, but the contractors would typically give up the ship to Pirates and (3) Fortune Cookie Friday: Redecorating will be in your plans. This is f...
Jun 27, 2021•13 min•Ep. 604
#5amMesterScrum Show #602 Live - Are You Really Transforming if you have not updated your working agreements in a long time? - Today's topic: (1) Are you transforming and stopped and only have one arm extended? A manager asked me the other day how often do we update the working agreement. That evolved into if you don't update the documents at least once a quarter are you really improving? Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Plea...
Jun 26, 2021•8 min•Ep. 603
#5amMesterScrum Show #601 Live - Sparkle Joy with a No Scrum Today Challenge - Today's topics: (1) I hear it a lot, Why do we Hold Daily Scrum? We talk all the time? Ok, so then once a Sprint let us spend 15 minutes on something fun like a game, trivia, picture, last fun thing done, etc.. Why not take on that challenge. No formal Daily Scrum once a Sprint. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. 5am Mester Sc...
Jun 25, 2021•6 min•Ep. 602
#5amMesterScrum Show #600 Live - Working Software is King and SpaceX proves it with every launch and a new $3B Dollar contract, Fortune Cookie 600 and 5 New Coachees Welcome - Today's topics: (1) Working Software is King and proven once again by SpaceX getting paid, (2) Fortune Cookie Celebrating 600 shows: People are drawn to you and look to you for advice and (3) on that note, I'm opening up for 5 new Coachees, same deal as before 6 months 30 minute Once a week on a regular cadence. Please lik...
Jun 24, 2021•10 min•Ep. 601
#5amMesterScrum Show #599 Live - Ingenuity Agility on Mars Flies without Constant Oversight - Today's topics: (1) Ingenuity Agility on Mars Flies without Constant Oversight, so people can self organized and work without someone telling them what to do and (2) Welcome our #Nebraska listener to our #podcast show. I wanted to say Thank You. 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...
Jun 24, 2021•7 min•Ep. 600
#5amMesterScrum Show #598 Live - The #Agile #Sports Huddle and Welcome new #Podcast listener in #Egypt - Today's topics: (1) Watching #Softball and #Baseball with the kids an the team was huddling at the pitcher's mound holding their own version of an Agile Huddle. They are planning how to accomplish the goal of getting the next player out and go back on offense. That is what Daily Scrums or #Standup should be and (2) Welcome our #Egypt listener to our #podcast show. I wanted to say Thank You. P...
Jun 23, 2021•10 min•Ep. 599
#5amMesterScrum Show #597 Live - Dreaded Micro Team of 1, Watch Out! - Today's topics: (1) Organizations create these little micro teams within a team or even worst an actual Team of 1. Watch out because that is so short term thinking and bad for companies. 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 ...
Jun 22, 2021•9 min•Ep. 598
#5amMesterScrum Show #596 Live -Top 5 + 1 Things a Scrum Master Should Do and Fortune Cookie Friday - Today's topics: (1) Scrum Master needs to do these 6 Things and (2) Fortune Cookie Friday: Ones always regrets what could have done. Remember for next time. That worked well with item number 6. 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 #agile...
Jun 22, 2021•11 min•Ep. 597
#5amMesterScrum Show #595 Live - #HR Outlook 3 Time Zone Rule and Open vs. To Do - Today's topics: (1) When build remote agile teams my wish is that HR and managers would limit the number of time zones to 3 as that is the limit in Outlook and (2) Setting up work flow to start with a state or status of "Open" and not "To Do" as open means to me open for discussion and does not mean we will work it. Where To Do means we will actually do something with it, in my mind. Please like and subscribe and ...
Jun 21, 2021•11 min•Ep. 596
#5amMesterScrum Show #594 Live - Practice Sharing vs "Best" and using Silent sub-Tasking when making Toast - Today's topics: (1) Offering the words "Practice Sharing" vs. a pet peeve "Gold Standard" or "Best" or "Common" practice and (2) Follow-up to show 593 our Making Toast discussion and using Silent Writing to discover a good set of sub-tasks for your stories. Hopefully minimizing the habit of agreeing with everyone else's ideas. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please sen...
Jun 20, 2021•14 min•Ep. 595
#5amMesterScrum Show #593 Live - Toast and sub-Tasks, What is the Sweet Spot for sub-tasks and How to visualize it and our New Meetup - Today's topics: (1) I was watching the TED Talk on How to Make Toast by Tom Wujec and I thought it played out well with getting teams to sub-task stories and (2) Our New Meet-up virtual group experiment with lean coffee, lightning talks, coaching circles and lots of interaction. Plus I got my 2nd shot, so I guess you all can check on me. Please like and subscrib...
Jun 19, 2021•12 min•Ep. 594
#5amMesterScrum Show #592 Live - #Enterprise #Transform Step 5 of a 5 part series and Step 5 is actually Enterprise Transformation and Not Scaling which is different - Today's topics: (1) I'm sharing my thoughts and how I transform an organization as a single #agile coach. Which is not true scaling but an enterprise 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 #scru...
Jun 18, 2021•13 min•Ep. 593
#5amMesterScrum Show #591 Live Late Night Edition - #Enterprise #Transform Step 4 of a 5 part series and Step 4 is Mechanics and Metrics, plus Fortune Cookie Friday and I ask the questions why does agile revolve around drinking? - Today's topics: (1) I ask the question why drinking and agile, (2) getting Mechanics before Metrics, plus which metrics and (3) Fortune Cookie Friday: The road to success is always under construction. That is so true in the agile thought, especially scrum. Please like ...
Jun 17, 2021•18 min•Ep. 592
#5amMesterScrum Show #590 Live - #Enterprise #Transform Step 3 of a 5 part series and Step 3 is Coaching The Team and Thank You #Agile #Coaching #Auckland #NZ for the t-shirt - Today's topics: (1) Coaching Leads is my 1st concentration and for something New I would like to recommend the ICAgile ACC (disclaimer I teach this) for Tech Leads and I explain why, and (2) For the Team and the developers I would like to recommend Scrum Alliance CSD course (I don't teach, but know people). That course ra...
Jun 17, 2021•14 min•Ep. 591
#5amMesterScrum Show #589 Live - Enterprise Transform Step 2 of a 5 part series and Step 2 is Picking Teams #HR Training and Conversations - Today's topics: (1) Step 2 is about training the teams and picking the make up of teams. Think "Pairs" or "Pairing" when assembling a team, and (2) Communication Tools for conversations and not emails. Agile is all about Conversations in real time. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please...
Jun 16, 2021•12 min•Ep. 590
#5amMesterScrum Show #588 Live - Enterprise Transform Step 1 of a 5 part series and Step 1 is Introduce and Train the Managers - Today's topic: (1) I have had lots of enterprise transformation questions lately, so I will a 5 part session with key stuff. This is about training the managers and getting them on board early. 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 #b...
Jun 15, 2021•8 min•Ep. 589
#5amMesterScrum Show #587 Live - Sprint Planning Part A (picking stories) and Part B (Tasking Stories) and Thanks for 5,000 #Podcast Downloads - Today's topic: (1) Something they hint at but don't explain that Sprint Planning is really two parts. Part A 5minutes to 1 hour and Part B the balance up to 4 hours for a two week sprint 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 ...
Jun 15, 2021•10 min•Ep. 588
#5amMesterScrum Show #586 Live - Get Everyone in the Game - Today's topic: (1) One of my Scrum Master's was talking about getting all the kids into a baseball game and I thought what a great analogy "How do we Get Everyone into the Game of Scrum?" My suggestion is to start small with the Daily Scrum and Team Norms and go from there. 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 #scr...
Jun 14, 2021•12 min•Ep. 587
#5amMesterScrum Show #585 Live - Worried About How Viewed by Others and Fortune Cookie Friday - Today's topics: (1) Watching Gary Vee earlier and his comment struck a chord with me, "Stop Worrying about what others think!." Its key to making Scrum and Agile work. Question how to get there? How do we build trust? What should a Leader do? and (2) Fortune Cookie Friday: No man is a failure who is enjoying life. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are ...
Jun 13, 2021•13 min•Ep. 586
