#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,161 Live - Broken Record But Get the Stakeholders in the Reviews Sooner than later (3R Thursdays) - Today's topics: (1) I was in a Sprint Review the other day and we had stakeholders in the room or the 1st time in a long time. The team finally did it and he they survived and even suggested that more people from the stakeholders department attend next time. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Plea...
Mar 07, 2024•11 min•Ep. 1240
#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,160 Live - Time Boxing your Morning Routines and Shrinking the time box (2-4-1 10X Tuesdays) - Today's topics: (1) I was listening to an Alex Hormozi podcast and he was talking to someone who spent 3 hours on their morning routines and was like that is way too long. I totally agreed and wanted to check my own, especially the time boxes. Questioning do I need to shrink the time boxes? Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. ...
Mar 05, 2024•15 min•Ep. 1239
#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,159 Live - Nature Walk and Flower Sketching and Fortune Cookie (Fun Friday) - Today's topics: (1) The Philadelphia Flower show is opening next week and this morning as I was walking Jerry I saw change was in the air with sprouting flowers. So or fun let's take a walk, flower pictures and draw something 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 ...
Mar 01, 2024•9 min•Ep. 1238
Thursday Night Interview Program with Denzel Giraldo Founder & CEO Interview No. 11 and we talk life, software development, jobs / careers and energy levels to achieving a dream. This is a part of our Thursday Night line up of interviews agile people, change agents and business people seeking Transformation. Denzel Giraldo Founder & CEO at @ImWhileCo, started as a young software developer at the age of 12 years old in the Dominican Republic and later came o the states to build a dream. B...
Mar 01, 2024•37 min•Ep. 1237
#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,158 Live - Stories Disguised s Bugs the never-ending tale of stakeholders trying to get around prioritization backlogs (3R Thursdays) - Today's topics: (1) We all want to work the most valuable features in our backlog and if we are not careful these large features make it almost impossible to get in smaller work that is not as valuable. This is a tactic to work both. If we don't stakeholders will try to disguise new requirements as bugs. And it plays into a goal ...
Feb 29, 2024•15 min•Ep. 1236
This is a recording from our 5amMesterScrum meetup event held on 2/28/2024 with Karl Fryburg sharing on "Goal Setting". The event was a zoom call in with social media live. or at least an attempt. Karl E. Fryburg is a 40 plus year Entrepreneur who has spent the majority of his life in the pursuit of Personal Growth and Development at the highest levels. Will be sharing parts from his Goal Setting program that he coaches and trains. This is be a useful follow-up to anyone who made New Year's Goal...
Feb 29, 2024•58 min•Ep. 1235
#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,157 Live - Coaching Positions Teammates Don't Want to Do (We Team Wednesdays) - Today's topics: (1) Watching my kid's Playoff hockey game )he plays the goalie position) and I watch the entire team swarm to the puck. The team is doing what they want to do and not what they should do. This leaves the entire team vulnerable. We has coaches have to coach people to do things they may not like. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your top...
Feb 28, 2024•12 min•Ep. 1234
#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,156 Live - Trying to Get a Move on Then Pick One Thing and Do It (2-4-1 10X Tuesdays) - Today's topics: (1) I don't know about you or your team but there are time when there is so much that can be done that nothing gets done. So the answer is pick on and focus on it until it is done. Easier said than done sometimes. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. 5am Mester Scrum 5am ...
Feb 27, 2024•12 min•Ep. 1233
Karim Harbott is Business Agility Expert ⭐️ Non-Executive Director ⭐️ Entrepreneur ⭐️ Keynote Speaker 🏆 Best-Selling Author - The 6 Enablers of Business Agility. I saw Karin speak at AgilePhilly conference many years ago and he was Great. Then I got a call and he wanted to share his new book The 6 Enablers of Business Agility and I'm like of course. Some two years later I finally posted the interview. I hope you get a copy of is book if you don't already have a copy. https://www.linkedin.com/in...
Feb 23, 2024•21 min•Ep. 1232
#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,155 Live - Custom Mini Sprint Reviews (3R Thursdays) - Today's topics: (1) Are your key stakeholders too busy to share what is coming from your Sprint with their Partner stakeholders in a department, then give a mini sprint review to their entire department. If you can do in person offer treats. And replicate for as many departments as needed if the work is different enough. It is not about bring them to you but you going to them. Please like and subscribe and sh...
Feb 22, 2024•15 min•Ep. 1231
#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,154 Live - Coach Bite Your Tongue (We Team Wednesdays) - Today's topics: (1) In Team situations so many times I had to bite my tongue and hold my ego back. Let me say it can be tough and frustrating. So what can be done. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. 5am Mester Scrum 5am Mester Scrum Show 1,154 went live on Youtube, LinkedIn and Facebook We Team Wednesday 2/21/2023 f...
Feb 21, 2024•15 min•Ep. 1230
#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,153 Live - Your Team Is Your Customer as Well if you want to Scale (2-4-1 10X Tuesdays) - Today's topics: (1) Teammates should treat each other as a customer as well. They receive each other's product and use it in a technical way. They have to understand, especially if your organization wants o scale your 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 5am Mest...
Feb 20, 2024•15 min•Ep. 1229
#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,152 Live - SuperBowl BurnDown vs. BurnUp (Metric Monday) - Today's topics: (1) SuperBowl Scoring BurnDown and BurnUp comparison Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. 5am Mester Scrum 5am Mester Scrum Lightning Talk 1,152 went live on Youtube, LinkedIn and Facebook Metric Monday 2/19/2023 from Philadelphia, PA Happy Scrumming, Please Don't forget to sign up to our 5amMesterSc...
Feb 19, 2024•15 min•Ep. 1228
#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,144 Live - Fun with wireframing and Fortune Cookie (Fun Friday) - Today's topics: (1) Learning and sharing through wireframing with an exercise and sharing opportunity to learning the thoughts behind wireframing 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 5am Mester Scrum Lightning Talk 1,151 went live on Youtube, LinkedIn and Facebo...
Feb 16, 2024•18 min•Ep. 1227
Thursday Night Interview Program with Amit Kumar Team Manager and Cybersecurity Adjunct Professor at Villanova University Interview No. 9. This is a part of our new Thursday Night line up of interviews agile people, change agents and business people seeking Transformation. Amit Kumar is a Manager of Application Development & Services and we 1st crossed paths 5 years ago. Amit is a driven solution provider with experience delivering high performing, scalable, stable and secure applications in...
Feb 16, 2024•41 min•Ep. 1226
#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,150 Live - Agile Requirements do they Exist? (3R Thursdays) - Today's topics: (1) I would like to argue that I can make any requirement into an agile requirement and there are different levels of clarity and usefulness. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. 5am Mester Scrum 5am Mester Scrum Show 1,150 went live on Youtube, LinkedIn and Facebook 3R (Requirements, Reviews, Ret...
Feb 15, 2024•7 min•Ep. 1225
#5amMesterScrum Show 1,149 Live - OKRs Taken Seriously and Done Planning in Under a Week (2-4-1 10X Tuesdays) - Today's topics: (1) To this day many years later, I hated getting OKRs months post quarter start. It should be done in less than a week. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. 5am Mester Scrum 5am Mester Scrum Show 1,149 went live on Youtube, LinkedIn and Facebook 2-4-1 10X Tuesday 2/11/2024 from P...
Feb 13, 2024•13 min•Ep. 1224
#5amMesterScrum Show 1,148 Live - SuperBowl Weekend and Fortune Cookie (Fun Friday) - Today's topics: (1) SuperBowl Weekend fun with Blocks (no gambling required) 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 5am Mester Scrum Show 1,148 went live on Youtube, LinkedIn and Facebook Fun Friday 2/9/2024 from Philadelphia, PA Happy Scrumming, Please Don't forget to sign up...
Feb 09, 2024•8 min•Ep. 1223
New Thursday Night Interview Program with Karl Fryburg Author, Mentor, Coach, Speaker Interview No. 8. This is a part of our new Thursday Night line up of interviews agile people, change agents and business people seeking Transformation. Karl E. Fryburg is a 40 plus year Entrepreneur who has spent the majority of his life in the pursuit of Personal Growth and Development at the highest levels. Karl E. Fryburg is a published author of several books with more projects currently underway. As a Ment...
Feb 09, 2024•33 min•Ep. 1222
#5amMesterScrum Show 1,147 Live - Professional Product Owner (3R Thursdays) - Today's topics: (1) So I was chatting in Slack with Vasco Duarte about his PO Summit April 23rd to the 25th and he mentioned the idea of Professional Product Owner and now I'm doing a mental exercise on what that means. I curious on your thoughts? Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. 5am Mester Scrum 5am Mester Scrum Show 1,147 w...
Feb 08, 2024•11 min•Ep. 1221
#5amMesterScrum Show 1,146 Live - Team Shares Short Cuts (We Team Wednesdays) - Today's topics: (1) Quick plug for test Automation sharing with Dev and Dev Sharing with Operations Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. 5am Mester Scrum 5am Mester Scrum Show 1,146 went live on Youtube, LinkedIn and Facebook We Team Wednesday 2/7/2023 from Philadelphia, PA Happy Scrumming, Please Don't forget to sign up to our...
Feb 07, 2024•8 min•Ep. 1220
#5amMesterScrum Show 1,145 Live - Doing Work for Others is a Bad Idea (2-4-1 10X Tuesdays) - Today's topics: (1) Today we are about saving time for ourselves and two kid stories about doing work for others. One is about oms do work for their kids and the other me almost doing work for my students rather than them learning. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. 5am Mester Scrum 5am Mester Scrum Show 1,145 we...
Feb 06, 2024•12 min•Ep. 1219
#5amMesterScrum Show 1,144 Live - Fun Quiz for Training and Fortune Cookie (Fun Friday) - Today's topics: (1) Using online games like Quizno or other to help train people in Scrum or whatever frame work. The fun thing about external games is that they change up the pace. This session I'll give some sample questions. This will be a part of a series of quiz samples you can use with new or existing teams to educate and have fun and (2) fortune Cookie Friday. Please like and subscribe and share 5amM...
Feb 02, 2024•9 min•Ep. 1218
Kicking Off 2024 with a New Thursday Night Interview Program with Dave Schneider Philly Tech Connect Interview No. 7 originally share 1/18/20254 on the Philadelphia Tech Entrepreneurs Connect Podcast. Using this recording to just kick it off. The Thursday Night show will start at 8pm EST with the podcast version to follow up at 9pm EST. Please stay tune for more interviews with agile people and change agents.
Feb 02, 2024•15 min•Ep. 1217
#5amMesterScrum Show 1,143 Live - Allow Your Team to Shine - Do Not Gatekeep Reviews Get Everyone Sharing (3R Thursdays) - Today's topics: (1) Sprint Reviews are a Great Opportunity to allow our Teams to shine, but in many places either the Product Owner, Scrum Master or the same person always leads the sharing. Get away from that and let people shine and get acknowledgement for their work. Also create a two way street and allow the team the team to suggest topics and vote on them. Please like a...
Feb 01, 2024•12 min•Ep. 1216
#5amMesterScrum Show 1,142 Live - What Did you Learn Yesterday, A new question for Daily Scrum (We Team Wednesdays) - Today's topics: (1) Daily scrum getting boring try sharing learnings from the day before as an option. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. 5am Mester Scrum 5am Mester Scrum Show 1,142 went live on Youtube, LinkedIn and Facebook We Team Wednesday 1/31/2023 from Philadelphia, PA Happy Scrumm...
Jan 31, 2024•5 min•Ep. 1215
#5amMesterScrum Show 1,141 Live - Is Vacation Time Yours to Keep or Use? (2-4-1 10X Tuesdays) - Today's topics: (1) My wife planned on using a certain type of leave time for what I don't know and she built it up and then the corporation decided to change the policy and she lost it. So is your vacation time yours to keep or should you really use it along the way? Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. 5am Mes...
Jan 30, 2024•15 min•Ep. 1214
#5amMesterScrum Show 1,140 Live - Testing Metrics Manual and Automated (Metric Monday) - Today's topics: (1) Providing some data to help push automation Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. 5am Mester Scrum 5am Mester Scrum Show 1,140 went live on Youtube, LinkedIn and Facebook Metric Monday 1/29/2023 from Philadelphia, PA Happy Scrumming, Please Don't forget to sign up to our 5amMesterScrum newsletter for...
Jan 29, 2024•12 min•Ep. 1213
#5amMesterScrum Show 1,139 Live - Game Day Speed Bumps and Fortune Cookie (Fun Friday) - Today's topics: (1) Converting Mille Borne game into a agile team game virtual or in person 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 5am Mester Scrum Show 1,139 went live on Youtube, LinkedIn and Facebook Fun Friday 1/26/2024 from Philadelphia, PA Happy Scrumming, Join the ne...
Jan 26, 2024•13 min•Ep. 1212
#5amMesterScrum Show 1,138 Live - Sprint Review for Your Career (3R Thursdays) - Today's topics: (1) So many people complain about year end reviews and pay increases, but never share their good work at Sprint Reviews. Why are you putting your whole career in the hands of your boss to share the good work you do up the chain. That is nuts! Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. 5am Mester Scrum 5am Mester Scru...
Jan 25, 2024•16 min•Ep. 1211
