#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,182 Live - Watching a Local Kids Team Play and Work Together and Fortune Cookie (Fun Friday) - Today's topics: (1) Sometime we over do what it means to be a team. Watching Kids play together can remind you that it can be fun as well 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 1,182 went live on Youtube...
Apr 19, 2024•10 min•Ep. 1270
Thursday Night Interview Program with Dr. Karen Kramer, Author, Business Women, Coach. We'll be discussing Helping People to take back their Life & Live it on Purpose Dr. Karen Kramer helps women who have gone through a major event that has led them to question "Who am I?" and "What do I want?" to take back their life and live it by their design. Dr. Karen is in book Volume 19 (the one before mine volume 20) of the “Change Series Insights Into Self Empowerment”, with her section “Good Grief!...
Apr 19, 2024•48 min•Ep. 1269
#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,181 Live - Sharing Quasi Roadmap at Reviews don't loose the Opportunity (3R Thursdays) - Today's topics: (1) So many teams miss out on the opportunity to share quasi Roadmaps at Sprint Reviews. The sad part it is a chance to get feed back from customers on what is up next for the team and look for an priority changes that could be made before Sprint Planning. Plus it can be reused at Sprint Planning if done right. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScru...
Apr 18, 2024•11 min•Ep. 1268
5amMesterScrum Meetup session Talking Questions recorded on 4/17/2024 at 6pm EST Topic: Conversations on the Importance of Asking Questions This will be a dialog discussion between Amit Kumar, Team Manager & Cybersecurity Adjunct Professor and Greg Mester co-Author of The Change Book Vol 20 and everyone in the meetup group. Thoughts: - Why should we ask questions? - Encouraging Questions - The importance of Questions - How do we get people to ask questions? Co-Hosted by: Amit Kumar, Team Man...
Apr 18, 2024•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 1267
#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,180 Live - HR & PO Offshore Fail (We Team & HR Wednesdays) - Today's topics: (1) So on tax day I was able to witness and combination of HR and Product Owner Offshore Failure. The HW Department help create an Offshore support structure and the Product Owner promoted it to their customers, but when the system crashed overnight no one was empowered to communicate nor may fix the problem offshore. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please sen...
Apr 17, 2024•11 min•Ep. 1266
#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,179 Live - Bad Habits Creep into Public Domain (2-4-1 10X Tuesdays) - Today's topics: (1) Watch out for the bad habit of minimizing issues, because those bad habits can loose you customers. You will say what you practice sooner or later. 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 1,179 went live on Youtube, LinkedIn and Facebook 2-...
Apr 16, 2024•16 min•Ep. 1265
#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,178 Live - Group Gaming Experiment Results are In and Fortune Cookie (Fun Friday) - Today's topics: (1) The results from my gaming experiment with my students 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 1,178 went live on Youtube, LinkedIn and Facebook Fun Friday 4/12/2024 from Philadelphia, PA Happy S...
Apr 12, 2024•12 min•Ep. 1264
Thursday Night Interview Program with Duane Hill, Jr. We'll be discussing Duane's life as a scrum master, coach, and the proud creator of ScrumBuddies Coaching in Interview No. 17. Duane’s goal is to help emerging scrum masters grab their next role. Duane Hill, Jr. Former educator turned Scrum Master turned Scrum Master Coach. My goal is to create space for agile in school systems across the United States to increase buy-in with students and retain teachers. Now a Scrum Master at Scrum Alliance....
Apr 12, 2024•30 min•Ep. 1263
#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,177 Live - Communications Top Skill - use Sprint Review to develop that skill (3R Thursdays) - Today's topics: (1) Report on Skills in the New World of Work by Scrum Alliance and Business Agility Institute share that Communications is the highest sought after skill by employers. . 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 1,177 we...
Apr 11, 2024•6 min•Ep. 1262
#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,176 Live - Pretend You Know Nothing - Act as New Customer (2-4-1 10X Tuesdays) - Today's topics: (1) So many teams and creators assume for some reason the new customer knows the same things they do or understands the company process. My advice is that if your product is for a new customer, assume they know nothing and turn off what you already know. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep...
Apr 09, 2024•9 min•Ep. 1261
#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,175 Live - Group Gaming Experiment and Fortune Cookie (Fun Friday) - Today's topics: (1) Ever try the penny game for a throughput experiment for a team or class? Why not try it with a video or online game? 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 1,175 went live on Youtube, LinkedIn and Facebook Fun...
Apr 05, 2024•10 min•Ep. 1260
Thursday Night Interview Program with Anton Skornyakov discussing his journey from Coach to Entrepreneur to Author in Interview No. 16 and we talk about his new book "The Art of Slicing Work: How to Navigate Unpredictable Projects". This is a part of our Thursday Night line up of interviews agile people, change agents and business people seeking Transformation. Anton Skornyakov was born in Moscow, Russia before relocating to Germany at the age of 12. Trained as a mathematician and physicist, Ant...
Apr 05, 2024•45 min•Ep. 1259
#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,174 Live - Small Reviews with focused Stakeholders (It is not about you!) (3R Thursdays) - Today's topics: (1) Having smaller reviews with just interested Stakeholder what a concept. 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 1,174 went live on Youtube, LinkedIn and Facebook 3R (Requirements, Reviews, Retros) Thursday 4/4/2024 from...
Apr 04, 2024•8 min•Ep. 1258
5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,173 Live - Selfish or Greedy No Code Reviews with Teammates (We Team & HR Wednesdays) - Today's topics: (1) Recalling an agile coffee pre 2020 and one coach said that no matter what the team did not could understand what their new teammate coded. Code reviews should not be bout quality but who easy is it for people to understand the logic to your design. Some might use fear as an excuse and others just do it for job security. Please like and subscribe and shar...
Apr 03, 2024•11 min•Ep. 1257
#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,172 Live - Meditate y Read a Free Book and Fortune Cookie (Fun Friday) - Today's topics: (1) On this fun day I wanted to encourage everyone to try some meditation and maybe read a book. In fact I'm offering free PDF versions of my volume of the Change Series. I realized as I listened to my interview with Angeline last night that is so much to gain from sharing change book series co-author stories. So I'm offering free pdf copies to anyone who signs up for my mail...
Mar 29, 2024•10 min•Ep. 1256
Thursday Night Interview Program with Angeline Constantinou a Women’s Empowerment Partner and Mentor. We'll be discussing empowering women to step into their own power and identify their true purpose and calling in life. in Interview No. 15 and we talk about what she is up to and what is next for Angeline and her journey to get where she is Today!. This is a part of our Thursday Night line up of interviews agile people, change agents and business people seeking Transformation. Angeline Constanti...
Mar 29, 2024•44 min•Ep. 1255
#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,171 Live - 45 min Sprint Planning (3R Thursdays) - Today's topics: (1) I was surprised yesterday at a Sprint Planning Session when the PO did a Planning by Feature and we finished in 45 minutes. How did we get 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 5am Mester Scrum Lightning Talk 1,171 went live on Youtube, LinkedIn and Facebook 3R (Requirements, Revie...
Mar 28, 2024•10 min•Ep. 1254
#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,170 Live - Putting in the Work, Fear and Hate (2-4-1 10X Tuesdays) - Today's topics: (1) Putting in the Work can be very scary and people can hate on you for it. I share a podcase from Alex Hormozi with my 8th grade lass. We had an interesting chat on hate. Hating those who succeed. For me I'm more impressed than jealous. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. 5am Mester Scru...
Mar 26, 2024•15 min•Ep. 1253
Thursday Night Interview Program with Annie Mood Wellbeing Consultant talking Burnout and Work-Life Harmony in Interview No. 14 and we talk about what she is up to and what is next for Annie and her journey to get where she is Today!. This is a part of our Thursday Night line up of interviews agile people, change agents and business people seeking Transformation. Annie Mood, based in the UK with clients here on the East Coast of USA, is a Wellbeing Consultant specializing in Preventing Burnout a...
Mar 22, 2024•34 min•Ep. 1252
#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,169 Live - Know Thy Business Cycle and add it to the Why in the Requirement (3R Thursdays) - Today's topics: (1) There is a falsehood about dates, that they are not needed. I beg to differ. Knowing your business and customer cycles can be so important. And if a cycle is not well know it should be included in the why of a story, feature or Epic depending on the rollout of the value to the customer. The Meta Cast podcast is what made me think about this as well as ...
Mar 21, 2024•15 min•Ep. 1251
5amMesterScrum Agile and Scrum Sharing & Interactive Meetup Presenting Better Product Outcomes by Gary Cohen, Organizational Change Coach Topic: "Let's Be Real - How Our Planning, Status Meetings, and Product Roadmaps Habits are Holding us Back from Better Product Outcomes"? This will focus on common organizational habits that seem like best practices but limit our ability to create products that are most likely to create customer value and deliver the business outcomes we are seeking. 30-40...
Mar 21, 2024•57 min•Ep. 1250
5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,168 Live - School Bus Late Again Team Dependencies (We Team & HR Wednesdays) - Today's topics: (1) It has now been a month straight of the school bus being 20 minutes late causing all kind of schedule issues. This is the same thing that occurs for team dependencies and missing dates. 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 1,168 went l...
Mar 20, 2024•13 min•Ep. 1249
#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,167 Live - In OKR's 90 days is a Year (2-4-1 10X Tuesdays) - Today's topics: (1) I was listening to Amy Porterfield and she was saying how Millionaires think in 90 days as their year. Which of course reminded me of Quarterly OKRs and the need to record OKRs that are not yearly based i.e. 10% growth but quarterly or smaller like 2 or 3% growth. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sh...
Mar 19, 2024•13 min•Ep. 1248
#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,166 Live - Take a Mini Vacation and Fortune Cookie (Fun Friday) - Today's topics: (1) Highly recommend a mini vacation if it has been a while since a nice vacation and disconnect 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 1,166 went live on Youtube, LinkedIn and Facebook Fun Friday 3/15/2024 from Phil...
Mar 15, 2024•10 min•Ep. 1247
Thursday Night Interview Program with Dr. Carla Hooker CEO Insights Into Self Empowerment Interview No. 12 and we talk about what she is up to and what is next for Carla and her journey to get where she is Today!. This is a part of our Thursday Night line up of interviews agile people, change agents and business people seeking Transformation. Dr. Carla Hooker is a CEO and Artistic Director for Karla's Kids Musical Ministries School of Liturgical Dance. Carla and I are both in Book Volume 20 of t...
Mar 15, 2024•26 min•Ep. 1246
#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,165 Live - Break Up your Sprint Review into smaller pieces (3R Thursdays) - Today's topics: (1) Don't Wait for the Feature to be Done before sharing in a Sprint Review. Work with the client or stakeholder to come up with good break points to get feedback on. Aka Stories. I remember reading the Sprint and in that book they would share a single page and fake the rest. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing ...
Mar 14, 2024•9 min•Ep. 1245
#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,157 Live - Adding New Topic Area Human Resources HR to Wednesday Topics (We Team & HR Wednesdays) - Today's topics: (1) Wednesdays we talk about Agile Teams and I realized that we need to also talk about Human Resources and building solid Teams from the start. 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 1,164 went live on Youtube, LinkedI...
Mar 13, 2024•13 min•Ep. 1244
#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,163 Live - Art of Saying No and then Focusing (2-4-1 10X Tuesdays) - Today's topics: (1) I was listening to an Alex Hormozi podcast again and he was talking about his ability to say No and focus. I wanted to add some tips and reality 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 Lightning Talk 1,163 went live on Youtube, LinkedIn and Faceb...
Mar 12, 2024•9 min•Ep. 1243
#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,162 Live - Women's History Month Women in Tech History Search/Share and Fortune Cookie (Fun Friday) - Today's topics: (1) Trying to think of some fun stuff for my technology students to do. My 5th grade son said coloring and I suggested I should find inventions by women and have the kids color that. He agreed. So in the theme of Women's history month I say expand the brain with the team and have them find women in tech and create a quick shared page with what the...
Mar 08, 2024•10 min•Ep. 1242
Thursday Night Interview Program with Gary Cohen Organizational Change Coach & Speaker Interview No. 12 and we talk what is he up to and what is next for Gary. This is a part of our Thursday Night line up of interviews agile people, change agents and business people seeking Transformation. Gary Cohen Organizational change coach helping my clients create great software products through agile principles, organizational change best practices, & software development expertise. Gary is based ...
Mar 08, 2024•20 min•Ep. 1241
