#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,201 Live - Fun Pirate Friday and Fortune Cookie (Fun Friday) - Today's topics: (1) Reflecting on the fun our co-host Eddie had at the recent home run derby and him winning the championship for his baseball team I wanted to revisit the idea of a baseball retro. Plus I think the MLB All-star game is coming up next month. So why not get a head of the game. and (2) it's Fortune Cookie Friday Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topi...
Jun 21, 2024•18 min•Ep. 1300
5amMesterScrum Meetup Handy SW Tools For Studies, Product Mgr & Health Topic: the tools I use that helped me with Masters degree, my job as a product manager and with my fitness goals. Rob Jackson Product Manager - As an information technology professional, I am passionate about helping users operate more efficiently and seamlessly. I have extensive experience in healthcare operations, data analytics, technology improvement, and integration. Reach out to #5amMesterScrum if you would like a c...
Jun 21, 2024•50 min•Ep. 1299
#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,200 Live - Requirements Follow-Up sometimes Writing them down is not Enough (4R Thursdays) - Today's topics: (1) Reflecting on my year of teaching and during the semesters I created a pretty simple requirement for each grades. At 1st I verbally shared, then written shared with the students and then in the end I had to share it with both parents and students with signatures. And in some cases that still did not work. The same thing goes for requirements in busines...
Jun 20, 2024•12 min•Ep. 1298
#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,199 Live - Hybrid or Remote jobs - Virtual Commute Time, what are you doing with it? (2-4-1 10X Tuesdays) - Today's topics: (1) So I had a few days that I had to go into the office that were cancelled and it made e think how are people using their "virtual commute time"? My recommendation is to use it to grow yourself and plan it out. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. 5am Me...
Jun 18, 2024•11 min•Ep. 1297
#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,198 Live - One Review or Two (4R Thursdays) - Today's topics: (1) Lots of teams think all they should do is a story review with the PO or Stakeholder and then they don't need to do a Sprint Review. Its redundant! Well there are three sets of stakeholders that should be a part of any review besides the PO: Other stakeholders invested in the team the manager and the team itself.. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You ar...
Jun 13, 2024•15 min•Ep. 1296
#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,197 Live -Scrum Framework Built to Optimize both Individual and Team team Time (We Team & HR Wednesdays) - Today's topics: (1) Finding that balance between team and individual time and Scrum tries to frame that balance 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 1,197 went live on Youtube, LinkedIn and Facebook We Team & HR Wednesday ...
Jun 12, 2024•9 min•Ep. 1295
#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,196 Live - Being Thankful During Your Job Search (2-4-1 10X Tuesdays) - Today's topics: (1) Just reflecting on all the competition out there for jobs or career promotions and I realized that a practice of being Thankful might go a long way. Practicing Thankfulness for all the applications, the new connections and even rejections. Is it the extra edge you could use? Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are doing Great...
Jun 11, 2024•14 min•Ep. 1294
Thursday Night Interview Program with Viktoriia Kondratova Business Analyst and World Traveler from the USA to Ukraine and back again to the USA Interview No. 23. Viktoriia Kondratova business Analyst and ServiceNow experience BA successfully combines technical knowledge & ability to quickly grasp the core of business challenges organizations are facing, when trying to bring new IT products into their ecosystems. Because of positivity, open mind, dedication, and flexibility, I always find a ...
Jun 07, 2024•51 min•Ep. 1293
#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,195 Live -Onboarding New People with pre setups and if Onboarding is not documented then make it a part of their tasks during onboarding (We Team & HR Wednesdays) - Today's topics: (1) So many companies waste time not getting new hires up to speed with a good onboarding system. I would like to share documentation and setup ideas, that I use all the time or at least argue for. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You ...
Jun 05, 2024•15 min•Ep. 1292
#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,194 Live - Your Growth Journey Let Look at this Snake Skin (2-4-1 10X Tuesdays) - Today's topics: (1) Found this snake skin while getting my miles per day in. It made me think about your journey on your career path. Growing to a point, feeling restricted in your growth, finally deciding it was time to break through, struggling in the process to let go of restrictions and fears and the breaking through to ask what is next. You can do it alone like this snake, but ...
Jun 04, 2024•14 min•Ep. 1291
Big Dreams Made From Smaller Pieces, Turning No's into Yes's to Help along our Career Journey, Based on Greg Mester's new co-Authored Book "The Change: Insight's Into Self Empowerment" Sharing the audio portion of my seminar share at the Zip-inar online meeting held on May 29, 2024. The presentation seems to adjust little by little every time I give it and if you are interested in having me share the story at one of you local groups or even your business, I would be happy to. I adjust some of th...
Jun 02, 2024•27 min•Ep. 1290
Thursday Night Interview Program with Melissa O'Connell. Talking empathy and life coaching, Interview No. 22. Melissa O'Connell CEO and Founder. She Helps Empathic & Highly Sensitive Professional Women stay Positive, Productive & Profitable in Work & Life. Melissa is a Certified Life Coach, CEO/Founder of “Creative Girl Helping the World” and "The Biz Empath". Melissa is in book Volume 21 of the “Change Series Insights Into Self Empowerment”, with her section “The Biggest Obstacle We...
May 31, 2024•37 min•Ep. 1289
#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,193 Live - Getting Back into the Groove and Returning from Vacation (4R Thursdays) - Today's topics: (1) I think there might be a 5th R - recovery? Getting back into the groove after a vacation. 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 1,193 went live on Youtube, LinkedIn and Facebook 4R (Requirements, Reviews, Retros, Roles) Thu...
May 30, 2024•8 min•Ep. 1288
#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,192 Live - Fun Pirate Friday and Fortune Cookie (Fun Friday) - Today's topics: (1) I was enjoying watching "One Piece" on Netflix with my kids and the main character was creating his pirate flag wearing his straw hat. I figured we have done mascots for teams so why not pirate flags? and (2) Fortune Cookie Friday maybe we will find a buried treasure in the cookie. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Gre...
May 24, 2024•10 min•Ep. 1287
My recording from the IIBA Philadelphia May Chapter Meeting: taken from my co-Authored The Change Book presentation titled Big Dreams Made From Smaller Pieces, Turning No's into Yes's to Help along our Career Journey Greg brings stories about bringing people to work together, certification journeys, saying Yes to Yourself, assembling the F/A-18E/F Low Rate Initial Production Specification one engineer at a time that can be used along our career journey's as Business Analysts. Greg's solution is ...
May 24, 2024•30 min•Ep. 1286
#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,191 Live - New 4 R Thursdays - I added Roles to the topic area (4R Thursdays) - Today's topics: (1) So I was cleaning up the 5amMesterScrum slack group channel selection and it dawned on me that I should make room for role specific discussion and Thursday's made the most since Thursday is usual an R and roles starts with an R. Today's I'm sharing changes to the show content and slack channels after doing a little retro on myself. Please like and subscribe and sha...
May 20, 2024•17 min•Ep. 1285
Topic: Conversations about the Shifts in Agile Space and the Business Agility Institute/Scrum Alliance Skills In The New World Of Work Report This will be a dialog discussion between William Strydom, Integral Agilist, Professional Coach and Leadership Developer and Greg Mester co-Author of The Change Book Vol 20 and everyone in the meetup group. Thoughts: - Are Agile Roles Changing? - Businesses Looking for Something Different? - The Pie shape vs. T Shape background - Points made in the Reports ...
May 19, 2024•2 hr•Ep. 1284
#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,190 Live - Let the Team choose the Measure Unit (We Team & HR Wednesdays) - Today's topics: (1) We are in the process of debating measuring velocity with points or hours. If something has to be measured to help the team let the team make the call and not the manager scrum master or agile coach when possible. 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...
May 15, 2024•13 min•Ep. 1283
Thursday Night Interview Program with William Strydom. Talking Shifts in Agile Space, Interview No. 21. William Strydom, Integral Agilist, Professional Coach and Leadership Developer. An Agilist who is currently spreading the joy of modern ways of working and agility across teams, departments and organizations. He believes in evoking excellence in others. William and I met through Marsha Acker and her cohort activities towards earning IC Agile’s Expert in Agile Coaching program William's profile...
May 10, 2024•52 min•Ep. 1282
#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,189 Live - Oh No! Retro Got Cancelled! What do we Do? (3R Thursdays) - Today's topics: (1) So many times I hear scrum masters and agile coaches panic because the Retro got Cancelled. This happens more often than one might know. Things come up such as production issues, all-hands meetings or just people are sick. So what should we do? Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. 5am...
May 09, 2024•12 min•Ep. 1281
#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,188 Live - Maker, Team and Scope Manager Time (We Team & HR Wednesdays) - Today's topics: (1) I was listening to Alex Hormozi's podcast The Game and he was talking about conditions for success as a person or a team. He shared the ideas "maker" and "manager" time. How the maker time was quite dedicated time to creative work and then there was manager time. I wanted to share a twist to the idea s it might relate to Scrum with "maker aka Dev" time vs. "Team or G...
May 08, 2024•19 min•Ep. 1280
#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,187 Live - How are Those Goals? Using OKRs to Help with Frustration (2-4-1 10X Tuesdays) - Today's topics: (1) Just revisiting and preparing for Saturday's Webinar on Goal Setting with OKRs. At the last webinar people started right away on their goals and some rethought their goals on the why front. 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 Ligh...
May 08, 2024•16 min•Ep. 1279
Thursday Night Interview Program with Tanya Boyd. We'll be introducing Christopher Connor's new book "The Champion Leader", Interview No. 20. Tanya Boyd, PMP and PMI-ACP Creative Project Manager. 20+ years on cross-functional teams in the industries of healthcare, information technology, government services, disaster recovery, financial services and mortgage origination and now Chief Communications Officer for Championship Leadership. Tanya's profile https://www.linkedin.com/in/tanya-boyd-pmp-pr...
May 03, 2024•36 min•Ep. 1278
#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,186 Live - Letting Go of My EGO (2-4-1 10X Tuesdays) - Today's topics: (1) Egos have their Good and Bad side as some might say but in reality ego is just bad. It either just holds you back in a nice unchanging space or make you envious of others or even feel like something was stolen from you or you are just better than others. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. 5am Meste...
Apr 30, 2024•15 min•Ep. 1277
#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,185 Live - Adjusting Metric as We Go (Metric Monday) - Today's topics: (1) There are a million metrics we can use but the are all not need and sometimes we have to adjust our metric process of collection. 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 1,185 went live on Youtube, LinkedIn and Facebook Metric Monday 4/29/2023 from Philad...
Apr 29, 2024•13 min•Ep. 1276
Thursday Night Interview Program with Samara Andrieux. We'll be discussing Samara's her mission today of getting millions of hard-working people out of the predatory payday lending cycle in Interview No. 19. Samara Andrieux, Epidemiologist, Entrepreneur and Co-Founder of Fundshine. And we are going learn from her interesting journey and her mission. How can Fundshine help pay off a payday loan? Through Fundshine’s innovative process they are the first company to refinance payday loans by convert...
Apr 26, 2024•33 min•Ep. 1275
#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,184 Live - 1 - 2 Punch Sprint Review (3R Thursdays) - Today's topics: (1) I have Sprint Review on my mind and I wanted to share the concept of a 1 -2 Punch Sprint. Here the story is reviewed with a PO or single stakeholder during the sprint and then a group at Sprint Review. 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 1,184 went liv...
Apr 25, 2024•11 min•Ep. 1274
Podcast version from today's Live at 8am EST discussion at the Product Owner Summit 2024. Professional Product Owner Career. What Might That Look Like? I did put on a tie to look the professional part. I did not clip out the pre-topic time and left it in for some fun. Checkout the many videos at the Summit is producing. Some Great Topics. My topic is the Professional Product Owner. It is live so I will be as surprised as you all see you there youtube @productownersummit or their website and you ...
Apr 24, 2024•47 min•Ep. 1273
Today I will be Live at 8am EST as a part of the Product Owner Summit 2024. Rather than do a show today, I think it would be better to checkout the many video the Summit is producing. Some Great Topics. My topic is the Professional Product Owner. It is live so I will be as surprised as you all see you there youtube @productownersummit or their website and you can still buy a ticket https://productownersummit.org/ Happy Scrumming, Please Don't forget to sign up to our 5amMesterScrum newsletter fo...
Apr 24, 2024•3 min•Ep. 1272
#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,183 Live - Grow Career by Sharing (2-4-1 10X Tuesdays) - Today's topics: (1) People always ask me how do I become a scrum master, product owner, agile coach or whatever skill they want to work in. My response is share your skills in public. the 5amMesterScrum suite of options are available: Slack channel, blog submissions, interviews, masterminds and meetups. Think of it as a small venue with reach around the world. Reach out and join us. Please like and subscrib...
Apr 23, 2024•13 min•Ep. 1271
