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#5amMesterScrum Show 1,040 Live - Building a Data Foundation for capturing general work product (Metric Monday) - Today's topics: (1) So many teams say "I can't get it Done because of this or that"  Well show me the data.  I'm going to share how to collect that data. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. 5...

#5amMesterScrum Show 1,039 Live - Space Station Creation and Integration Fun y Fortune Cookie (Fun Friday) - Today's topics: (1) Have some fun building and integrating a space station with the team 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,...

#5amMesterScrum Show 1,038 Live - Core Double Diamond Retrospective Team Exploration (Retro Thursday) - Today's topics: (1) Team Retrospective vs. what the scrum master or agile coach says retrospective.  Using the double diamond as a base for all your retros. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. 5am Mest...

#5amMesterScrum Show 1,037 Live - Using bugs to get the team to work together, a neat little technique to get better quality and a little team work moving along the way (We Team Wednesday) - Today's topics: (1) Bugs are the perfect introduction place for XP or Extreme Programming on a small reasonable scale.  And we can use Priority and team norms to trigger the teaming activity. Please like and s...

#5amMesterScrum Show 1,036 Live - "Mature" Team and Metrics not valuable, Now is the Time to You^2 The Team (2-4-1 Tuesday 10X) - Today's topics: (1) Yesterday show 1035 we talked about metrics becoming obsolete as a team mature, well it is now time to shift the curve to a new level.  Think 10X or You^2 (squared). Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   Y...

#5amMesterScrum Show 1,035 Live - Acceleration Metric aging Out and Becoming Obsolete (Metric Monday) - Today's topics: (1) Metrics do become obsolete as team mature.  The acceleration metric is a great metric for teams that are learning and growing, but at some point you have to change the metric. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You are are doing...

#5amMesterScrum Show 1,034 Live - Gamification of Yard Sales and Fortune Cookie Friday (Fun Friday) - Today's topics: (1) I saw a few Gary Vee marketing videos pop up on my feed and I though maybe a fun thing would be to create a fun game involving yard sales and (2) Fortune Cookie Friday Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You are are doing Great Ple...

#5amMesterScrum Show 1,033 Live - Why Retro?  What's in it for ME?  5 Reasons (Retro Thursday) - Today's topics: (1) Many people in almost every place I go say why do we need to retro.  I see no value.  Well we have to help them see value. 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 S...

#5amMesterScrum Show 1,032 Live - Calendar Hack No More Blank Blocks for Work in your Calendar (We Team Wednesday) - Today's topics: (1) I was listening to the Ed Mylett and Happy Engineer podcasts and he was saying how he puts specific tasks in his calendar and I was like wow we can put our scrum tasks in work block and no more blank work saving.  Plus it is a handy Sprint Planning Hack. Please l...

#5amMesterScrum Show 1,031 Live - 2-4-1 Planning for Career Growth on your calendar and with OKRs (2-4-1 10x Tuesday) - Today's topics: (1) Listening to Happy Engineer podcast and he talked about scheduling for career growth in your calendar and I wanted to add OKRs to your thought process. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You are are doing Great P...

#5amMesterScrum Show 1,030 Live - Fun Squeeze with 4th Question and Fortune Cookie (Fun Friday) - Today's topics: (1) Having troubles fitting in fun into a work culture?  Try small bites like a 4th question just before holiday's or weekends:  What Fun do you have Planned for the Weekend?  Something quick simple and short and (2) Fortune Cooke Friday Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScr...

#5amMesterScrum Show 1,029 Live - A Non-Traditional Retro can be useful  (Retrospective Thursday) - Today's topics: (1) The traditional retro much like those 3 question at daily scrum is pretty simple but can be scattered and non focused.  What went Well, Not Go Well and what can be better.  I'm offering that it is OK to pre-pick a topic and really explore with the team. and (2) Veterans Special -...

#5amMesterScrum Show 1,028 Live - An Honest take on the Value Add by a Team Discussion  (We Team Wednesday) - Today's topics: (1) In scrum and even myself we push the value of teams.  Sometimes people say the Team is the only way to go or the best way to 10x your value in a story or product. Is that true? Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You are ar...

#5amMesterScrum Show 1,027 Live - Sharing your Profession with Our 5amMesterScrum Agile and Scrum Sharing & Interactive Meetup  (2-4-1 Tuesday 10x Yourself) - Today's topics: (1) I have always believed that Professionals share and their reward for sharing was career growth and opportunity.  With that we are reaching out and offering opportunities to practice sharing with a group of other agile fol...

#5amMesterScrum Show 1,026 Live - Velocity is Not a Performance Metric but a Planning Metric  (Metric Monday) - Today's topics: (1) Listening to JJ Sutherland a few weeks ago and he said an interesting comment about Velocity and that it is not a performance metric but a planning one. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You are are doing Great Please K...

5amMesterScrum May 17, 2023 Meetup presentation about Scrum Master Relationship Value Stream (SMRVS) Presented by Scott Sampson Details: Scrum Masters may feel that the only way to drive software and product success is to solely focus on the developers on a project. However, there is more than meets the eye (and ear) when trying to ensure a smooth flow of information for quality product delivery....

#5amMesterScrum Show 1,025 Live - Crazy Hats and Fortune Cookie  (Fun Friday) - Today's topics: (1) I have my (actually my son's) Goofy hat from Disney and in this vacation mindset a Crazy Hat day sounds fun for a team 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 5a...

#5amMesterScrum Show 1,024 Live - Retrospecting on Vacation Return and impacts on Velocity or capacity  (Retro Thursday) - Today's topics: (1) Got back on Monday from vacation and it seemed like I needed a vacation from my vacation and reminded me of the mistake that scrum masters, project managers and people in general make when they return from vacation.  They assume they will be right back wher...

#5amMesterScrum Show 1,023 Live - Resisting Telling the Team What They Should Do - Building a Stronger Team is not necessarily the Best (We Team Wednesday) - Today's topics: (1) So many "agile" people want to tell teams what they should do, but they should really be facilitating and mentoring as they encourage the team to decide and as a result they become stronger. Please like and subscribe and s...

#5amMesterScrum Show 1,022 Live Take 2 - Servant Leader Stepping In When needed (2-4-1 Tuesday 10x your day) - Today's topics: (1) Just wanted to share an experience as a servant leader in a non-IT role and how sometime servant leaders just have to step up and do the job the team works on.  It should not happen daily and should be retrospected on why/  Also Kanban is not really kanban without a te...

#5amMesterScrum Show 1,019 Live - We Make Great Code, Having the Team Show off their Tech Skills and How They Did It (We Wednesday) - Today's topics: (1) So many Agile coaches and Scrum Masters miss out on a Great Opportunity by only Focusing on the Product at Sprint Review.  We should really include the opportunity for the Team to show off their tech skills to each other and learn from each other...

#5amMesterScrum Show 1,018 Live - Increase Your Skills Now and translate them into experience plus don't slow the team down because you don't understand (2-4-1 Tuesday #10x yourself) - Today's topics: (1) Listening to the Happy Engineer podcast and the had Dr. Ruth on talking success factors and going back to the skills we learned at 20 and then Ed Mylett show talking the business R word (recess.....

#5amMesterScrum Show 1,017 Live - Metrics to Create Good Habits (Metric Monday) - Today's topics: (1) So many are so negative on metrics.  I would like to argue that metrics can be used to help set up good habits.  My son and me to follow are using metrics to establish a good health exercise program every day. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You a...

#5amMesterScrum Show 1,016 Live - Fun Friday Search & Share and Fortune Cookie v. Fortune ChatGPT - Today's topics: (1) A simple fun exercise that can happen out side meeting with a simple search for weekend events and share and (2) Fortune Cookie Friday Special Cookie Fortune v. ChatGPT Fortune Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You are are doing Gr...

As a part of a new Afterhours Series we are Interviewing Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches, Product Owners, Managers, Entrepreneurs, Agile People, etc..  with a goal to release the interviews Weekly on Thursday Nights at 8pm EST Our 6th Interview is with Scott Sampson who is also presenting at our 5/17/2023 Meetup on The Scrum Master's Relationship Value Stream (SMRVS) .  Scottis Scott is a certifed Ag...