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#5amMesterScrum Show 742 Live - The Story of The Fly and The Scrum Team  - Today's topic: (1) Companies, Teams and Individuals are not truly using the Scrum Framework.  Maybe telling a a story about a little fly will help explain. They are using scrum in a way that prevents teamwork. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You are are doing Great Please K...

#5amMesterScrum Show 742 Live - Scrum Master Job - Today's topic: (1) Typically Scrum Masters say Remove Impediments and Managers say Teach Scrum Mechanical, well I want to talk about a 3rd Facilitation.  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 #agile #scrum #coaching #philad...

#5amMesterScrum Show 741 Live - Rapid Value Fibonacci Compare and Spike week for Quick Product Check and Fortune Cookie Friday - Today's topic: (1) Everyone wants to speed up the development process, but is that really the long process step to delivering value to the customer?  Using Rapid Value estimation and Spike Week is a great combination to see if it worth spending months in requirements, an...

#5amMesterScrum Show 740 Live - Top 5 Daily Scrum Speaking Order concerns and How to do it - Today's topic: (1) I have talked many times in the past about Speaking order in Daily Scrum.  There are all kinds of weighing factors and etc... but you know what? Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. 5am Mester S...

#5amMesterScrum Show 739 Live - Mountain Journey of Change, with Retros, Kaizen and Evolution Sprints - Today's topic: (1) Someone today talked about a retro with a mountain in it.  To me the mountain was change and the journey it takes.  It made me think of a combination of retrospectives, kaizen and quarterly Evolution Weeks. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me yo...

#5amMesterScrum Show 738 Live - People Don't Resist Change, People Resist Being Changed, Common mistake made by managers, agile coaches and scrum masters - Today's topic: (1) I hear it all the time that people resist change and the other day I heard a good point that people don't like to be changed.  So many Agile people try to change people vs. helping then to change themselves. Please like and s...

#5amMesterScrum Show 737 Live - Transparency minimizes Misleading Statements - Today's topic: (1) Nothing gets me more frustrated then people marking everything as green when all the indicators are transparent and it isn't that Green! 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 #...

#5amMesterScrum Show 736 Live - Feedback Good and Bad is a Good Thing - Today's topic: (1) Revisiting the concept of getting no  feedback is terrible. 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 #agile #scrum #coaching #philadelphia #philly #feedback #review #customer #team 5am M...

#5amMesterScrum Show 735 Live - Apple Picking Customers Are All Different - Today's topic: (1) The Family went Apple picking today and we realized that All Customer like different things. 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 #agile #scrum #coaching #philadelphia #philly #c...

#5amMesterScrum Show 734 Live - Retro: Timebox is Fixed, How can I be more productive? and Fortune Cookie Friday - Today's topics: (1) The Time box should be fixed, so how can I be more productive? We talk about retrospective on this with the team and (2) Fortune Cookie Friday: It takes courage to lead a life. Any life. #5amMesterScrum #agile #scrum #coaching #philadelphia #philly #productive #ret...

#5amMesterScrum Show 733 Live - New Daily Scrum Question, What Bugs You that you are going to fix today? - Today's topic: (1) I was watching UpFlip on youtube and they had someone talking kaizen.  His small company's kaizen comes when people in his company fix things that bug them.  They stop production and fix it then and there. #5amMesterScrum #agile #scrum #coaching #philadelphia #philly #kaize...

#5amMesterScrum Show 732 Live - Crazy Team Goal Week - Challenging the Mind is Fun - Today's topic: (1) Every self help book on the planet talks about setting Goals.  I would like to suggest creating a crazy Goal Week along side OKRs and allow your team to create a really challenging goal to work in a quarter. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You a...

#5amMesterScrum Show 731 Live - Agile Career Sideways Moves, Top 5 - Today's topic: (1) I get a lot of Scrum Masters saying they would like to be an agile coach.  Here are my 5 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 731 went live on Youtube Tuesday 10/12/2021...

#5amMesterScrum Show 730 Live - Content Testing and the Forgotten Email Review - Today's topic: (1) I got an email from my bank over the weekend and it turns out to be one of the worst canned emails.  Even when the help desk read it they said it was bad! Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. 5am Mester Scr...

#5amMesterScrum Show 729 Live - Multi-purpose People, A #HR Good or Bad Idea, Talking Developer/Testers or Scrum Master/Just about Anything - Today's topic: (1) We went garage sale finding again the other day and we found a neat camping shovel and it made me think about the whole concept of Developers being Testers or Scrum Masters being multi-role. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScr...

#5amMesterScrum Show 728 Live - Large vs. Small Sprint Backlogs and Fortune Cookie Friday - Today's topic: (1) I have seen large backlogs for sprints and small backlogs.  Which one is better and why and (2) Fortune Cookie Friday: Many pleasurable and memorable adventures are in store for you! Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You are are doing Great...

#5amMesterScrum Show 727 Live - Calendar Week: Me Time - Today's topic: (1) So I found myself not waking up pre-5am this past week.  So I needed a motivation item, which is now called "Me Time"!  I use it to recharge and find items that make me passionate about stuff, so I'm motivated. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You are are doing Great Please...

#5amMesterScrum Show 726 Live - Calendar Week: Coaching Agendas (or the missed opportunity to coach) when meetings are missing agendas - Today's topic: (1) So many people I meet say they don't attend meetings that lack agendas. I counter to those people if they take that opportunity to coach about the value of agendas in meeting invites. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please...

#5amMesterScrum Show 725 Live - Calendar Week: Filling Up Time in our calendars- Today's topic: (1) A series of calendar and time manage topics with this being about blocking off time in our calendars, so people can't book them up. 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...

#5amMesterScrum Show 724 Live - Yard Sale Picking and Work Backlogs I bet you never thought they mixed, alternate title: Is your Product Owner a Hoarder? - Today's topic: (1) So in the late edition of our show, my son and I went yard sale picking at 7am.  It was a fun father and son outing that made me really think about product backlog and value.  Your backlog is a big flipping business. Please l...

#5amMesterScrum Show 723 Live - Dreaded 1 Hr Daily Scrum  and fortune cookie Friday- Today's topic: (1) I many companies I have met over the years I find the Dreaded 1 Hr Daily Scrum calendar bookings.  So what they say well it was funny people ask and (2) Fortune Cookie Friday.   Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You are are doing Great Please Keep...

#5amMesterScrum Show 722 Live - Facilitating Virtual  Meeting a Story of Mistakes - Today's topic: (1) The other day I was hosting a virtual training session and was going to record it as a part of my final Expert Coaching Certification for ICAgile.  Well I made a few mistakes that I would like to share so anyone can learn from them including myself. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterSc...

#5amMesterScrum Show 721 Live - Lunch and Learns, aka Brown Bag Sessions, a Terrible Idea - Today's topic: (1) In the days when companies would buy lunch for a lunch and learn they were useful tools.  Now Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches your stuff is not that Great to ask for people to listen to you during lunch breaks.  You are being cheap and not respecting your teams. Please like and subscribe...

#5amMesterScrum Show 720 Live - Retro: Opportunity for Radical Change - Today's topic: (1) I have come to the realization that after 4-6 sprints we are doing Retrospectives Wrong!  Why? We should be looking for radical change! 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 #a...

#5amMesterScrum Show 719 Live - Everyday Become Better - Today's topic: (1) Doing some reading and learning over my camping retreat weekend,  All the Billionaires do it: They become better at what they do verse doing more which is a mistake most teams make. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. 5am Mester...