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#5amMesterScrum Show 718 Live - Mountain Cabin Good Value sharing a sunrise - Today's topic: (1) Exploring the rising sun from the mountain top during our mini vacation.  Noticing the minimization of gold plating in how the chairs are set on the deck. 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 Show 717 Live - Mountain Cabin Good Value verse hotel where do we get most value - Today's topic: (1) Day two of the mini vacation and we are in time for sunset at the cabin in the hills of the Skyline Mountains (Blue Ridge Mountains VA) .  Just like a business has to figure out where to spend the money and get the most value.  Enjoy the view. Please like and subscribe and share 5a...

#5amMesterScrum Show 716 Live - Spending money on what really returns value - Today's topic: (1) This is a a real quick show from my mini-vacation 1st night from Luray Caverns VA.  Where we stayed in a cheap motel vs. an expensive hotel because we wanted to save our money for the next couple of nights in a cabin in the hills of the Skyline Mountains (Blue Ridge Mountains VA) .  Just like a busines...

#5amMesterScrum Show 715 Live - Agile in Movie Production and I mean the real movie set production - Today's topic: (1) So they are filming an Adam Sandler movie on my block, lterally out my door today.  Watching the movie production operations it is so Agile Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. 5am Meste...

#5amMesterScrum Show 714 Live - PI Planning Walking the Digital Room - Today's topic: (1) I realized that there are many people participating in PI Planning this year that have never attended on in person or it might have been years ago.  They forgot about walking the room! Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sha...

#5amMesterScrum Show 713 Live - Setting Bad Habits and Fortune Cookie Saturday - Today's topics: (1) We talked the other dat about good habits and scrum events, but we should also talk about the pitfalls of setting bad habits and (2) Fortune Cookie Saturday: Hope is the Best Stimulant of life Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You are are doing Great...

#5amMesterScrum Show 712 Live - Sprint Review: Scared of Customer, a Cure? - Today's topic: (1) Missing deadlines or scared to meet with the customer? Sprint Reviews are a Great way to get over the barrier.  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 #agile #business #scr...

#5amMesterScrum Show 711 Live - The Hammer Scrum Master or the fluffy dog toy insides? - Today's topic: (1) There is a delicate balance between being a hammer on a team to get there work done and being way too fluffy.  Being a Scrum Master can be a difficult position. Are you the Hammer, The Pick or Fluffy Doggie Toy or somewhere in between? Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Ple...

#5amMesterScrum Show 710 Live - Scrum All About Good Habits - Today's topic: (1) Dive into the Good Habits of Scrum.  If you read any self help book they are all about establishing Good Habits 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 #agile #business #scrummaster #agile...

#5amMesterScrum Show 709 Live - One Person Did the Job for the past 3 years, A School Year Start Story - Today's topic: (1) Back to those team of 1 stories and in this case a friend of mine, almost didn't make the bus home from school because one teacher did the job of getting the kids on the bus for the past 3 years and now she left Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send...

#5amMesterScrum Show 708 Live - Story Points using Definition of Ready DoR to help size stories - Today's topic: (1) Story pointing or sizing is always a hard to do topic and I would like to explore using your team's Definition of Ready to help size and other things Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. 5a...

#5amMesterScrum Show 707 Live - Story Points are Never Arbitrary, but are also never really comparable with other teams - Today's topic: (1) I was listening to another coach at a seminar and the coach kept referring to story pointing as arbitrary, which is essentially wrong!  Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You are are doing Great Please Keep on S...

#5amMesterScrum Show 706 Live - Bringing Home the Bacon in Baseball and Work plus Fortune Cookie Friday  - Today's topic: (1) Went to Iron Pigs minor league baseball and there was no bacon but they committed to tons of the stuff and Bringing home the bacon at work reflecting on post by Allen Holub about salary and (2) Fortune Cookie Friday: Empty Commitments Please like and subscribe and share 5am...

#5amMesterScrum Show 705 Live - Camping Recon Spike Example with Value and People and their I will stay in My Little Bubble  - Today's topic: (1) Went on a Recon mission to check out a camping site for the girl scout, spikes with value and (2) People staying in their little bubble and not looking at the team as a whole. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topic...

#5amMesterScrum Show 704 Live - Not Adapting nor Expanding, the story of a little Polish Church or Any Business or Team  - Today's topic: (1) So Sunday was the last Mass at my little Polish Church, as there are not enough people going.  So how does this mean anything to you, your team or business or Being Agile? Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You...

#5amMesterScrum Show 703 Live - McD's Food kiosk software test, watching customers, Classic Why the developers and Product Owners should not operate software in Sprint Review  - Today's topic: (1) So Friday the kids and I stopped by McD's for fires and we got the full CX (Customer Experience) of their new kiosk software and I watched another customer just get totally frustrated.  It was a prime ex...

#5amMesterScrum Show 702 Live - Resist The Urge For 1 More Point before Sprint Close and Fortune Cookie Friday - Today's topic: (1) The is some kind of Urge or Pull the people get obsessed with and that is Geeting Those Few more Points Done at the end of a Sprint.  Well Resist It!  and (2) Fortune Cookie Friday. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You...

#5amMesterScrum Show 701 Live - Four (4) +1 Secrets to Success that Apply to Scrum - Today's topic: (1) Again I was watching a Leadership video and they said successful people do things they don't like to do, and we are listing 4 Things that make Teams successful in Scrum but they don't like doing. Actually I gave 5 items, since it was live. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Ple...

#5amMesterScrum Show 700 Live - 700th Episode that is quite a few and Fortune Cookie Celebration - Today's topic: (1) Celebrating 700 show with a fortune cookie and the fortune cookie says: Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. 5am Me...

#5amMesterScrum Show 699 Live - What is Your Value? As Scrum Master/ As Agile Coach? - Today's topic: (1) I was watching something on bring value to others around you and I thought how do we as scrum masters and agile coaches show how we bring value. This also relates to teh question, when can we drop the scrum master or agile coach? Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send...

#5amMesterScrum Show 698 Live - Daily Scrum Dev Only Attendance, No! and here we go again with the 3 questions - Today's topic: (1) From the 2020 Scrum guide "The daily scrum is a 15 minute event for the developers of the scrum team"  Big mistake by non-thinking people that Product Owners, Scrum Masters and even stakeholders should not attend.  It is the 3 question screw up all over again. Please...

#5amMesterScrum Show 697 Live - Fortune Cookie Friday, Keeping it Simple - Today's topic: (1) Fortune Cookie Friday and applying it to agile or scrum. Two things came out of today's fortune cookie (1) Diversity is good and (2) Thinking quicker before doing or coding will probably give you a better solution. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You are...

#5amMesterScrum Show 696 Live - High Performing Teams Velocity is OK but Value is Better - Today's topic: (1) So in Theory the velocity metric can cap out, so I propose a better metric for high performing or any team and that is a metric of value or return on efforts. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing....

#5amMesterScrum Show 695 Live - Over 40hrs a week, is Not a High Performing Team - Today's topic: (1) Contrary to popular belief working over 40 hours in a week to get stuff done in a sprint is NOT the sign of a high performing 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 #5amMesterScrum #s...

5amMesterScrum Show 694 Live - Agile Vacation, How applying Agile to our little vacation gave us the Most Value - Today's topic: (1) Keeping our time box short and avoiding a Hurricane to get the most out of our 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 #5amMesterScrum #scrum #agile #...