5am Mester Scrum

Guest Host Eddie is like is it 5am and time to do the show. I'm like it sure is. Talking getting together with Family and bringing new software capabilites to the customer.  in this case a slight modification to a bar code bracelet at a water park would definitely 10x their revenue. Happy Scrumming 5amMesterScrum Social Media: - search 5amMesterScrum or #5amMesterScrum  and you should find us and...

#5amMesterScrum Show 692 Live - Just Linking Epics is Wrong, Don't Stop There in PI or Quarterly Planning - Today's topic: (1) People in many place just do what the framework says and in the case of PI or Large Planning they all say identify dependencies between Epic and teams stop there.  Wrong!  You need to take it to the story level like SpaceX did with their booster fit check. Please like and...

#5amMesterScrum Show 691 Live - Don't Stop Keep Going, Job Search and Getting People to Update their Systems - Today's topic: (1) Scrum Masters ask me all the time how long do I have to keep asking people to update the System or Speak at Events?  Plus I find my old resume application log book from 1990. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You are are...

#5amMesterScrum Show 690 Live - Proposing a Take It Easy Day Event for Scrum - Today's topic: (1) Companies talk Agile and self-organizing a lot, so why not have a take it easy day maybe once every 2 sprints or quarter where the teams can do whatever they want.  No planned out briefs on what did they improve during their free day. Give them trust and don't expect anything in return. Please like an...

#5amMesterScrum Show 689 Live - Attitude Secret of Team and You (a member of the team or Scrum Master) is Important - Today's topic: (1) Watching a video this morning on How "Attitude" is the key to life and I would add is the key to 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 S...

#5amMesterScrum Show 688 Live - Sprint (scrum) v Marathon (waterfall) and Fortune Cookie Friday - Today's topics: (1) Recalling the Olympic Games and the Sprinting vs. Marathon and comparing them to Scrum vs. Waterfall.  And I ask do you start a sprint without your shoe then why do you start a sprint with unfinished dependencies?  and (2) Fortune Cookie Friday Ambition knows no obstacles. Please l...

#5amMesterScrum Show 687 Live - Growing Meetings Beyond What they Are Supposed to be or Just Checking a Box for those Agile Accountants - Today's topic: (1) Scrum of Scrum SoS or PO Syncs or Status Meetings all have a tendency to grow in scope.  You have to fight against that.  So I talk about the practical setup and what to be mindful of especially the time box and what fits. Please like and subs...

5amMesterScrum Show 686 Live - Back to Work Velocity is Going Down, #HR please remind Leaders to take it easy - Today's topic: (1) In continuation of our fun at work series, when people come back to work. Please give them space in the velocity, so they can have re-bond and enjoy it.  HR if we don't make the transition better than cold then you will have your work cut out for you. Please like and s...

#5amMesterScrum Show 685 Live - Doing Scrum Fun Wrong, It is Not Supposed to Happen Only in Retros.  I propose a New Scrum Event called "Fun Time" - Today's topic: (1) Having fun is supposed to happen throughout a Sprint and not just at the Retrospective.  I think Scrum Masters don't do Scrum justice by only having improvement related fun.  They should encourage a smaller commitment and more team...

#5amMesterScrum Show 684 Live - OKRs Done Wrong by All, Don't Map every issue to a OKR! - Today's topic: (1) So I was listening to leaders that transform their organizations and they all have something in common.  Have Big Goals!  OKRs are supposed to be that but big business and consultants are using OKR wrong!.  They are not supposed to map to everything you are doing as a company. Please like a...

5amMesterScrum Show 683 Live - User Experience (UX) vs Customer Experience (CX) - Today's topic: (1) I think we took the customer meaning out and transferred it into user experience and thereby, lower the bar of satisfaction for the customer.  Elevate it to "As the Customer, I want ..So that.." Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You are are doing Gre...

5amMesterScrum Show 682 Live - Commitment and Handoffs Missed, Philadelphia Cheese Fries and Fortune Cookie Friday - Today's topics: (1) Eddie and I wanted to share some Philadelphia Cheese Fries with Cheese Whiz, (2) Talking missing Commitments and causing issues for otehrs like our hotel stay after the fire and (3) Fortune Cookie Friday: Walk the words you talk and talk the words you walk. A per...

#5amMesterScrum Show 681 Live - Arguing w/ Customer No Win, Story of a Terrible Hotel Stay - Today's topic: (1) My recent stay at a hotel for just under 3 weeks made me really think about "Customer" experience vs. "User" Experience. Plus a lack of agreement that the systems in place don't always work. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You are are do...

#5amMesterScrum Show 680 Live - Common Mistake Not Coaching Managers, Coaching Up! - Today's topic: (1) A common mistake made by agile coaches, scrum masters and even myself is not coaching managers as they need to understand this new thing called Agile and if they don't have time for you then they need coaching even more.  Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your t...

#5amMesterScrum Show 679 Live - Tinker with CI/CD, I think it is the wrong area to get Value to the Customer  - Today's topic: (1) Organizations spend so much effort on CI/CD or DevOps but is that really the right place to bring value to the customer? 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 678 Live - Customer Forefront, Customer Feedback Loops in the Products and Services we Provide  - Today's topic: (1) So staying in the hotel due to the house fire, has brought to the forefront the lack of customer feedback loops in our products.  We talk feedback in our team design but lack it in our products.  We need to fix that. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMester...

#5amMesterScrum Show 677 Live - When is the Scrum Master Not Needed, I hear that all the time - Today's topics: (1) So I hear all the time from managers, when is the scrum master or even agile coach no longer needed, well I see two things scrum master needed to do: 1) Transform themselves into more of a coach and 2) be more transparent about the value they contribute. Please like and subscribe and...

#5amMesterScrum Show 676 Live - Agile Accountants Strike Again, Agile in Academia  and Fortune Cookie Friday - Today's topics: (1) Agile Accountants strike twice: One (agile coach) saying you have to reorganize everything because everyone shall be co-located and the other saying put everything in Jira (Oh No!), (2) Applying agile and scrum to Academia the right way and (3) Fortune Cookie Friday: I...

#5amMesterScrum Show 675 Live - Scrum Master (SM) Solutions Bad Idea  - Today's topic: (1) Scrum Masters should not create solutions for the team and here are at least 3 reasons why.. 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 #agilecoach #co...

#5amMesterScrum Show 674 Live - Post House Fire MVP, It is not the Solution that is MVP but the Need, That's a common mistake by organizations - Today's topic: (1) Walk through Four (4) MVP Needs from our post house fire event.  Then the systems process of developing options, investigating and implementing solutions, plus learning from each solution option. Please like and subscribe and share 5amM...

#5amMesterScrum Show 673 Live - Value On Time Delivery vs. More Stuff - Today's topic: (1) The financial and budgetary impacts of over committing and the battle in valuing On-Time Delivery verse More Stuff (over Committing). 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 #agi...

#5amMesterScrum Show 672 Live - Giant Done Issue Piles, Millions of old Done Issues Cluttering and slowing your systems down - Today's topic: (1) I have been to quite a few Big Companies that house Millions of PBIs in their agile systems.  Those companies don't understand how their system were designed and built.  They are not archiving systems nor should they be.  Making available stuff done a ye...

#5amMesterScrum Show 671 Live - Using Scrum on your Agile Marketing Team and Fortune Cookie Friday - Today's topics: (1) Using Scrum to get Good Marketing Content in a Time Box.  Here is a secret most agile coaches don't know what marketing is and companies confuse marketing and sales and (2) Fortune Cookie Friday : Be patient, pleasant and open and you will see more truths.  Please like and subsc...

#5amMesterScrum Show 670 Live - Basement Backlog Cleanup Getting Rid Old Stuff to make Space for New Fun Stuff - Today's topic: (1) My wife and I cleaned out our basement of 20 years of projects. Stuff we said were going to use, but never did.  That same has to be applied to our work backlogs, if you have stuff over a year old, archive it and get it off your backlog.  It drags down the velocity of...

#5amMesterScrum Show 669 Live - Automatic Processing Gone Bad and more t-shirts - Today's topics: (1) A new white t-shirt came yesterday XL fits nicely and (2) A Story of Automatic Processing Gone Bad a tale of how Product Owners and Developers need to use their own product to ensure what they are offering works as envisioned.  Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me yo...