5am Mester Scrum

#5amMesterScrum Show #617 Live - #Agile #Coaching is Like Playing Chess and Visualizing 5 Moves Ahead - Today's topic: (1) Agile coaching is not necessarily solving the problem in front, but how can we use the problem in front of us to learn an agile #mindset.  What agile tools and concepts can be applied to come up with a more robust solution?. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum....

#5amMesterScrum Show #617 Live - Free Team Agile Coaching Experiment for One Month - Today's topic: (1) I wanted to try an experiment as I see lots of self starting agile teams or small businesses trying agile and stumbling along.  I wanted to offer a free month of coaching for a team or organization with intro training to the agile mindset, ceremony coaching and individual coaching.  The only ask...

#5amMesterScrum Show #616 Live - Coach Managers or Bust - Today's topics: (1) Short show just saying how if you don't coach your team's managers in an agile mindset you are not really going to get far in a transformation. 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...

#5amMesterScrum Show #615 Live - A Real Good Scrum and Fortune Cookie Friday - Today's topics: (1) Yesterday I got to experience a real good daily scrum and I thought it would be nice to share it and how they got there or why I think they got there and (2) Fortune Cookie Friday: Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value to its scarcity.  This was a tough one. Please like and subscribe and sha...

#5amMesterScrum Show #614 Live - Working Product is King Way to Go SpaceX and #Agile #Scrum and IR35 the Perfect #HR Solution - Today's topics: (1) SpaceX did they finally landed the Starship and Jeff Bezos protest is cooked and (2) A connection of mine alerted me of IR35 rule in the UK about training contractors.  It turns out agile scrum and IR35 work perfectly together due to self organization....

#5amMesterScrum Show #613 Live - FTE vs. Contractor Training and #HR Fail, Value Mapping Thoughts for Small and Medium Organizations - Today's topics: (1) Most all Companies make a distinction between providing training for Full Time Employees (FTE) and contractors and that is a terrible HR decision when building teams of mixed make ups and (2) When people talk 3 weeks prep for value stream mappin...

#5amMesterScrum Show #612 Live - Go Slow to Go Fast, Coaching Tip with Planting Thoughts and my latest pet Peeve "Sign on Missing" - Today's topics: (1) I messed up and started with my pet peeve (this is why we set up norms so we can get through the show) UI/UX Fail, (2) Slow Down to Go Faster from the Tim Ottinger talk, by get rid of the queue because of less bugs and (3) Using a simple coaching...

#5amMesterScrum Show #611 Live - SAFe Epic Elevator Pitch and Skills based Retrospective alternative - Today's topics: (1) SAFe shares many topics that are helpful to any team, a real good one is the idea of Epic Elevator pitches just like we say and (2) From Philly XP Tim Ottinger shared a Skills share retrospective idea that was really good. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  P...

#5amMesterScrum Show #610 Live - Timeboxed Talk 4 Reasons to Use Them - Today's topic: (1) Timeboxes a great tool in a Scrum Master's Toolbox that does not get used enough.  We though 4 Why's to use Timeboxes in talking. As Enduring Agile commented on our show: ​Stop starting, start finishing Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You are are doing Great...

#5amMesterScrum Show #609 Live - Dangers of Scrum Masters Assuming they know what the Team Wants, Local Meetups and Fortune Cookie Friday - Today's topics: (1) I hear a lot of Scrum Masters coming up with solutions and I ask them who should you share with and many times the Scrum Team is the last answer but it should be the first.  There is a danger of the scrum master getting too close to the tea...

#5amMesterScrum Show #608 Live - Assuming People Talk, Wrong - Today's topics: (1) Scrum offers safe spaces to talk as a team, don't assume everyone get the change to talk and share elsewhere. 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 #607 Live - Falsehood of Assigning Work creating anti-Teaming solutions  - Today's topics: (1) The other day while we were cleaning up the sprint backlog we noticed a task that was not "assigned".  It was done but no one saw it nor said anything because it was not assign to them.  Assigning work can create Scrum anti-patterns and actual cause things to take more time to finish...

#5amMesterScrum Show #606 Live - Little League Tech Leads acting just like my kids coaches at battling practice - Today's topics: (1) So I'm watching my kid's softball and baseball coaches, going up each and every swing of the bat and repositioning the kid for the next swing. In my mind I see my Tech Leads tell my teams how to do stuff and even writing the tasks for them. Setting up for terrible m...

#5amMesterScrum Show #605 Live - #Motivation a positive Look via Space Station and #MVP exercise while Building Model Rockets - Today's topics: (1) Everyone needs Motivation and I was thinking Gary Vee's version is a little too depressing, so what about if you were on the ISS Space Station.  Would you sleep in?  Maybe one day just to do it, and (2) on the the Space theme let do a #MVP (Minimal Via...

#5amMesterScrum Show #604 Live - Netflix putting out Working Product so the Customer can Decide and our Number 1 Fan came to visit - Today's topics: (1) I was watching a Netflix series the other day and it just screamed working product to me.  I loved the way they provide multiple opportunities for actresses and actors to get work and opportunities.  They provide customer experiments with the shor...

#5amMesterScrum Show #603 Live - Pirates and Contractors Protecting your Company, Rockets and Again Working Software is King, and Fortune Cookie Friday  - Today's topics: (1) Again #SpaceX proves once Working Software is King and Reusable, (2) Watching a Pirate documentary and they talked how shipping companies would hire contractors to protect their assets, but the contractors would typically giv...

#5amMesterScrum Show #602 Live - Are You Really Transforming if you have not updated your working agreements in a long time? - Today's topic: (1) Are you transforming and stopped and only have one arm extended?  A manager asked me the other day how often do we update the working agreement.  That evolved into if you don't update the documents at least once a quarter are you really improving? Please...

#5amMesterScrum Show #601 Live - Sparkle Joy with a No Scrum Today Challenge - Today's topics: (1)  I hear it a lot, Why do we Hold Daily Scrum?  We talk all the time?  Ok, so then once a Sprint let us spend 15 minutes on something fun like a game, trivia, picture, last fun thing done, etc..  Why not take on that challenge. No formal Daily Scrum once a Sprint. Please like and subscribe and share 5...

#5amMesterScrum Show #600 Live - Working Software is King and SpaceX proves it with every launch and a new $3B Dollar contract, Fortune Cookie 600 and 5 New Coachees Welcome - Today's topics: (1)  Working Software is King and proven once again by SpaceX getting paid, (2) Fortune Cookie Celebrating 600 shows: People are drawn to you and look to you for advice and (3) on that note, I'm opening up fo...

#5amMesterScrum Show #599 Live - Ingenuity Agility on Mars Flies without Constant Oversight - Today's topics: (1)  Ingenuity Agility on Mars Flies without Constant Oversight, so people can self organized and work without someone telling them what to do and (2) Welcome our #Nebraska listener to our #podcast show.  I wanted to say Thank You. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Pleas...

#5amMesterScrum Show #598 Live - The #Agile #Sports Huddle and Welcome new #Podcast listener in #Egypt - Today's topics: (1) Watching #Softball and #Baseball with the kids an the team was huddling at the pitcher's mound holding their own version of an Agile Huddle.  They are planning how to accomplish the goal of getting the next player out and go back on offense.  That is what Daily Scrums or #St...

#5amMesterScrum Show #597 Live - Dreaded Micro Team of 1, Watch Out!  - Today's topics: (1) Organizations create these little micro teams within a team or even worst an actual Team of 1.  Watch out because that is so short term thinking and bad for companies. 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 #596 Live -Top 5 + 1 Things a Scrum Master Should Do and Fortune Cookie Friday  - Today's topics: (1) Scrum Master needs to do these 6 Things  and (2) Fortune Cookie Friday: Ones always regrets what could have done. Remember for next time.  That worked well with item number 6. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You are are doing...

#5amMesterScrum Show #595 Live - #HR Outlook 3 Time Zone Rule and  Open vs. To Do - Today's topics: (1) When build remote agile teams my wish is that HR and managers would limit the number of time zones to 3 as that is the limit in Outlook and (2) Setting up work flow to start with a state or status of "Open" and not "To Do" as open means to me open for discussion and does not mean we will work it...

#5amMesterScrum Show #594 Live - Practice Sharing vs "Best" and using Silent sub-Tasking when making Toast - Today's topics: (1) Offering the words "Practice Sharing" vs. a pet peeve "Gold Standard" or "Best" or "Common" practice and (2) Follow-up to show 593 our Making Toast discussion and using Silent Writing to discover a good set of sub-tasks for your stories. Hopefully minimizing the habit of...