5am Mester Scrum

#5amMesterScrum Show #593 Live - Toast and sub-Tasks, What is the Sweet Spot for sub-tasks and How to visualize it and our New Meetup - Today's topics: (1) I was watching the TED Talk on How to Make Toast by Tom Wujec and I thought it played out well with getting teams to sub-task stories and (2) Our New Meet-up virtual group experiment with lean coffee, lightning talks, coaching circles and lots...

#5amMesterScrum Show #592 Live - #Enterprise #Transform Step 5 of a 5 part series and Step 5 is actually Enterprise Transformation and Not Scaling which is different - Today's topics: (1) I'm sharing my thoughts and how I transform an organization as a single #agile coach.  Which is not true scaling but an enterprise transformation. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send...

#5amMesterScrum Show #591 Live Late Night Edition - #Enterprise #Transform Step 4 of a 5 part series and Step 4 is Mechanics and Metrics, plus Fortune Cookie Friday and I ask the questions why does agile revolve around drinking? - Today's topics: (1) I ask the question why drinking and agile, (2) getting Mechanics before Metrics, plus which metrics and (3) Fortune Cookie Friday: The road to succes...

#5amMesterScrum Show #590 Live - #Enterprise #Transform Step 3 of a 5 part series and Step 3 is Coaching The Team and Thank You #Agile #Coaching #Auckland #NZ for the t-shirt - Today's topics: (1) Coaching Leads is my 1st concentration and for something New I would like to recommend the ICAgile ACC (disclaimer I teach this) for Tech Leads and I explain why, and (2) For the Team and the developers...

#5amMesterScrum Show #589 Live - Enterprise Transform Step 2 of a 5 part series and Step 2 is Picking Teams #HR Training and Conversations - Today's topics: (1) Step 2 is about training the teams and picking the make up of teams. Think "Pairs" or "Pairing" when assembling a team, and (2) Communication Tools for conversations and not emails. Agile is all about Conversations in real time. Please lik...

#5amMesterScrum Show #588 Live - Enterprise Transform Step 1 of a 5 part series and Step 1 is Introduce and Train the Managers - Today's topic: (1) I have had lots of enterprise transformation questions lately, so I will a 5 part session with key stuff.  This is about training the managers and getting them on board early. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your top...

#5amMesterScrum Show #587 Live - Sprint Planning Part A (picking stories) and Part B (Tasking Stories)  and Thanks for 5,000 #Podcast Downloads - Today's topic: (1) Something they hint at but don't explain that Sprint Planning is really two parts.  Part A 5minutes to 1 hour and Part B the balance up to 4 hours for a two week sprint Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send m...

#5amMesterScrum Show #586 Live - Get Everyone in the Game - Today's topic: (1) One of my Scrum Master's was talking about getting all the kids into a baseball game and I thought what a great analogy "How do we Get Everyone into the Game of Scrum?"  My suggestion is to start small with the Daily Scrum and Team Norms and go from there. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send...

#5amMesterScrum Show #585 Live - Worried About How Viewed by Others and Fortune Cookie Friday - Today's topics: (1) Watching Gary Vee earlier and his comment struck a chord with me, "Stop Worrying about what others think!."  Its key to making Scrum and Agile work.  Question how to get there? How do we build trust? What should a Leader do? and (2) Fortune Cookie Friday: No man is a failure who is e...

#5amMesterScrum Show #584 Live - Business Continuity Scrum April Fools Edition - Today's topics: (1) Business Continuity is Scrum by Definition.  Future Scrum Master (actually SEPTA Driver) Eddie gives his take on business continuity and pranks everyone. I'm training my replacement for future business continuity. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   Yo...

#5amMesterScrum Show #583 Live - Project Behind Before Start when you hear We can Work Overtime and HR Fail.  In Agile consistent is not OT or weekends - Today's topics: (1) I did the base rate calculation when your boss asks for a few more hours to get a project down or when Project managers say we will do what we have to to get it done on time - both indications the project is miss managed and (...

#5amMesterScrum Show #582 Live - Knowing Best is Wrong! and Tasking Work for other is short term thinking and long term LOSS - Today's topics: (1) Know what is Best will not necessarily get the Best Creative Solution (Daughter spelling Dad in the picture, I would have never have thought that) and (2) Tech leaders, Product Owners or Scrum Masters tasking work out for the team is short term thinking...

#5amMesterScrum Show #581 Live - Story of Young Stone Mason and the Growth Mindset - Today's topics: (1) So the others day I was talking with a Young Stone Mason and he shared his work over and above his day job, an Entrepreneur.  He was of the Growth Mindset!.  It reminded me of two LinkedIn posts about overtime and corporate funded education and being of a fixed mindset. Please like and subscrib...

#5amMesterScrum Show #580 Live - Short-term Coaching Contract Impacts, observations for #HR people  - Today's topics: (1) Getting up early, Dog is tired from getting up and chasing squirrels, my kid earned $ for cutting my hair and all before 8am and (2) A consistent question I got from meeting with all the managers and scrum masters, How long are you going to be here?  I realized these short term...

#5amMesterScrum Show #579 Live - Definition of Done Journey Annotated Agenda and Fortune Cookie Friday - Today's topics: (1) Walking through my thoughts on how I might go through a Definition of Done DoD session with a new agile team and (2) Fortune Cookie Friday: Share your happiness with others today. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You are are...

#5amMesterScrum Show #578 Live - Micro vs. Macro Changes and setting yourself up for a bunch of excuses Why they Don't Improve - Today's topic: (1) Debating the pros and cons of having a central group investigate process improvement and the bad habit that creates for all your teams that you now have to deprogram later.  . Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your top...

#5amMesterScrum Show #577 Live - PM Myth Cost & Time Variable Just Annoys the Heck Out of Me - Today's topic: (1) I'm tired of Agile and Project Management people selling this stuff that Cost and Time (schedule) are variable in Project Management and Scope is fixed.  If you believe that two things will happen that is truth (unless the customer is desperate or you have a monopoly) (1) the Customer...

#5amMesterScrum Show #576 Live - DoR The Best Ice Breaker, Don't start with Team Norms - Today's topic: (1) Definition of Ready DoR is one of the Best Ice Breaker discussions for new scrum masters and agile coaches, because everyone can contribute and people love to tell what things slow them down. It is easier to unite on this as a team. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please...

#5amMesterScrum Show #575 Live - Secret Daily Scrum 5th Question That no one Tells You About- Today's topics: (1) So No one told you about the 4th and Secret 5th Questions for your Daily Scrum did they? Hint 4th question is Vacation related and the 5th is Systems Thinking or water cooler chat. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You are are doing Grea...

#5amMesterScrum Show #574 Live -  Sleeping in Sucks and so does Delaying Transformations - Today's topics: (1) I realized yesterday that sleeping in sucks.  If I get up early I get 3 hours of quite time vs. like on 1 or 2 hours maybe in the evening, plus people don't ask you to do stuff in the morning (it is all yours) and (2) Delaying Transformations also suck because delaying will never get you...

#5amMesterScrum Show #573 Live -  Racing Cars, Big Box Store Needs Agile and Fortune Cookie Friday - Today's topics: (1) My son said here Dad take these cars for your show.  So I did and the pitstop is like scrum, a team of people working on one goal at same time, (2) I was in a Big Box Store just thinking how they need agile training especially kanban.  They had unhappy customers and were losing...

#5amMesterScrum Show #572 Live - Definition of Ready Wireframe Agenda created Live - Today's topic: (1) I'm building an interactive self-organized set of meetings on Team Norms, Definition of Ready (DoR) and Definition of Done (DoD) and I wanted to sketch out the vision and agenda in a wireframe concept before I create the whiteboard space. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Plea...

#5amMesterScrum Show #571 Live - Happy St. Paddy's Day - Agile HR Annual Review - Today's topics: (1) Instead of managers and agile experts determining Agile Team or individual promotion or bonus measures, why not ask the team what they think they should be.  Now wouldn't that be interesting? Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You are are doing Great...

#5amMesterScrum Show #570 Live - Growing Mind lots of tools & PIP (PI Planning) Mistakes - Today's topics: (1) Reading a good book "Agile Coaching" by Rachel Davies and Liz Sedley as a part of my Growth Mindset and I highly recommend for new agile coaches and (2) PIP outcomes and mistakes: Dependencies and managers. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.  ...

#5amMesterScrum Show #569 Live - Smile and Letting Go - Today's topics: (1) I ask my daughter how her test went on Friday and her response "It was easy, it was fill in the oval!" In my mind I'm singing Let it Go! and (2) Just experiencing the journey with your team by letting them run the show. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You are are doing Gre...