5am Mester Scrum

#5amMesterScrum Show #568 Live - Coaching Conversation Uncomfortable y Start Small with Corporate Transformations - Today's topics: (1) Co-Hosting my ICAgile class conducting coaching conversation drills and how it is uncomfortable sometimes going straight into it and (2) Starting small with transformations verse overwhelming people  with change. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum....

#5amMesterScrum Show #567 Live - Doing Agile, Corp Style - Today's topic: (1) Reading an article by Stacey Ackerman - Is you company culturally ready to transform?  I would ask is your transformation corporate style where you buy a bunch of tools recommended by consultants but have no idea why you need them or what is agile mindset vs. agile framework which is two different things. Please like and...

#5amMesterScrum Show #566 Live - CEO Agile Mindset and Fortune Cookie Friday - Today's topics: (1) An Agile Mindset CEO making decisions to build trust and lead, but they need an agile company to do that and (2) Fortune Cookie Friday: Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.  ...

#5amMesterScrum Show #565 Live - Kids, Cereal and Learning Themselves and Using Baseball to explain how to manage Priorities  - Today's topics: (1) The classic telling people what to do an why, but they still need to fail and learn and (2) Using Baseball to help organizations to manage priorities and work and to keep  the focus on what is at hand. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum...

#5amMesterScrum Show #564 Live - Big Vision to make small things smaller and Agile Coach Metrics - Today's topics: (1) Big Vision and the desire to go to the Moon vs. yell at the guy on the Roof for waking you up and (2) Agile Coaching metrics, just some ideas that could be shared with your client or managers. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You a...

#5amMesterScrum Show #563 Live - Why Bother Asking? and Done v. Hrs. a different way to hire contractors - Today's topics: (1) Why Bother Asking? A question I encounter all the time.  For me it was why bother signing up for a shot?  They will never pick me. Then looking at the original train why bother pushing past a stage coach? and (2) Hire consultant companies and pay by the hour vs. by work do...

#5amMesterScrum Show #562 Live - Mindset, Safety and Mistakes  - Today's topics: (1) An agile mindset is not the guy about to come down on a few roofers because they started work at 7:30am and they woke you up.  So now you want them fired.  How does a Agile Leader think? and (2) Building that Safety Mindset as a Leader so people bring issues, concerns and ideas to Leadership without fear of creati...

#5amMesterScrum Show #561 Live - Agile Perfection or No Go - Today's topics: (1) Deep conversation today after watching video on Visualizing Success and the speakers mention of the Wright Brothers on their 1st flight for 12 seconds.  Was it perfect? No! But it was a start to something amazing. Heck Yes!  First Flight F/A-18E/F in 1995.  Same goes with Agile Transformation, Big Corp Consultants wan...

#5amMesterScrum Show #560 Live - I Can't Get People To Do What I Say? Kind of like Cats?  Plus 5 more openings in coaching - Today's topics: (1) I hear all the time I'm going to tell management what I'm going to suggest to the team the solution.  By the wat that is not self organizing nor is it Scrum, and (2) Opening up 5 spots for coaching. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Ple...

#5amMesterScrum Show #559 Live - Cameras On? , Multi-tasking During Meetings and Fortune Cookie Friday - Today's topics: (1) I caught myself multi-tasking during meetings yesterday, so my questions What is wrong with the meeting design or Is there something else I really should be doing? It is not right not to give attention, and (2) Cameras on - As the agile coach I noticed I was the only one wit...

#5amMesterScrum Show #558 Live - Check-in/out for you meetings and Team Norms Assembly or Document which is more Important? - Today's topics: (1) Check-in and Check-out are great facilitation tools to help your meeting participants focus and (2) Team Norms and the different times when the assembly is more important when the artifact is. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please s...

#5amMesterScrum Show #557 Live - Happy News You Got A New Job, Now what do you Ask? - Today's topic: (1) It has been about two weeks since I started my new consulting position and I wanted to share some real basic communication things that I relearned.  I hope they help and please feel free to comment or message me on new job questions. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please s...

#5amMesterScrum Show #556 Live - Agility Mindset Makes OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) Easy - Today's topic: (1) Having an Agile Mindset makes creating OKRs easy, as everything screams Business Agility.  No wonder why a waterfall organization has so much trouble writing OKRs, as it is against their mindset. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You ar...

#5amMesterScrum Show #555 Live - Scrum Product Owner (PO) Common Practice what is could be and what it is Not - Today's topic: (1) Continuing the topics of Common Practice, I wanted to talk about Product Owner Common practice. What it is and what it is not, so Product Owners spend time on Value Add work. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You are are...

#5amMesterScrum Show #554 Live - Common vs. Best Practice and building them in an Agile vs. Waterfall way - Today's topic: (1) We talked about the evil common practice in show 553.  Not I wanted to address Common vs. Best Practice.  Common practices should take on a wiki feel to them and be created by all and evolve vs. in a waterfall way and take forever to generate. By the way we were added to W...

#5amMesterScrum Show #553 Live - Evil Common Practice is a Secret Way to Make People do Context Switching, which Defeats Productivity  - Today's topics: Watchin TED talk by Manoush Zomorodi (1) Daily Control on Priorities: son with Homework and me Meeting Invites and (2) Common Practice use as excuse to move business owners from one Business Line to another, when in reality common practice only he...

#5amMesterScrum Show #552 Live - Gain Job Experience by Joining a Hacker Group and Fortune  Cookie Friday  - Today's topics: (1) People always ask me how do I gain Scrum Master or Product Owner Experience without a job, so an option is to offer your skills to a code group and (2) Fortune Cookie Friday: Only when free from projections, we can be aware of reality. Please like and subscribe and share...

#5amMesterScrum Show #551 Live - Process or Artifact which is More Important and, Timebox How Much Time - Today's topics: (1) Let's look at the Team Working Agreement or Norm is it more important that they build it or that they have one? and (2) A 30 minute Problem Solving meeting and my 6x5min time boxes for divergent and convergent thinking agenda. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterSc...

#5amMesterScrum Show #550 Live - Rushing to "Complete" Sprints for Wrong Reasons - Today's topic: (1) I was watching my son get upset for not getting his homework done (besides working non-value add like video games/youtube).  It quickly reminded me of so many scrum teams going crazy to "Complete" a sprint: rushing testing, asking for part credit on points or splitting stories.  But why the rush a...

#5amMesterScrum Show #549 Live - Scrum Team of 1, Overkill and Direct Message is Ok probably better - Today's topics: (1) Thanking Duncan Maddox for the topic idea of a Scrum team of One, let's talk overkill and (2) Direct Messaging is OK, but so many avoid it causing time waste or lost key points, but I'm not saying be a jerk.  That would be over the top bad. Please like and subscribe and share 5...

#5amMesterScrum Show #548 Live - Daily Scrum +15 or 30 and Why it's Wrong? - Today's topic: (1) Twenty years ago the +15 or +30 minute time after Daily Scrum might have been useful.  But now a days most organizations have all kinds of mechanisms for teams to connect on their own.  If not then Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches need to challenge it.  Maybe the team needs to ID an overlap window for mu...

#5amMesterScrum Show #547 Live - Daily Scrum Should be about You and the Team - Today's topics: (1) Changing the questions to orient more to how one person is interacting with others by actually calling out names not for bad but for who is taking on the next step in the flow. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You are are doing Great Please Keep on S...

#5amMesterScrum Show #546 Live - SAFe SPC Test Sabotage and Preparation on Kanban for the Exam - Today's topics: (1) Sharing my experience during the actual test when my kids and cats wanted to sabotage my exam experience and (2) I share my preparation for the SAFe SPC exam with my 1 week sprints and Kanban chart with stories. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me you...

#5amMesterScrum Show #545 Live - Platinum vs. Golden Rule in Diversity and Expectations and  Cookie - Today's topics: (1) Watching a LinkedIn Diversity Learning session by Verna Myers and it was really good learned the Platinum Rule and Golden Rule difference and how to treat people.  It does not only apply to Diversity, but expectation for people in the work place.  It is VERY Agile. and (2) Fort...

#5amMesterScrum Show #544 Live - Mars Agile or Waterfall or Bust - Today's topics: (1) Today NASA is planning to land on Mars in a very deadline dominant fashion.  They want to be there at a specific time and a specific place, so the signals at landing reach Earth. So should it be a waterfall or Agile Project?  I would argue "Agile" to reduce risk and get as much test data and working software all...