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#5amMesterScrum Show #543 Live - Off Boarding y Ask the Team - Today's topics: (1) Off Boarding from an Old Job Lesson Learned: Save the Receipt for shipping your computer back, and (2) Ask the Team to confirm your observation by ask them what they are seeing and them work with them to come up with solutions, resist providing your own. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please se...

#5amMesterScrum Show #542 Live - PM, SM or Agile Coach, What Are you? - Today's topic: (1) I had an interesting question about my PM, SM and Agile Coach identification and the discussion was a great series of questions.  So in this show I try and explain my take. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. 5am M...

#5amMesterScrum Show #541 Live - Cross Capable Person vs. Capable Team - Today's topic: (1) In the SAFe world they are ok with cross capable teams as an early alternate for cross capable people.  So we go though some advantages and disadvantages of the two approaches. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing....

#5amMesterScrum Show #539 Live - Certifications and a Different Why of Looking at Them - Today's topic: (1) Shared my Great Grandmother's 124 year old High School Diploma on Valentine's Day and my question is a certification of knowledge or a willingness to learn?  I also share an interview question someone like myself might ask. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me...

#5amMesterScrum Show #539 Live -  Manifesto 20 years ago and How it Help Us Find the  Appropriate Work, plus Fortune Cookie Friday - Today's topics: (1) Taking a look at how the Manifesto acts as a guide to finding appropriate work, (2) Agile is not about working inappropriate work faster and (3) Fortune Cookie Friday: Success lies in the hands of those who want it. Please like and subscribe and s...

#5amMesterScrum Show #538 Live -  Estimating Snow and Scaling Two Frameworks: Discussions for a new Job - Today's topics: (1) We still can't Estimate snow fall with all the fancy computers, so why do we think we can in work? and (2) During a discussion with a recruiter they said the customer wanted to transform with LeSS and then a year later transform again to SAFe, yeap that is what I heard. Ple...

#5amMesterScrum Show #537 Live -  Is Scrum Right for the Job? - Today's topic: (1) I was having a conversation with another scrum master about a scrum master that was in a customer service team and they hated their job. The became a discussion of complex problems and why didn't the scrum master recognize that it might be a framework issue or something else related to the work. Please like and subs...

#5amMesterScrum Show #536 Live - Agile HR Fail and Agile or Scrum Mastery - Today's topics: (1) Agile HR Fail: Manager "the Dev team is in India" and Me: You know India is a big Country? What city? What Building? What Floor? and (2) Scrum Mastery what does that mean?  Mechanics? Is there an interest in really mastering Scrum? Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your...

#5amMesterScrum Show #535 Live - Blame SuperGame Refs for Team Issues and Too Much Talk vs. Being In the Game - Today's topics: (1) Blaming Refs for Team Issues, we hear that constantly in the Agile world but are we doing enough to minimize the impacts of Refs? Do I blame Jerry for eating the football? and (2) Too Much talk about delivering perfect content vs. getting content out therein the Game....

#5amMesterScrum Show #534 Live -  Splitting Long Sprints and SuperGame fun comparing Sports to Agile frameworks - Today's topics: (1) Team Sprint 6, 4 or even 2 weeks long, how might we introduce shorter timebox? and (2) SuperGame weekend so let's have fun and compare Sports (American Footbal, Rugby, Futbol (soccer)) to Agile Frameworks (Scrum, Kanban, XP). Please like and subscribe and share 5amM...

#5amMesterScrum Show #533 Live -  Reusability Like SpaceX and Testing with Stakeholders - Today's topics: (1) Reusability allows you to progress much like SpaceX Falcon 9, no one else has the capability and they are crushing it and (2) Testing please let others play with your software before releasing. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You are are d...

#5amMesterScrum Show #532 Live -  Product Owner (PO) and Scrum Master (SM) should become Pals and Fortune Cookie Friday - Today's topics: (1) Product Owner and Scrum Master should be pals (good working relationship) and PO's should take advantage of the SM facilitating skills and (2) Fortune Cookie Friday: Be down-to-earth, good performance will be followed by promotion. Please like and subscribe...

#5amMesterScrum Show #531 Live -  Demo vs. Review and UX wasting time on Design and Not enough on Research - Today's topics: (1) People react to the "Demo" but I would challenge those and ask is your PO or stakeholder operating the product?  If not then it is a Demo and (2) Listening to a week broadcast of Jared Pool UX and Agile, he says US is spending too much time on Design vs. Building the rig...

#5amMesterScrum Show #530 Live -  Self Appointment and Myth "Agile was created to improve estimates" - Today's topics: (1) Watching a leadership video and they recommended making an appointment with oneself and I say make two 15min before Daily Scrum and 30min once a week on goals and (2) I heard a very influential person say that "Agile was created to make better estimates"  and I almost fell out...

#5amMesterScrum Show #529 Live -   Scrum Interview say what you did to contribute - Today's topic: (1) Telling the story of how you helped a team do better, whether it was a Daily Scrum or Refinement session, please share what you personally contributed and tell a story. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharin...

#5amMesterScrum Show #528 Live -  Sprint Review, Automation Tools and Retro on last night attempt to read 64,027 issue titles in Jira - Today's topics: (1) Does your Sprint Review represent Agile Manifesto Value 2 of Working SW over Documentation, (2) Automation Tools and talking about my little TikTok on the snow tools and (3) Retrospective on my experimental attempt at reading 64,027 issues in a...

5amMesterScrum Show #527 Live -  No Sports today so we are Going to experiment - Today's topics: 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 #coaching #philadelphia #philly #experiment #ideas #learning   5am Mester Scrum Show #527...

5amMesterScrum Show #526 Live - Turning Idea Parking Lot into Idea Playgrounds and Meeting Fatigue addressing it in your Facilitation - Today's topics: (1) Creating locations for teams to play with ideas and concepts and (2) Meeting Fatigue is something new to the smaller meeting format because of the virtual world.   Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics....

#5amMesterScrum Show #525 Live - Alignment is not just Cadence and Fortune Cookie Friday - Today's topics: (1) So many people think Alignment happens when all the Sprints line, but is just a small part and (2) Fortune Cookie Friday: Treasure What you Have.   Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. 5am Mester...

#5amMesterScrum Show #524 Live - Personal Health Debt and Technical Debt and their Long Term Impacts - Today's topics: (1) A few people including myself have mentioned health issue and some have said they work longer hours now, this is all creating Health form of Tech Debt and (2) Technical Debt will impact the financial health of a company and product, not to mention the Philadelphia public stree...

#5amMesterScrum Show #523 Live - Pitiful Work Flow and Timesheets in SAFe Mastery - Today's topics: (1) Amateur or Lazy using the same Work Flows for Stories and Tasks in Jira, Azure, Rally, etc.. and (2) From my SPC class to achieve Mastery in Agile and SAFe they say get rid of timesheets, so why the heck do "trained" SAFe people ask for time on Tasks?   Please like and subscribe and share 5amMes...

#5amMesterScrum Show #522 Live - No LinkedIn Profile and No Certs - Today's topics: (1) In preparing for interviews I noticed lots of managers have practically no LinkedIn Profile and (2) Having no certification is not being prepared and counter to the idea of improving ones' self.   Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You are are doing Great Please K...

#5amMesterScrum Show #521 Live - Job Interview, Shirt and Tie? in the virtual world and Community of Practice CoP is yours a Professional meeting? - Today's topics: (1) Dressing for the Virtual Job Interview, why not dress as if you were going to the job location for the interview and why dress up?  It is like a date or future long term relationship, would you dress in a sweat shirt?  Some might....

#5amMesterScrum Show #520 Live - Business Not At PI Planning, Let's do the Investment Math - Today's topic: (1) Just finished my SPC class this week, and it always puzzles me as to why Business Leaders or Managers might partially attend a PI Planning Session.  So I wanted to go through the expense of a single ART of 4 Teams, 10 people per team over a PI of 5 two week Sprints.  By the way the same...

#5amMesterScrum Show #519 Live - Not Applicable Yet (NAY) and the story of Definition of Done (DoD) - Today's topic: (1) The story of a team's Definition of Done changes over time and therefore many items in a DoD are a NAY (Not Applicable Yet) as some day they should become a part of the DoD.   Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You are are doing Gr...