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#5amMesterScrum Show #518 Live - Buffer is Not Muda and Fortune Cookie Friday  - Today's topics: (1) Buffer can be a good thing that prevent Muri, Mura and Muda (if you worry about buffer there is a trust issue by the way),  and (2) Fortune Cookie Friday: Although you are lucky in money, be careful in investment decision.   Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your t...

#5amMesterScrum Show #517 Live - Tech Session Drudgery and Spying on PI Planning Events - Today's topics: (1) Is your team complaining about all the meeting? Well is the joint tech session for 7 different people but all held captive and (2) PI Planning Spies and how I would spy on PI Planning sessions for my organization and others.  Walk around and watch Managers and Business Leaders.   Please li...

#5amMesterScrum Show #516 Live -  Resting on a Good Thing - Congrats to New Zealand on a Rocket Launch today and Space X is later today. Today's topic (1) Resting on a Good Things is that the Agile Mindset?  I think Not the Agile Mindset is getting ready to deploy the next radical shift in the Marketplace..   Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You ar...

#5amMesterScrum Show #515 Live - Team Builds the Retro and Job Speak We vs. I  - Today's topics:  (1) Last week I attended the Lean-Agile Manchester Meetup with Chris Stone presenting designing retros for team self creation and (2) Job Interview responses of too much "We" or the "Team did this" and not enough I contributed this to the team.  People are interviewing you and not the company you work...

#5amMesterScrum Show #514 Live - Looking Outside as an Excuse to not looking Inside, and Partnership the art of picking up the slack of the other - Today's topics:  (1) So many teams blame outside people for issue when there is so much that can be done inside and (2) Partnership the art of picking up the slack in communications with your partners,   Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScr...

#5amMesterScrum Show #513 Live - Hyperconnected Watch Out and Take Breaks - Today's topics:  (1) I notice many scrum team or "agile" teams are so driven, but that not is why Scrum was created.  Watch out for the hyperconnected atmosphere of this virtual work environment.   Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You are are doing Great Please Keep on Shar...

#5amMesterScrum Show #512 Live - Why do we ask "When is the Next Meeting? and Estimation - Why vs. how - Today's topics:  (1) Why do teams ask when the next meeting is?  In scrum we have a cadence so that question is not needed.  My question is are you getting your stuff done? and  (2) Estimation is not a question of how, but of WHY!.   Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please s...

#5amMesterScrum Show #511 Live - Engagement is a 2 way Street, Buffers for meetings (a must) and Fortune Cookie Friday  - Today's topics:  (1) Do you think just because you set up a meeting everyone should be engaged?  Well did you create an engaging atmosphere?, (2) Buffers for your meeting just because the calendar meeting says start at 830am should you really start?  What is more valuable the t...

#5amMesterScrum Show #510 Live - Proto Scrum Teams need to Run Security Testing to Become Mature Scrum and preserve Business Continuity - Today's topic:  (1) Borrowing from Kanban and created the term proto Scrum Teams (lots of undone work) and their relation to security Testing.  Security experts' jobs are not to run tests but to (a) seek out and block new threats and (b) pass the automated secur...

#5amMesterScrum Show #509 Live - Zoom Lunch with Business Executive and they ask Agile is What? or What are you Working on? - Today's topic:  (1) Relooking at the elevator speech.  Updated including ideas from the Elon Musk post plus my own thoughts on partnerships, priorities and saving time, which executives love.   Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics....

#5amMesterScrum Show #508 Live - Business Continuity, Infrastructure Forgotten because they went to the Cloud and Terms of Agreement - Today's topics:  (1) Learning more about people using the Cloud as an excuse not to hire infrastructure people or let them go (bad move for business continuity and not Agile) and (2) Terms of agreement also puts business continuity at risk if you don't follow your...

#5amMesterScrum Show #507 Live - Kanban, Scrum, PMP the Right way and Business Continuity - Today's topics:  (1) Lots of PMP's and Scrum Masters out there not following or using the tools the right way, lots of people doing proto-kanban and (2) Business Continuity and life changing starting this week as I bet you CEO's and CIO's around the country are going to ask today where is my data?  It is al...

#5amMesterScrum Show #506 Live - Everything on the Board (Scrum or Kanban) - Today's topic:  (1) It is a common question I get and discovery I make with new teams, do we put everything on the scrum board or they say I didn't think we were supposed to put everything on the boar?   Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You are are doing Great Please Keep...

#5amMesterScrum Show #505 Live - Customer Feedback the real DevOps and new Good Morning quick clips  - Today's topics:  (1) Product releases that don't work and the lack of customer feedback options is not Agile nor Good DevOps and (2) a new series I'm starting of morning 15 sec clips from various locations around Philadelphia, just saying Good Morning.   Please like and subscribe and share 5amMes...

#5amMesterScrum Show #504 Live - Break The Funk, Friday Cleanups and Fortune Cookie Friday  - Today's topics:  (1) Transformations are tough and it can drag one down into a Funk, so join a meet up and hang out with agile people and get fresh ideas, (2) Make Fridays a Cleanup Day and work with your Product Owners and sharpen up the backlog and Fortune Cookie Friday: Set up your plan at the beginnin...

#5amMesterScrum Show #503 Live - Value and Old Stories  - Today's topics:  (1) Adding Value to some that does not take much like a cookie recipe on a Holiday card and (2) Old Stories have No Value because they never made it to the Customer.  Value is not the time invested in something and maybe you should look at your process if you invest that much time into something that is never produced?   Pl...

#5amMesterScrum Show #502 Live - Burning Motivation to Achieve your Goals and Visualize the End State and the Path to Get There - Today's topics:  (1) Watching Valuentainment and this Father's (Mr. Milton @fatherofballers) tweet about watching out for the kid on the other team staring at the other team celebrating a win, generating that fire to be there next year and the ones who have generated th...

#5amMesterScrum Show #501 Live from the Delaware River - Cleaning up Trash and Backlog for fresh start in New Year - Today's topics:  (1) Since in transition I wanted to do some clean up work at the local Delaware River Park and reflect on Cleaning up Backlog from trash just floating around.  Now is a Good Time to clean up trash in your backlog before the year gets moving.   Please like and subscr...

#5amMesterScrum Show #500 Live - Ed the Scrum Master and taking Kanban and SPC Classes this month - Today's topics:  (1) Guest Scrum Master Edward starting us off with 3 questions and (2) Taking the plunge into SAFe with an SPC course and Kanban today.   Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. 5am Mester Scr...

#5amMesterScrum Show #499 Live - Keeping Agile SW Simple and Small Steps verse Doing Everything at Once - Today's topics:  (1) Too many organizations and people try to make agile Software collect all kinds of data, while the basics will get any team 90% of what they need and (2) Taking small steps in life and in work, sharing how we are taking short drives with the adopted dogs so they feel safe a...

#5amMesterScrum Show #498 Live - Scrum is the Finite Element to Scaling and PI Feature Sizing Pitfall  - Today's topics:  (1) Lots of talk about SAFe lately and I just wanted to share how Scrum is an essential elements to any Scaled Operation whether is be SAFe, S@S, Nextus, LeSS, ect.. and (2) PI Planning Feature Size UNder estimating to "Do More" for the customer is going to kill your budget and...

#5amMesterScrum Show #497 Live - New Years Day 2021 and Making New Plans - Today's topic:  (1) Wishing Everyone a Happy and Healthy 2021 New Year.  As a agile thinker I know things change and we have to be flexible.  Not planning too far ahead and always growing and learning.  New virtual class re-certifications and new certifications for myself.  Also that we are not alone in 2021, please feel to...

#5amMesterScrum Show #496 Live - Contractor's Life on New Years Eve (1 Day Notice - Funding Cut) and on Reflecting on Past Year & Owning It - Today's topics:  (1) Reflecting on the past year on New Years Eve do you blame others or a virus or it is most yourself not taking control (this is me), Positive is stuff did get Done (Win), Can't Blame others! and (2) Life as a Contractor and 1 Day Notice a...

#5amMesterScrum Show #495 Live - Virtual Restaurant Concept Mr. BeastBurger and Diversity for your team and trying people of all makes and sizes - Today's topics:  (1) Kids are Big Fans of MrBeast and he started a virtual restaurant, which is so Agile that I wanted to share.  Who says you can't do an entire Business Model Agile? and (2) Team Diversity introducing Betty and Jerry our new team membe...

#5amMesterScrum Show #494 Live - To Study or To Do is the Question, Agile lean more towards DO - Today's topic:  (1) Talking about going out and doing things or exploring verse studying every function before using it, Risk adverse and (2) Podcasts are out.   Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing.  #5amMeste...