5am Mester Scrum

#5amMesterScrum Show #493 Live - Complex Lego Car and Doing the Work for New People - Today's topic:  (1) My son got a complex lego car for Christmas and was having issues putting it together, so my daughter helped him by putting it together for him.  Sound familiar like senior people giving instructions on how to do everything, and creating a world of dependency and thereby taking time away from...

#5amMesterScrum Show #492 Live - Rocket Car and Making Choices for the Customer and Fortune Cookie Saturday - Today's topics:  (1) So I got the kids a rocket car for Christmas and it was not on their list.  Be careful about making decision on stuff you think the customer wants without checking with the customer and challenge the PO and Tech mangers on how a story meets a customer need, and (2) For...

#5amMesterScrum Show #491 Live - New Tech and getting over it and Christmas Sprint review or Demo - Today's topics:  (1) The family got me a new tech (change) for tracking my exercise, but the little agile accountant also wants to track my progress and (2) Christmas Day the ultimate Sprint Review and now who should operate the items from the backlog, you or the Product Owner / stakeholder / custom...

#5amMesterScrum Show #490 Live - Twas Night before Christmas Release (a Happy Story) - Today's topics:   - Twas the Night Before Christmas Release - The Ci/CD process found all the integration issues as they built their product and not at the last minute like other companies. - The PO checking her Product Backlog not once but Twice before resting with good warm drink. - Not a creature was stirring...

#5amMesterScrum Show #489 Live - Project Management Triangle Wrong and False plus Estimates are Wrong Also - Today's topics:  (1) I saw an ad where a company wants to help my team make better estimates, but on the 1st day of CSM we all say estimates are always wrong, we fixed it by not spending a lot of time estimating, and (2) The PM Triangle everyone talks of constraint is a falsehood. Scope has...

#5amMesterScrum Show #488 Live - Paint, Taping or create Technical Debt and Going Agile with No Framework, is it Practical? - Today's topics:  (1) While painting the house I noticed a few cracks around the old plaster tape.  I could just paint over and create tech debt or retape it and get 10 to 15 years, and (2) I read an article about going Agile without a framework and I ask why?  And is it pra...

#5amMesterScrum Show #487 Live - Scrum is like making Tortillas, Short Holiday Work Weeks Layout idea and 5 Free Philadelphia Opening for Coaching sessions in Agile - Today's topics:  (1) Watching Rick Bayless making tortillas saying when you don't practice it you are going to fail a few times and that is why Scrum works - We practice all the time, (2) Short Holiday Weeks and breaking it down into...

#5amMesterScrum Show #486 Live - Holiday Sprint Planning in your Calendar, Using Commitment Poker to adjust for vacations and Fortune Cookie Friday - Today's topics:  (1) Getting your team to interact with calendar invites for vacation and holidays (important for remote work) , (2) Using Planning Poker to make capacity and velocity adjustments in less than a minute and no more agile accountant spr...

#5amMesterScrum Show #485 Live - Plans Oh My (Breaking Agile Myth) and Trading Complex Stories for Less during Sprint with Holidays and potential snow days - Today's topics:  (1) Planning is everywhere in Agile Daily, Sprint and even quarterly (SAFe) and they help you understand risk and adjust for change easier and (2) Snowday and Holiday Sprint Planning by trading a normal activity of working co...

#5amMesterScrum Show #484 Live - Writing and Thinking, then Wasting Time in Planning and Refinement - Today's topics:  (1) Heard a great quote "Writing requires Thinking and Talking Does Not" which lead into Asynchronous communications which we can use to save time and  (2) Quick Time Waste calculation using past commitments and Done (velocity) work to realize how much time your team (especially t...

#5amMesterScrum Show #483 Live - Not Everyone Knows Agile and New Teammates - Today's topics:  (1) Agile Ambassadors Don't assume everyone understands Agile or Scrum, watching SkyNews Australia calling SpaceX a "Spectacular" Setback clearly show the public does not understand failure and  (2) Having New Team Member join and creating space to be a part of the team. Welcome Betty to Team 5amMesterSc...

#5amMesterScrum Show #482 Live - SAFe PI Timebox is Not a Critical Milestone & PBI or Documentation Secret Sauce for Scrum Masters and Fortune Cookie Friday - Today's topics:  (1) SAFe Product Increment (PI) timebox and its end date is not something to get worked up about, (2) The Secret of Getting teams to complete work PBI (Product Backlog items) in a Sprint (Stories, Tasks, Hours) no matter wha...

#5amMesterScrum Show #481 Live - SpaceX Great Demo and Great Fail was of the Best Reviews Ever - Today's topics:  (1) SpaceX did it and flew their SpaceShip with over 500,000 stakeholders watching validating all kinds of capability and (2) Then Ultimate destruction on the landing but they learned more by failure then I believe they would have learned by success.  Like I say you learn more by givin...

#5amMesterScrum Show #480 Live -  Big Rollback at the Last Second for SpaceX Starship and CD Business Rules (Go or No Go) - Today's topics:  (1) SpaceX did a Big Roll Back yesterday with a mere seconds to Go with Launch, but that is OK because they have the culture to allow that to happen in a Good Way (as a PO could you make that call?) and (2) Continuous Delivery or Deployment Business Rules a c...

#5amMesterScrum Show #479 Live -  Honoring Chuck Yeager by Knowing Your System and Real Value vs. what agile accountants think is value (2 stories from his biography) - Today's topics:  (1) Chuck Yeager knew everything about the aircraft system he flew and worked with the really smart people in the room as any scrum master should do and (2) During Vietnam the agile accountants were all over him an...

#5amMesterScrum Show #478 Live -  Mountain Blockers and Cut Time In Half like digging a train tunnel from two sides - Today's topic:  (1) Using a combination of improvement both from the organization or enterprise side and the team side at the same time.  This cuts the time to implement in half.  Just like digging a train tunnel with both sides starting at the same time and meeting in the middle....

#5amMesterScrum Show #477 Live -  Healthy Scrum Experiment and Fortune Cookie Friday - Today's topics:  (1) My 9 year old asks Dad why don't you like going to the Gym?  In my mind it turned into what Blocks you from going to the gym and let's face it I need to go to get healthy.  So I'm going to experiment with scrum and getting in shape and I have 3 new questions to ask, and (2) Fortune Cookie Fr...

#5amMesterScrum Show #476 Live -  Daily Scrum Don't Waste Time - Today's topics:  (1) Daily Scrum Team Agreement, Start, Order and Agenda use so you don't waste time, and (2) Daily Scrum value to the team with exchanges between people and offer to help with stuff before starting new work.   Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You are are doing Great P...

#5amMesterScrum Show #475 Live -  Agile Accountants vs. Pirate Time Investment that Do Not Return - Today's topics:  (1) Spend Time and Money on things that don't impact getting product to customer, and (2) Why did pirates like to stay at sea, it was to keep away from the agile accountants and daily task tracking.   Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.  ...

#5amMesterScrum Show #474 Live -  Scrum Master Mother Hen Syndrome & SAFe ARTs are built for  Speed - Today's topics:  (1) Be careful that as Scrum Masters we Do NOT  become Mother Hens to our team and protect them from all failure, and (2) SAFe Agile Release Trains (ART) are built for speed and to bring products to market in 3 month verse a year.  Is you SAFe ART doing that and I mean real new pr...

#5amMesterScrum Show #473 Live - Happy Thanksgiving and OBS Video feed fun fun- Today's topics:  (1) I'm having technical difficulties with my OBS software and YouTube, as my YouTube can't live without it, But I wanted to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving.  I'm truly Thankful for being able to share grow with everyone   Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topi...

#5amMesterScrum Show #472 Live - 2020 Scrum Let's Talk Definition, Events (Watch out! New Trick Test Question),  & Fortune Cookie Fridays- Today's topics:  (1) Scrum Definition Not liking Product Owner line, missing what I think Scrum is about and I like Provoking Change, (2) Now there are Five (5) Events with four (4) Formal Events (warning trick question), and (3) Fortune Cookie Friday: Confiden...

#5amMesterScrum Show #471 Live - New Scrum Guide 2020 Rolled out Yesterday Quick Look Into Three (3) Things I Liked - Today's topics:  (1) No More Three Defined Questions - Yeah now it is open to flexibility, (2) No more "Development Team" it is now "Developers" and (3) Sprint Planning: the What and How and now the emphasis on "Why" which I like.   Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScru...

#5amMesterScrum Show #470 Live - Big Backlogs Stopped or Ready Talk Giant Train Yards - Today's topics:  (1) Is your giant backlog look ready to go or is it a giant mess.  Working with you PO to clean it up weekly.   Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing.  #5amMesterScrum #scrum #agile #business #scrummaste...

#5amMesterScrum Show #469 Live - Staying Out of The Way as an Agile Coach and Personal experience of over doing it? - Today's topics:  (1) Sometimes it is the Agile Coaches job to stay out of the way after getting conflicting parties together to talk and we just provide a safety valve and (2) Personal story as an Agile Coach helping with retrospectives where all my teams found 8 to 12 issues to im...