5am Mester Scrum

#5amMesterScrum Show #468 Live - Transformation needs Oil, Agile Coaches have to let Team Self Organize and Fortune Cookie Sunday - Today's topics:  (1) In a Transformation engagement the teams and organization could use a little oil to break loose, (2) Agile coaches have to let go and not take the lime light from self organizing team and (3) Fortune Cookie Sunday with a double fortune: (a) You wi...

#5amMesterScrum Show #467 Live - PO is Servant Leader Too and So Needs to be Everyone Else in Scrum - Today's topics:  (1) Introduce how the Product Owner needs to be a Servant Leader and lead by asking for DoR and DoD and (2) In Scrum everyone needs to be a Servant Leader from time to time.   Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You are are doing Grea...

#5amMesterScrum Show #466 Live - Daily Scrum Music and Daily Scrum Prep Dashboard - Today's topics:  (1) Trying for some fun at Daily Scrum try offering 30 seconds for a favorite Teammate song (great energy builder) and (2) Quick and dirty Daily Scrum Dashboard to help you prepare for your daily scrums..   Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You are a...

#5amMesterScrum Show #465 Live - Consistent Improvement needs Consistent Team & Webinars or "Nars" Not a Fan need Alternative - Today's topics:  (1) Attended a webinar yesterday and they posed a question: Can we get continuous improvement if teams are not continuously funded?  And my take assembled and disassembled in a project based way and (2) Webinars - Not Liking Them, as I went to two yesterd...

#5amMesterScrum Show #464 Live - Value Into Customer Hands - Today's topics:  (1) If we waited for perfection then our customers would never have anything of value to use and we never know if they will like it or not.  I also shared a 113 year old post card mailed months ahead of time and compared it to today's communications.   Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me y...

#5amMesterScrum Show #463 Live - How does One Know We are Working on The Right Thing? - Today's topics:  (1) I was watching a Jem Jelly youtube clip and he was taking about interview questions he asks agile coaches: Is this team working on the work things? or something close to that and I changed it up a bit at least in the answer.   Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send...

#5amMesterScrum Show #462 Live - Movies Titles in Team Retrospectives and Fortune Cookie Friday - Today's topics:  (1) Saw a connection on LinkedIn do a James Bond 007 Retro and thought it would be great fun to create a movie title based Retro and (2) Fortune Cookie Friday: Failure is the Mother of Success.   Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You ar...

#5amMesterScrum Show #461 Live - One (1) Point Stories and Spending way too much time Assigning (claiming) stories - Today's topics:  (1) Proposal for transforming team that any One (1) Point Story should be doable by anyone on the team and (2) Some Team spend way too much time figuring out who is going to do which story during Sprint Planning and that is not really useful.  Use 1 point idea to mi...

#5amMesterScrum Show #460 Live - Counts, Points, Hours Battle (No Election talk) - Today's topics:  (1) Love it (sarcastic) when the "No Points" people ask the team to record Hours and (2) Why I like points at the team level and hate what agile accountants do with them at the organizational level.   Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You are are doin...

#5amMesterScrum Show #459 Live - Good Luck in Voting Today and MVP in Rockets - Today's topics:  (1) Wanted to wish everyone good luck in voting and please remember it is like a scrum team do what you can to minimize dependencies outside your control and make what is in front of you really the best you can and (2) Fun stuff looking at SpaceX MVP path with the goal of mass producing rockets.   Plea...

#5amMesterScrum Show #458 Live - Happy Halloween Velocity Pumpkin Teeth - Today's topics:  (1) Happy Halloween Drawing a Velocity History Chart that is scary and (2) Even Youtube Rolls code back, so you are not alone.   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 #scrumma...

#5amMesterScrum Show #457 Live -  Perfect Team Fun Friday and Visualize the Perfect Team environment and Fortune Cookie Friday - Today's topics:  (1) Trying to have some fun and visualize the perfect team with ideas Like Virtual Reality Thursdays (some things crazy) and superfast environments (something grounded) and (2) Fortune Cookie Friday: A friend who hasn't seen for a long time will help you...

#5amMesterScrum Show #456 Live -  No Points for New Teams - Don't ever Point Again for the 1st one or two Sprints Ever Again - Today's topics:  (1) People are always asking me how do I introduce pointing to a new team or team transitioning, so I came up with this after a coachee asked about no estimates.  For the first sprint don't point the stories in the backlog, just have them work the prioriti...

#5amMesterScrum Show #455 Live -  Rewarding Code Reviews - Today's topics:  (1) Yesterday I attended a really informative webinar with the Codurance Craft Events Barcelona meetup by By Trisha Gee- Java Advocacy Team Lead at JetBrains and she had a real nice idea to offer up reward for code reviews and a number of other points that I will share in share shows.   Please like and subscribe and share...

#5amMesterScrum Show #454 Live -  Bugs Sprint Bad (Not True) and Exposure is going to happen when you Transform to Agile - Today's topics:  (1) Lots more Bugs and the Agile Accountants come out in panic well it should happen and for good reasons and (2) Exposure will happen in a Transformation, like my refurnished floors showing every leaf and speck of dirt. Everything is exposed and I want to fix...

#5amMesterScrum Show #453 Live -  Perspectives in reference to Others and Time to Market take into account Customer Base - Today's topics:  (1) Perspectives: It is a cold rainy Monday here in Eastern US, but I sure bet people on West Coast would Love some rain and others would love to be working, plus fun, bugs, time and (2) Time to Market where I'm watching my France TV where they see a 100K per...

#5amMesterScrum Show #452 Live - Failure (International Failure Day, Oct. 13th) and Rate Per Hour Impact of Working 50 plus hours per week - Today's topics:  (1) Our TV broke and our new TV gave us a bunch of new channels and one was the Army of Fail and they were celebrating International Failure Day and (2) People ask about different in rate for contractor and Full Time and I say one thing you h...

#5amMesterScrum Show #451 Live - Reply All Does Not Mean you are Agile !, PM destruction of SAFe and Fortune Cookie Friday - Today's topics:  (1) My wife and I were talking about the use of "Reply All" on email and my point is Agile does not Require people to Reply ALL, just so we all understand that,(2) Project Management and Multiple Project work kills the original premise behind SAFe and Agile...

#5amMesterScrum Show #450 Live - NO Managers in Retrospective and The Ultimate Disruptor SpaceX  - Today's topics:  (1) So I'm facilitating a retro (actually a few recently) and I allow a manger to attend and what I hear is "from what I understand" from the manager when I ask the team a question.  They totally don't get self-organizing, and (2) Industry Disruptors! SpaceX I would say is a Classic...

#5amMesterScrum Show #449 Live - Made 10,000 and 10 Connections on LinkedIn and  What Goals Do if Done Well  - Today's topics:  (1) 10,010 connections and a BIG THANK YOU and I'm have so much fun, (2) Shared a video of Elon Musk at the Mars 2020 Conference and in there he talked about using a Goal to give direction to your design choices and it finally put Sprint Goals in perspective for me, and (...

#5amMesterScrum Show #448 Live - Say Hello to CoWorkers & IIBA Virtual Meeting 10/21 Can Agile Approach Be Successful Remotely - Today's topics:  (1) I was invited to speak at the Philadelphia IIBA Chapter on 10/21 about Remote Agile (I would love some pre questions) and (2) Pure Fun and No Work involved: Reach out and say hello via your work's messaging system to someone you have not talked to si...

#5amMesterScrum Show #447 Live - Empirical Process Control Theory is Missing A Key Element (Radical Improvement) and new word "UnLearn" and I Love It! - Today's topics:  (1) In Empirical Process Control Theory we look to the pass to help us plan the future but I feel we need to also add the challenge to move the needle and Improve Radically and (2) The term UnLearn is something I have been looking...

#5amMesterScrum Show #446 Live - Think Teams are Their Own Little Companies Anti-Normalization - Today's topics:  (1) Interesting that we are on this anti-Normalization trend read an article about 102 companies under one roof operating independent and it fit with our team discussion  and (2) Updates on Coke and Mentos experiments from yesterday, lots of lessons learned from doing and more updates...

#5amMesterScrum Show #445 Live - Normalization the Pursuit of Average y Tech Manager interaction with a Scrum Team - Today's topics:  (1) I here Normalization thrown around but is it to just make everyone average in the end, No more High Performing Teams? and (2) I was asked the other day about Tech managers and their roles with scrum teams and should they attend Scrum Events.  All but Retros and...

#5amMesterScrum Show #444 Live - Difficult People requires Respect, Willingness to Listen y Fortune Cookie Friday - Today's topics:  (1) Watching Mr. Davis interview he shared lots of great points and one was when dealing with anyone show Respect and a Willingness to Listen and (2) Fortune Cookie Friday: Frequent conversations will fill your heart with joy. This is so true !   Please like and subs...