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#5amMesterScrum Show #443 Live - Interview Prep and Dress Like you are Going Into Office and The word Everything is said Watchout - Today's topics:  (1) With COVID most job Interviews are virtual but dress and prep like you are going into the office and (2) Pause when people say words like Everything, Assume, All Teams, Everyone Should and a personal favorite Normalize..   Please like and subscrib...

#5amMesterScrum Show #442 Live - Virtual Interview Questions for You to Ask and Agile vs. Waterfall - Today's topics:  (1) Continued from yesterday's but this time questions anyone can ask to a company during an interview and (2) Agile vs. Waterfall never shall they mix or why not.  It is up to the team and our job to help where we can.   Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please...

#5amMesterScrum Show #441 Live - BA Job Interview ?'s and Monday Status Meetings Oh My! - Today's topics:  (1) Talking the other day to a Business Analyst (BA) friend of mine about a job Interview and he/she went right into the answer verse asking questions ? and (2) Status Meetings on Mondays! One reason why I love Scrum so much.  How much can really get done in a day? All we, as a team, want to...

#5amMesterScrum Show #440 Live - My Daily Scrum Sample for Today & Scrum Karens that just come in and mess up your Scrum - Today's topics:  (1) Just gave an example of my personal Daily Scrum plus a goofy if I was a duck in the rain since it is Monday and (2) How to Deal with those people that come in and mess up your scrum aka Karen (man or women).  The key is that you can't avoid and should enga...

#5amMesterScrum Show #439 Live - Help Make Team Successful as a Product Owner and Taking advantage of the full 4 hours of Sprint Planning as a Team  - Today's topics:  (1) I was watching a short clip about being a Business Analyst at Google and one person said the Goal to help make the Developers Successful - I like that, and (2) I see so many teams not take advantage of Sprint Planning 4 hour tim...

#5amMesterScrum Show #438 Live - Scrum Master's Job Escalation Only? and the Work Triangle Dangers  - Today's topics:  (1) Talking with a Scrum Master is their job just to escalate problems?  Why can't they help facilitate solutions outside their team? and (2) Work Triangle a term I came up with when Agile Accountants / Auditors / Managers want to look deep into teams causing 100x to 600x in admin...

#5amMesterScrum Show #437 Live - Team Work Better Than Individual and Fortune Cookie 2X - Today's topics:  (1) Watching the Team Sand our Wood floor Done in 4 hours vs. Days for a single person and (2) Fortune Cookie Friday 2x: (a) if you live out of your imagination, you live out of your potential and  (b) In the new year, a little gambling doesn't hurt.   Please like and subscribe and share 5amM...

#5amMesterScrum Show #436 Live - Continued Short Term Ideas but at some point Scrum Master has to Speak Up!- Today's topics:  (1) When does the Scrum Master or Agile Coach have to step in and say enough is enough?   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 #scrummaster...

#5amMesterScrum Show #435 Live - Short Term Thinking with Code Standards and people and PO Needs more Work than normal velocity - Today's topics:  (1) Continued thoughts from show 428 team vs. organization code standards, and (2) PO wants more points in a Sprint and team agrees, is it Scrum Master's job to stop them? Answer is No, by the way!   Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  ...

#5amMesterScrum Show #434 Live - Fire drill and Opportunity for answers or interactions for the team - Today's topics:  (1) My personal pet peeve the fire drill that is not not needed when we can see it coming, and (2) Teams want the answer now, but isn't the Best answer in the form of the Team interacting with each other.   Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your...

#5amMesterScrum Show #433 Live - Over Testing Over Sensor A Reflection on All the Rocket Launch False Starts - Today's topics:  (1) Over Testing causing us not to or Delay Delivery Product to the Customer, and (2) Over Sensoring our Delivery to the Customer thereby creating additional probabilities of failure that are not really critical.   Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Plea...

#5amMesterScrum Show #432 Live - Sprint Goals to Help the Product Owner (PO) and Project Managers (PM) and Fortune Cookie Friday- Today's topics:  (1) Using Sprint Goals to help guide the product owner in sprint story selections, (2) Using Sprint Goals to help you build a Gantt chart a manager asks for and (3) Fortune Cookie Friday Good bakers always make plenty of dough.   Please like and subscri...

#5amMesterScrum Show #431 Live - Let It Stew (Alchemy) and Audits Beware (5 Points)- Today's topics:  (1) Letting Team establish their own way to conduct Code Reviews and Let it Stew. I only have 3 Enterprise Rules. Tobias Mayer's - Scrum As Alchemy meetup fit nicely with this thought, and (2) Over Documentation can get your organization into an Audit Nightmare, so I have 5 things I ask when docum...

#5amMesterScrum Show #430 Live - Meetings, Meetings - Today's topics:  (1) You have to say 'NO" to attending meetings and what to look out for or Muda and (2) Dangers of Transformation and the overlay of Scrum meetings on top of existing waterfall or reporting status meetings. FYI these next couple days could be a rocket festival.   Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send...

#5amMesterScrum Show #429 Live - Making Goals Visual in COVID and Volunteering to be the Substitute Role - Today's topics:  (1) There are always people rotating in or out of an organization and we as Coaches or Scrum Masters or anyone are asked to Substitute.  What questions should you ask? and (2) Visuals for Goal achievement are so important to help keep us focused, but we have no office walls t...

#5amMesterScrum Show #428 Live - Temporary Experts on your Team - Today's topics:  (1) Watch out for the so called Temporary expert added to your team, "It may NOT make sense to develop that knowledge on the team or it may only be needed for a short time".  Be careful of that short term thinking.   Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You are are doing...

#5amMesterScrum Show #427 Live - Drive the Team, Really? and Large Expectations - Today's topics:  (1) I shared a LinkedIn post talking about Project or in my reframe Team Success and who is responsible? and (2) Manageable expectations unlike 1 person restoring an antique steam train by themselves in their free time.   Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics...

#5amMesterScrum Show #426 Live - PI Confidence Vote why Note Get Rid of It? & A few new Books people have recommended - Today's topics:  (1) Shared two Books other coaches recommended and I got Today Agile Coaching by Rachel Davies and Liz Sedley and A Sense of Urgency by Kotter and (2) PI Confidence Voting why not get rid of it, well I experienced a handful of comments that never really got addre...

#5amMesterScrum Show #425 Live - PI Planning with Surveys and Dependencies and of course Fortune Cookie Friday - Today's topics:  (1) Chatting PI Planning with Dependency identification and using surveys to gather feedback and confidence voting, but don't waste (muda) a lot of time creating the surveys and (2) Fortune Cookie Friday: Soon you will find a competent assistant. Speaking of that I stil...

#5amMesterScrum Show #424 Live - Coaching Offer Give Back to the Community and PI Planning Event SoS Questions and charts virtually - Today's topics:  (1) Offering 5 spots for Agile Coaching 6 months 1 per week about 30minutes for Free as a give back to the community, and (2) PI Planning Scrum of Scrum (SoS) questions to see how the teams are progressing and how to chart it on a wiki page in this...

#5amMesterScrum Show #423 Live - Shark Teeth Velocity History and the Dangers of those 1/2 Point Stories (agile accountants beware) - Today's topics:  (1) Started with the 1/2 point stories and how they add no value and start your journey to a factory, and (2) Seeing Shark Teeth profile in your Velocity History graph and questions to ask the team..   Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterSc...

#5amMesterScrum Show #422 Live - Pony Sprint watching Polo Tournament this weekend and Waterfall take years to change and only Change Course with an Outside action like a Storm - Today's topics:  (1) Attending a Polo Tournament at a local park and I watched how the Horses ran in Sprints like in Scrum , and (2) Reflecting on another trip watch the waterfalls and river cut their way, but without an...

#5amMesterScrum Show #421 Live - Thank you for 13K Subscribers y 13M Views, Velocity Up or Down What I use it to Ask and Empirical Data on Support Functions - Today's topics:  (1) Using Velocity to share with other teams and ask are they really Retrospecting?, and (2) Having empirical data on how much time is spent on support and then leaning it to lesser impact.   Please like and subscribe and sh...

#5amMesterScrum Show #420 Live - Agile Marketing Team, What is Velocity Not and Fortune Cookie Friday - Today's topics:  (1) How Might an Agile Marketing Scrum Team shape their Sprint and Stories, (2) Velocity is Not how long it takes work to get Features or Epics Done.  It is how much work can be Done in a Time-Box, and (3) Fortune Cookie Friday : You would get a prize in luck draw in new year.  ...

#5amMesterScrum Show #419 Live - Dealing with Micro Managers and having your Agile Coach also be your Direct Manager - Today's topics:  (1) How to deal with micromanagers soft and hard approach explored and (2) Is it good to have your own Agile Coach also be your Manager?  The answer is No! but....   Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You are are doi...