5am Mester Scrum

#5amMesterScrum Show #418 Live - Scrumming Up or Coaching the Organization and a Little Virtual Fun Ideas for your next Daily Scrum - Today's topics:  (1) Someone asked about Scrum Masters coaching up to the Executives and I suggested the Elevator Speech and (2) Attended Lean Coffee in Tampa Bay and got some new fun ideas for those virtual meetings: virtual background or t-shirt competitions. Next...

#5amMesterScrum Show #417 Live - Test Case vs. Acceptance Criteria - Today's topics:  (1) Just chatting a little about how Test Cases are Not Acceptance Criteria and (2) Lots of Meetups out there to join.   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 #scr...

#5amMesterScrum Show #416 Live - Epics and Features 1st then Stories and Laughing at oneself - Today's topics:  (1) Starting to manage backlog at the Feature or Epic level is a better place to start than the story level and (2) Being able to laugh at one's mistakes and not take everything, so serious is important.   Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.  ...

#5amMesterScrum Show #415 Live - Waiting for a Teammate before Decision and Breakdown Work and Time - Today's topics:  (1) It is so easy to make a Decision without a Teammate present but is it the right Thing to Do? and (2) Breading down Time as well as work,   Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing.  5am Me...

#5amMesterScrum Show #414 Live - Team Share the Fun Stuff as well as the Failures - Today's topics:  (1) Too Many Organizations are set up so an elite team/person gets to explore the fun stuff in coding, we got to let the Team do it also , (2) My screw up / failure saved by realizing my Sprint Team should pick the next project for our Sprint and (3) Let the team fail, don't be a Mom. Your job is t...

#5amMesterScrum Show #413 Live - Remembering 911 and the Police and Fire people who risked their Lives, Adjusting Past Point Estimates and Fortune Cookie Friday - Today's topics:  (1) Adjusting Story Point Estimates, Did you get more Work Done?, (2) Working on a 5 point story took less time so you want to lower points. Alternative ideas: refactor, automation, peer review to build a better sustaina...

#5amMesterScrum Show #412 Live - You Picked It and Pride Lost - Today's topics:  (1) Lost Pride?  I Attend an Auckland NZ Agile Coffee and talked about separate teams doing the customer interface, and (2) You picked it so I don't own it.  Teams that have stories and work picked for them, they start making excuses or redirecting responsibility.    Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum....

#5amMesterScrum Show #411 Live - Self-Empowerment is it Missing and Being Your Own Customer - Today's topics:  (1) Yesterday I spoke about a missing login and you know what it was not the Team's fault.  They have been beaten down so much that no one is self empowered anymore to say wait a minute this is a wrong design, and (2) Being your own customer and have companies outsourced so far away from...

#5amMesterScrum Show #410 Live - Product Owner Commitment and No Login - Today's topics:  (1) It is not all about the Commitment from the Team as there is also Commitment need from the PO and (2) Someone really blew a software update and removed the login  link from their website.  How the heck did that make it passed QA?    Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your...

#5amMesterScrum Show #409 Live - Scrum Simple from 9yr Old and having Fun on Labor Day - Today's topics:  (1) 9 yrs old and i quote "You can't add to a Deal, when a Deal is already Done," and (2) Do Scrum and Agile, so we can deliver to the customer and have fun along the way.   Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You are are doing Great Please Keep o...

#5amMesterScrum Show #408 Live - Rocket Sprint MVP and Reviews & Retrospective - Today's topics:  (1) Summarizing the lessons learned (Retrospective) from our Review 3 Launches and 1 Live and (2) MVP Minimum Viable Product examination of the rocket engine holder.   Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing.  5a...

#5amMesterScrum Show #407 Live - Sprint Reviews, Package Delivery y Rocket Sprint 1 is a Go - Today's topics:  (1) If your team or organization hesitates about doing Sprint reviews ask them how the customer would feel if they never received information on a package they ordered and (2) Family Rocket Sprint No. 1 is a Go for tomorrow and we will post videos post event or maybe even live?   Please l...

#5amMesterScrum Show #406 Live - Meetings, 100 year old Documentation and Fortune Cookie Friday - Today's topics:  (1) Moving meetings around is very wasteful and does not allow people to plan their days, (2) Documentation in Comments and Fun Documentation in the form of 111 year old post cards for the Museum and (3) Agile Fortune Cookie Friday: in the new year, staying at home may get some little...

#5amMesterScrum Show #405 Live -  Super Fans, Buying a Car with our YouTube money, Windows crashing just after going Live yesterday, Rocket Project Sprint 1 and Fortune Cookie Special- Today's topics:  (1) Live an crazy show with the whole gang even Bubbles crashed the show.  Special guest star Olivia who made our tie dye t-shirt for Fortune Cookie Fridays, (2) Eddie shows off our car and plane pu...

#5amMesterScrum Show #404 Live -  An Actual Job posting called the Software Factory and Developing a Partnership with Business - Today's topics:  (1) The other day I actual saw a job posting on LinkedIn to work at a "Software Factory", and (2) Listening to Jem Jelly the other day about being over protective of scrum team and sometimes a partnership for success is the better take vs. always saying...

#5amMesterScrum Show #403 Live -  Big Backlogs are a Mistake, Muscle Memory, Fortune Cookie  and a Big Bell - Today's topics:  (1) Big Backlogs more than 6 to 7 Sprints is too Long, as things change even in this little show, (2) Muscle Memory needs to be worked in Scrum and in anything you do, as once you stop it get harder to start again and (3) Fortune Cookie Friday on a Tuesday since we missed...

#5amMesterScrum Show #402 Live -  Some Documentation Needed for Software to Work - Today's topics:  (1) Got a new camera but apparently it does not work occasionally if you use the wrong memory chip.  Sometime Documentation is critical to have software work.    Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing.  #5amMe...

#5amMesterScrum Show #401 Live -  More To A Problem than a Simple Answer - Today's topics:  (1) Reflecting Solution and Business Diversity where so many default to the simple solution causing more issues and Diversity of Business and Competition to keep us on our toes.    Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You are are doing Great Please Keep on Shari...

#5amMesterScrum Show #400 Live -  Agile Leaders Don't Control - Today's topics:  (1) Reflecting on our Balloon ride today about Agile Leaders and how the should not try to control people and teams.  They should only help the up and over or even through obstacles.  Once an agile team is prepared and free the agile leader should just enjoy the ride and watch them produce wonders.    Please like and...

#5amMesterScrum Show #399 Live -  Environment Down and Rushing Fake Deadlines - Today's topics:  (1) Attempted Ballooning yesterday and the environment was literally down (rain) and we should give ourselves room and (2) Rush Fake Deadlines like Sprint timebox close or fake release dates that are not critical and putting our customers at risk.    Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum....

#5amMesterScrum Show #398 Live -  Agile Pasta, Ballooning and Giving yourself and Team Time - Today's topics:  (1) Using Agile to sell pasta during COVID Close down with options for customer, but don't stop there keep being agile and improve and (2) Going Ballooning and giving yourself and team time before the last day.  So many teams wait for the last minute to deliver product in a sprint, leavin...

#5amMesterScrum Show #397 Live -  Agile Sunflowers, Strawberries and Business Marketing Mindset - Today's topics:  (1) Stepping away from the software world and going Agile Business Mindset talking Sunflowers and Strawberries in hydroponics.    Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing.  #5amMesterScrum #scrum...

#5amMesterScrum Show #396 Live -  In the Dark talking Agile, Space and MVP - Today's topics:  (1) Keeping the show brief and talking how Space uses rental cranes vs. large finished building to deliver Spacecraft to the customer. They are really using MVP and prioritizing work to get product to the customer.   Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You ar...

#5amMesterScrum Show #395 Live -  Virtual Agile Networking, Project Management Trigger words  and Fortune Cookie Friday - Today's topics:  (1) Sharing a bunch of virtual agile groups on meetup, (2) Project Management trigger words I hear from agile coaches and scrum masters like Status, and (3) Fortune Cookie Friday: Big fortunes falls from the sky. Small fortunes comes from saving..   Please like...