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Thursday Night Interview Program with Melissa O'Connell. Talking empathy and life coaching, Interview No. 22.  Melissa O'Connell CEO and Founder.  She Helps Empathic & Highly Sensitive Professional Women stay Positive, Productive & Profitable in Work & Life. Melissa is a Certified Life Coach, CEO/Founder of “Creative Girl Helping the World” and "The Biz Empath".  Melissa is in book Vol...

#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,193 Live - Getting Back into the Groove and Returning from Vacation (4R Thursdays) - Today's topics: (1) I think there might be a 5th R - recovery?  Getting back into the groove after a vacation. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. 5am Mester Scrum 5am Mester Scrum Lightn...

#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,192 Live - Fun Pirate Friday and Fortune Cookie (Fun Friday) - Today's topics: (1) I was enjoying watching "One Piece" on Netflix with my kids and the main character was creating his pirate flag wearing his straw hat.  I figured we have done mascots for teams so why not pirate flags? and (2) Fortune Cookie Friday maybe we will find a buried  treasure in the cookie....

My recording from the IIBA Philadelphia May Chapter Meeting: taken from my co-Authored The Change Book presentation titled Big Dreams Made From Smaller Pieces, Turning No's into Yes's to Help along our Career Journey Greg brings stories about bringing people to work together, certification journeys, saying Yes to Yourself, assembling the F/A-18E/F Low Rate Initial Production Specification one engi...

#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,191 Live - New 4 R Thursdays - I added Roles to the topic area (4R Thursdays) - Today's topics: (1) So I was cleaning up the 5amMesterScrum slack group channel selection and it dawned on me that I should make room for role specific discussion and Thursday's made the most since Thursday is usual an R and roles starts with an R.  Today's I'm sharing changes to the sh...

Topic: Conversations about the Shifts in Agile Space and the Business Agility Institute/Scrum Alliance Skills In The New World Of Work Report This will be a dialog discussion between William Strydom, Integral Agilist, Professional Coach and Leadership Developer and Greg Mester co-Author of The Change Book Vol 20 and everyone in the meetup group. Thoughts: - Are Agile Roles Changing? - Businesses L...

#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,190 Live - Let the Team choose the Measure Unit (We Team & HR Wednesdays) - Today's topics: (1) We are in the process of debating measuring velocity with points or hours.  If something has to be measured to help the team let the team make the call and not the manager scrum master or agile coach when possible.  Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum....

Thursday Night Interview Program with William Strydom. Talking Shifts in Agile Space, Interview No. 21.  William Strydom, Integral Agilist, Professional Coach and Leadership Developer.  An Agilist who is currently spreading the joy of modern ways of working and agility across teams, departments and organizations. He believes in evoking excellence in others.  William and I met through Marsha Acker...

#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,189 Live - Oh No! Retro Got Cancelled! What do we Do? (3R Thursdays) - Today's topics: (1) So many times I hear scrum masters and agile coaches panic because the Retro got Cancelled.  This happens more often than one might know.  Things come up such as production issues, all-hands meetings or just people are sick.  So what should we do?   Please like and subscribe...

#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,188 Live - Maker, Team and Scope Manager Time (We Team & HR Wednesdays) - Today's topics: (1) I was listening to Alex Hormozi's podcast The Game and he was talking about conditions for success as a person or a team.  He shared the ideas "maker" and "manager" time. How the maker time was quite dedicated time to creative work and then there was manager time.  I w...

#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,187 Live - How are Those Goals? Using OKRs to Help with Frustration (2-4-1 10X Tuesdays) - Today's topics: (1) Just revisiting and preparing for Saturday's Webinar on Goal Setting with OKRs.  At the last webinar people started right away on their goals and some rethought their goals on the why front. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send...

Thursday Night Interview Program with Tanya Boyd. We'll be introducing Christopher Connor's new book "The Champion Leader", Interview No. 20.  Tanya Boyd, PMP and PMI-ACP Creative Project Manager.  20+ years on cross-functional teams in the industries of healthcare, information technology, government services, disaster recovery, financial services and mortgage origination and now Chief Communicati...

#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,186 Live - Letting Go of  My EGO (2-4-1 10X Tuesdays) - Today's topics: (1) Egos have their Good and Bad side as some might say but in reality ego is just bad.  It either just holds you back in a nice unchanging space or make you envious of others or even feel like something was stolen from you or you are just better than others. Please like and subscribe and share...

#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,185 Live - Adjusting Metric as We Go (Metric Monday) - Today's topics: (1) There are a million metrics we can use but the are all not need and sometimes we have to adjust our metric process of collection. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. 5am Mester Scrum 5am Mester Scr...

Thursday Night Interview Program with Samara Andrieux. We'll be discussing Samara's her mission today of getting millions of hard-working people out of the predatory payday lending cycle in Interview No. 19.  Samara Andrieux, Epidemiologist, Entrepreneur and Co-Founder of Fundshine.  And we are going learn from her interesting journey and her mission. How can Fundshine help pay off a payday loan?...

#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,184 Live - 1 - 2 Punch Sprint Review (3R Thursdays) - Today's topics: (1) I have Sprint Review on my mind and I wanted to share the concept of a 1 -2 Punch Sprint.  Here the story is reviewed with a PO or single stakeholder during the sprint and then a group at Sprint Review. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You are...

Podcast version from today's Live at 8am EST discussion at the  Product Owner Summit 2024.  Professional Product Owner Career. What Might That Look Like? I did put on a tie to look the professional part.  I did not clip out the pre-topic time and left it in for some fun. Checkout the many videos at the Summit is producing.  Some Great Topics. My topic is the Professional Product Owner.  It is live...

Today I will be Live at 8am EST as a part of the Product Owner Summit 2024.  Rather than do a show today, I think it would be better to checkout the many video the Summit is producing.  Some Great Topics. My topic is the Professional Product Owner.  It is live so I will be as surprised as you all see you there youtube @productownersummit or their website and you can still buy a ticket https://prod...

#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,183 Live - Grow Career by Sharing (2-4-1 10X Tuesdays) - Today's topics: (1) People always ask me how do I become a scrum master, product owner, agile coach or whatever skill they want to work in.  My response is share your skills in public.  the 5amMesterScrum suite of options are available: Slack channel, blog submissions, interviews, masterminds and meetups.  Th...

#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,182 Live - Watching a Local Kids Team Play and Work Together and Fortune Cookie (Fun Friday) - Today's topics: (1) Sometime we over do what it means to be a team.  Watching Kids play together can remind you that it can be fun as well and (2) Fortune Cookie Friday. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You are are doing G...

Thursday Night Interview Program with Dr. Karen Kramer,  Author, Business Women, Coach. We'll be discussing Helping People to take back their Life & Live it on Purpose Dr. Karen Kramer helps women who have gone through a major event that has led them to question "Who am I?" and "What do I want?" to take back their life and live it by their design.  Dr. Karen is in book Volume 19 (the one befor...

#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,181 Live - Sharing Quasi Roadmap at Reviews don't loose the Opportunity (3R Thursdays) - Today's topics: (1) So many teams miss out on the opportunity to share quasi Roadmaps at Sprint Reviews.  The sad part it is a chance to get feed back from customers on what is up next for the team and look for an priority changes that could be made before Sprint Planning. Plus...

5amMesterScrum Meetup session Talking Questions recorded on 4/17/2024 at 6pm EST Topic: Conversations on the Importance of Asking Questions This will be a dialog discussion between Amit Kumar, Team Manager & Cybersecurity Adjunct Professor and Greg Mester co-Author of The Change Book Vol 20 and everyone in the meetup group. Thoughts: - Why should we ask questions? - Encouraging Questions - The...

#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,180 Live - HR & PO Offshore Fail (We Team & HR Wednesdays) - Today's topics: (1) So on tax day I was able to witness and combination of HR and Product Owner Offshore Failure.  The HW Department help create an Offshore support structure and the Product Owner promoted it to their customers, but when the system crashed overnight no one was empowered to communi...

#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,179 Live - Bad Habits Creep into Public Domain (2-4-1 10X Tuesdays) - Today's topics: (1) Watch out for the bad habit of minimizing issues, because those bad habits can loose you customers.  You will say what you practice sooner or later. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharin...