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#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,178 Live - Group Gaming Experiment Results are In and Fortune Cookie (Fun Friday) - Today's topics: (1) The results from my gaming experiment with my students and (2) Fortune Cookie Friday. 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 Lightning Ta...

Thursday Night Interview Program with Duane Hill, Jr. We'll be discussing Duane's life as a scrum master, coach, and the proud creator of ScrumBuddies Coaching in Interview No. 17. Duane’s goal is to help emerging scrum masters grab their next role. Duane Hill, Jr. Former educator turned Scrum Master turned Scrum Master Coach. My goal is to create space for agile in school systems across the Unite...

#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,177 Live - Communications Top Skill - use Sprint Review to develop that skill (3R Thursdays) - Today's topics: (1) Report on Skills in the New World of Work by Scrum Alliance and Business Agility Institute share that Communications is the highest sought after skill by employers. .  Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   Y...

#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,176 Live - Pretend You Know Nothing - Act as New Customer (2-4-1 10X Tuesdays) - Today's topics: (1) So many teams and creators assume for some reason the new customer knows the same things they do or understands the company process.  My advice is that if your product is for a new customer, assume they know nothing and turn off what you already know. Please like an...

#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,175 Live - Group Gaming Experiment and Fortune Cookie (Fun Friday) - Today's topics: (1) Ever try the penny game for a throughput experiment for a team or class?  Why not try it with a video or online game? and (2) Fortune Cookie Friday. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing...

Thursday Night Interview Program with Anton Skornyakov discussing his journey from Coach to Entrepreneur to Author in Interview No. 16 and we talk about his new book "The Art of Slicing Work: How to Navigate Unpredictable Projects".  This is a part of our Thursday Night line up of interviews agile people, change agents and business people seeking Transformation. Anton Skornyakov was born in Moscow...

#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,174 Live - Small Reviews with focused Stakeholders (It is not about you!) (3R Thursdays) - Today's topics: (1) Having smaller reviews with just interested Stakeholder what a concept.  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 Lightning Talk 1,1...

5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,173 Live - Selfish or Greedy No Code Reviews with Teammates  (We Team & HR Wednesdays) - Today's topics: (1) Recalling an agile coffee pre 2020 and one coach said that no matter what the team did not could understand what their new teammate coded.  Code reviews should not be bout quality but who easy is it for people to understand the logic to your design.  Some...

#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,172 Live - Meditate y Read a Free Book and Fortune Cookie (Fun Friday) - Today's topics: (1) On this fun day I wanted to encourage everyone to try some meditation and maybe read a book.  In fact I'm offering free PDF versions of my volume of the Change Series.  I realized as I listened to my interview with Angeline last night that is so much to gain from sharing ch...

Thursday Night Interview Program with Angeline Constantinou a Women’s Empowerment Partner and Mentor. We'll be discussing empowering women to step into their own power and identify their true purpose and calling in life. in Interview No. 15 and we talk about what she is up to and what is next for Angeline and her journey to get where she is Today!.  This is a part of our Thursday Night line up of...

#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,171 Live - 45 min Sprint Planning (3R Thursdays) - Today's topics: (1) I was surprised yesterday at a Sprint Planning Session when the PO did a Planning by Feature and we finished in 45 minutes.  How did we get there? Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. 5am Mester Scrum 5...

#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,170 Live - Putting in the Work, Fear and Hate (2-4-1 10X Tuesdays) - Today's topics: (1) Putting in the Work can be very scary and people can hate on you for it.  I share a podcase from Alex Hormozi with my 8th grade lass. We had an interesting chat on hate.  Hating those who succeed.  For me I'm more impressed than jealous. Please like and subscribe and share 5amM...

Thursday Night Interview Program with Annie Mood Wellbeing Consultant talking Burnout and Work-Life Harmony in Interview No. 14 and we talk about what she is up to and what is next for Annie and her journey to get where she is Today!.  This is a part of our Thursday Night line up of interviews agile people, change agents and business people seeking Transformation. Annie Mood, based in the UK with...

#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,169 Live - Know Thy Business Cycle and add it to the Why in the Requirement (3R Thursdays) - Today's topics: (1) There is a falsehood about dates, that they are not needed.  I beg to differ.  Knowing your business and customer cycles can be so important.  And if a cycle is not well know it should be included in the why of a story, feature or Epic depending on the r...

5amMesterScrum Agile and Scrum Sharing & Interactive Meetup Presenting Better Product Outcomes by Gary Cohen, Organizational Change Coach Topic: "Let's Be Real - How Our Planning, Status Meetings, and Product Roadmaps Habits are Holding us Back from Better Product Outcomes"? This will focus on common organizational habits that seem like best practices but limit our ability to create products t...

5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,168 Live - School Bus Late Again Team Dependencies  (We Team & HR Wednesdays) - Today's topics: (1) It has now been a month straight of the school bus being 20 minutes late causing all kind of schedule issues. This is the same thing that occurs for team dependencies and missing dates. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topic...

#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,167 Live - In OKR's 90 days is a Year (2-4-1 10X Tuesdays) - Today's topics: (1) I was listening to Amy Porterfield and she was saying how Millionaires think in 90 days as their year.  Which of course reminded me of Quarterly OKRs and the need to record OKRs that are not yearly based i.e. 10% growth but quarterly or smaller like 2 or 3% growth. Please like and subs...

#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,166 Live - Take a Mini Vacation and Fortune Cookie (Fun Friday) - Today's topics: (1) Highly recommend a mini vacation if it has been a while since a nice vacation and disconnect and (2) Fortune Cookie Friday. 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 Meste...

Thursday Night Interview Program with Dr. Carla Hooker CEO Insights Into Self Empowerment Interview No. 12 and we talk about what she is up to and what is next for Carla and her journey to get where she is Today!.  This is a part of our Thursday Night line up of interviews agile people, change agents and business people seeking Transformation. Dr. Carla Hooker is a CEO and Artistic Director for Ka...

#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,165 Live - Break Up your Sprint Review into smaller pieces (3R Thursdays) - Today's topics: (1) Don't Wait for the Feature to be Done before sharing in a Sprint Review.  Work with the client or stakeholder to come up with good break points to get feedback on.  Aka Stories.  I remember reading the Sprint and in that book they would share a single page and fake the r...

#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,157 Live - Adding New Topic Area Human Resources HR to Wednesday Topics  (We Team & HR Wednesdays) - Today's topics: (1) Wednesdays we talk about Agile Teams and I realized that we need to also talk about Human Resources and building solid Teams from the start. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You are are doing...

#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,163 Live - Art of Saying No and then Focusing (2-4-1 10X Tuesdays) - Today's topics: (1) I was listening to an Alex Hormozi podcast again and he was talking about his ability to say No and focus.  I wanted to add some tips and reality thoughts. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You are are doing Great Please Keep on...

#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,162 Live - Women's History Month Women in Tech History Search/Share and Fortune Cookie (Fun Friday) - Today's topics: (1) Trying to think of some fun stuff for my technology students to do.  My 5th grade son said coloring and I suggested I should find inventions by women and have the kids color that.  He agreed.  So in the theme of Women's history month I say expan...

Thursday Night Interview Program with Gary Cohen Organizational Change Coach & Speaker Interview No. 12 and we talk what is he up to and what is next for Gary.  This is a part of our Thursday Night line up of interviews agile people, change agents and business people seeking Transformation. Gary Cohen Organizational change coach helping my clients create great software products through agile p...

#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,161 Live - Broken Record But Get the Stakeholders in the Reviews Sooner than later (3R Thursdays) - Today's topics: (1) I was in a Sprint Review the other day and we had stakeholders in the room or the 1st time in a long time.  The team finally did it and he they survived and even suggested that more people from the stakeholders department attend next time. Please...