5am Mester Scrum

#5amMesterScrum Show 1,141 Live - Is Vacation Time Yours to Keep or Use?  (2-4-1 10X Tuesdays) - Today's topics: (1) My wife planned on using a certain type of leave time for what I don't know and she built it up and then the corporation decided to change the policy and she lost it. So is your vacation time yours to keep or should you really use it along the way? Please like and subscribe and shar...

#5amMesterScrum Show 1,140 Live - Testing Metrics Manual and Automated (Metric Monday) - Today's topics: (1) Providing some data to help push automation 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 Show 1,140 went live on Youtube, LinkedIn and Facebook Metric Monday 1/29/2023 fro...

#5amMesterScrum Show 1,139 Live - Game Day Speed Bumps and Fortune Cookie (Fun Friday) - Today's topics: (1) Converting Mille Borne game into a agile team game virtual or in person 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 Show 1,139 went live on...

#5amMesterScrum Show 1,138 Live - Sprint Review for Your Career  (3R Thursdays) - Today's topics: (1) So many people complain about year end reviews and pay increases, but never share their good work at Sprint Reviews.  Why are you putting your whole career in the hands of your boss to share the good work you do up the chain.  That is nuts! Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Plea...

#5amMesterScrum Show 1,137 Live - Widdle or whittle  Down Meeting Invites (2-4-1 10X Tuesdays) - Today's topics: (1) So I was watching a facilitator talking about checking in with your cc's and I'm like No.  You should not have cc's for meeting invites except mabe a boss or something and only if they attend semi-regularly. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your to...

#5amMesterScrum Show 1,136 Live - Fun Day in the Snow with Crazy Scrum Master (Fun Friday) - Today's topics: (1) Its snowing so go outside.  Have a snow person contest or fun hour with family or friends and share pictures. 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 Show 1,136 w...

#5amMesterScrum Show 1,135 Live - Ignore Everything Day or Team Only Day (We Team Wednesdays) - Today's topics: (1) The ability to ignore noise and focus is a great skill.  In today's world of instant chat and 1 hour responses, being able to ignore has to be trained.  Starting a Team Only Day once per month and then a me only day.   Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send...

#5amMesterScrum Show 1,134 Live - The art of creating busy work - Calling Each Person on a Team vs. Asking the team to Comment on Issues (2-4-1 10X Tuesdays) - Today's topics: (1) Fresh from a team debate: when to comment and when not to.  The art of creating busy work for managers and scrum masters.  Please give up on scaling now if you don't have a practice of commenting.   Please like and subsc...

#5amMesterScrum Show 1,133 Live - Acceleration vs. Velocity Metric (Metric Monday) - Today's topics: (1) Compare Teams with Acceleration and see how your Retros are doing. Measuring change in velocity.   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 Show 1,133 went live on Youtube...

#5amMesterScrum Show 1,132 Live - Rockets and Fortune Cookie Fun Friday (Fun Friday) - Today's topics: (1) Building rocket parachutes  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 Show 1,132 went live on Youtube, LinkedIn and Facebook Fun Friday 2/12...

#5amMesterScrum Show 1,125 Live - Leveraging Corporate Surveys (3R Thursdays) - Today's topics: (1) We have chatted about this before and the timing is good for many corporations as it is survey time. 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 Show 1,131 went live on Youtube, L...

#5amMesterScrum Show 1,130 Live - Teams are a Balance of Individual and Team (We Team Wednesdays) - Today's topics: (1) Teams don't have to do everything together. 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 Show 1,130 went live on Youtube, LinkedIn and Facebook We Team Wednesda...

#5amMesterScrum Show 1,129 Live - Goals and Visual Meditation (2-4-1 10X Tuesdays) - Today's topics: (1) I'm reading my Life book by Jim Lutes and he talks about the subconscious programing. So I started adding visual meditation to my daily practice of Goal writing. The same can be applied to Sprint Goals. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You are a...

#5amMesterScrum Show 1,128 Live - Planning for Departure by Preparing the Team (We Team Wednesdays) - Today's topics: (1) I read a slack group post about a company taking away the scrum masters and leaving the team to fend for themselves.  In 2024 challenge is to prepare your team. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You are are doing Great Please Kee...

#5amMesterScrum Show 1,127 Live - The Time is Now for You and Myself (2-4-1 10X Tuesdays) - Today's topics: (1) January 17th is give up on your resolution day.  Don't let that happen to you.  5amMesterScrum has lots of stuff to help you with your 2024 resolutions and lots free. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You are are doing Great Please Keep on...

#5amMesterScrum Show 1,126 Live - New Year's Resolution Sharing and Chocolate Fortune Cookie Fun Friday (Fun Friday) - Today's topics: (1) Sharing resolutions post New Year and seeing if the team can support and (2) a new Chocolate 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 Scru...

#5amMesterScrum Show 1,125 Live - Self Time is Now, Do a Personal Retro (3R Thursdays) - Today's topics: (1) Reserve some time for yourself today and do a personal retro.  What worked and what did not. Ask yourself what got you excited or energized. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. 5am Mester Scrum 5a...

#5amMesterScrum Show 1,124 Live - 10X by Reading in the Holiday Bookend Week (2-4-1 10X Tuesdays) - Today's topics: (1) Challenge to read a book this week, put down the social media. Prep for growth in 2024 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 Show 1,124 went live on Yout...

This show 490 popped up on my Facebook feed and I thought it was cute and wanted to reshare once again. Twas the Night Before Christmas IT version Replay Wishing you all Happy Holidays with a little bit of fun. Cheers, #5amMesterScrum

#5amMesterScrum Show 1,123 Live - Design Team Fun Learning and Grow plus Fortune Cookie Fun Friday (Fun Friday) - Today's topics: (1) Doing a little research on team and kid fun.  Per Lego Foundation learning fun should be Joyful, Actively Engaging, Meaningful, Socially Interactive and Iterative and (2) Fortune Cookie Friday Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your...

#5amMesterScrum Show 1,122 Live - Let Your Team Pick the Work from the Backlog (3R Thursdays) - Today's topics: (1) So many managers, Product Owners and Scrum Masters hand feed work to the team.  Please Stop. If a 10 year old can pick breakfast recipe from a big backlog, so can teams.   Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You are are doing Great Pleas...

#5amMesterScrum Show 1,121 Live - Protecting the Team What Could that Look Like (We Team Wednesdays) - Today's topics: (1) Teaching class the other day and people from outside would interrupt the class.  It reminded me of the servant leader role of a scrum master. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. 5am...

#5amMesterScrum Show 1,120 Live - New Year New Learings (2-4-1 10X Tuesdays) - Today's topics: (1) Building a wish list for new year and pick an in person event and save up for it. 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 Show 1,120 went live on Youtube, LinkedIn and Facebook...

#5amMesterScrum Show 1,119 Live - Don't Plan a Year Out (3R Thursdays) - Today's topics: (1) It is that time of year again, Yearly Budgets and Planning.  Resist.  Only go out 6 sprints or a quarter max. 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 Show 1,119 went live on Youtube,...

#5amMesterScrum Show 1,118 Live - 10X Your Team with Shared Growth (We Team Wednesdays) - Today's topics: (1) Many managers and Scrum Masters worry about getting people to share their knowledge and skills because they are scared it will slow the team down.  While that may be true for short term thinkers, in the long run your team will appreciate it. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScr...