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#5amMesterScrum Show 1,117 Live - Dealing with Scrooges and Fortune Cookie Fun Friday (Fun Friday) - Today's topics: (1) Dealing with the Bah Hum Bug Scrooges that invade every company and don't want any fun 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 Scr...

#5amMesterScrum Show 1,116 Live - Risk and Events are Key and Should NOT be Skipped  ((3R Thursdays) - Today's topics: (1) I was running a retro the other day and Risks were on the image for discussion.  So I wanted to share why Sprint Review, Retro and Planning are key especially if the team wants to address Risks Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.  ...

#5amMesterScrum Show 1,115 Live - Let Them Eat Almond Cake, Sharing Food (We Team Wednesdays) - Today's topics: (1) On this We Team Wednesday it is Sprint Planning Day for my team and I'm bringing cake that I baked.  1st time for for an 83 year old recipe for almond cake this time. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You are are doing Great Please Kee...

#5amMesterScrum Show 1,114 Live - Teaching In Person Wake Up Call Making more side money (2-4-1 10X Tuesdays) - Today's topics: (1) Reflecting on my 1st Day of teaching kids technology quickly reminded me what it was like pre 2020 when I used to teach in person agile training for 2 to 3 days in a row. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You are are do...

#5amMesterScrum Show 1,113 Live - 1st Day of School (Metric Monday) - Today's topics: (1) Today is my 1st Day of teaching preK to 8th grade technology.  I will be on my agile toes observing and creating feedback loops everywhere for myself and the students Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. 5am Mester S...

#5amMesterScrum Show 1,112 Live - Growth is Fun and Fortune Cookie Friday (Fun Friday) - Today's topics: (1) On a different take on Fun and enjoyment I get from growing and challenges that come along  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...

#5amMesterScrum Show 1,111 Live - Everyone is Different (We Team Wednesdays) - Today's topics: (1) Already onto my 3rd or 4th podcast this morning and I was listening to the Agile Mentors podcast and they were talking about advertent thinkers and I thought is was a perfect topic for We Wednesday. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You are are doing G...

#5amMesterScrum Show 1,110 Live - Adjusting Your Morning Habits (2-4-1 10X Tuesdays) - Today's topics: (1) Morning Habits when written at 1st are a Great Start to reaching your Goals. But like anything they will probably need adjustments as we learn. 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 Show 1,109 Live - Yearly Evaluation Metrics (Metric Mondays) - Today's topics: (1) Are you ready for your yearly evaluation metrics?  It is that time of year, so what kind of metrics can we suggest to be in our personal and team evaluations?  How about number of Experiments? Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You are are doing Great P...

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#5amMesterScrum Show 1,108 Live - Let the Team Decide (We Team Wednesdays) - Today's topics: (1) Let's the Team Decide on what to do next and designing experiments offering options.  Letting Go a little bit at a 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 1,108 went l...

#5amMesterScrum Show 1,107 Live - Value of Your Time (2-4-1 10X Tuesdays) - Today's topics: (1) Establishing the value of your time is critical to Doubling your productivity and rewards.  Cable company reminded me of the value of time when the cable went out during last night's Eagles vs. Chiefs game. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You are are do...

#5amMesterScrum Show 1,106 Live - Happy Thanksgiving Velocity - A simple way to estimate velocity during a Holiday  (Metric Mondays) - Today's topics: (1) This is a very simple way of calculating velocity during a Holiday Break. 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...

#5amMesterScrum Show 1,105 Live - Making Refinement, Review and Retros into Habits  ((3R Thursdays) - Today's topics: (1) Last week we talked about the time reserve for the different scrum events and I just wanted to had some twists to those time box concepts. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. 5am Mest...

#5amMesterScrum Show 1,104 Live - Leverage Your Expertise (2-4-1 10X Tuesdays) - Today's topics: (1) Want to 10X your career then present at a meetup or post some blog posts.  Share your Expertise outside your organization.  Try our 5amMesterScrum Meetup or our blog site. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You are are doing Great Please Keep on Shari...

#5amMesterScrum Show 1,103 Live - Metrics Pre-Transformation, Did you Ask How they Measured Growth Prior to the Agile Transformation? (Metric Mondays) - Today's topics: (1) So on many introductions to agile transformation, everyone wants metrics and I wondered why?  One reason is because the did not measure anything prior.  Maybe lines of code written or test cases run, but not much post that. Ple...

#5amMesterScrum Show 1,102 Live - Share Crazy Health Goal with the team for ideas to achieve and Fortune Cookie Friday (Fun Friday) - Today's topics: (1) So I was envisioning my Goal to start hiking the Appalachian trail next year and I know so many others will start their healthy goals soon enough so why not share for feedback and cheer squad and (2) Fortune Cookie Friday Please like and subscrib...

#5amMesterScrum Show 1,101 Live - How much Scrum Time? Is it Admin time? ((3R Thursdays) - Today's topics: (1) Trimming time aka utilization always cycles, so let's talk Scrum Time.  What it is really about is having an honest conversation Good and bad about time. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. 5am...

#5amMesterScrum Show 1,100 Live - Clearing 1/2 Done Work to Go Faster (2-4-1 10X Tuesdays) - Today's topics: (1) This applies to ourselves and out team.  Making you own personal DoD and finishing work so new new work can be brought in. 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...

#5amMesterScrum Show 1,099 Live - Velocity Hides Problems - Don't be tricked that everything is ok (Metric Mondays) - Today's topics: (1) While renewing my car registration, I was looking at my speedometer and I realized that velocity hides issues like scope change. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. 5a...

#5amMesterScrum Show 1,098 Live - Scrum Murder Mystery Learning Game and Fortune Cookie Friday (Fun Friday) - Today's topics: (1) Some Team Learning and Fun with a Scrum Murder Mystery kind of like the Clue 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. 5am Mester Scrum 5am Mester...

#5amMesterScrum Show 1,097 Live - Team is Too Fast Now it is Time to Manage By Epic and Not Stories (3R Thursdays) - Today's topics: (1) Yesterday we talked about speeding up the team by not telling them what to do.  Well what is there are too many stories to keep up with now? Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You are are doing Great Please Keep on...

#5amMesterScrum Show 1,096 Live - Fastest Way to Speed Up a Team is for you to stop assigning work (We Team Wednesdays) - Today's topics: (1) If you are assigning work to your team or preselecting my advise is to get yourself out of the position sooner than later.  You are going to fall behind once your team starts picking up the pace Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please sen...

#5amMesterScrum Show 1,095 Live - Personal Branding (2-4-1 10X Tuesdays) - Today's topics: (1) I was listening to Ed Mylett this morning while walking Jerry and he talked about personal branding and I wanted to share some of my observation and area to up your personal brand on LinkedIn. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You are are doing Great Pleas...

#5amMesterScrum Show 1,094 Live - Metric Mess up - Days Since Last Update (Metric Mondays) - Today's topics: (1) I messed up and gave credit to my team for really doing more to update issue.  I was half right and the other half was my fault. 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...