5am Mester Scrum
1,301 episodes - English - Latest episode: 13 days ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratings5am Mester Scrum LIVE Show with Scrum Master & Agile Coach Greg Mester #5amMesterScrum. Practical and Tactical #Scrum and #Agile ideas so we can all get value to our customers without working crazy hours. This way we can get home to family and friends and have fun in the office and in life.
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Show 651 Sprint Review is UAT w/ #Scrum Master y #Agile Coach Greg Mester
August 04, 2021 09:02 - 6 minutes - 9.42 MB#5amMesterScrum Show 651 Live - Sprint Review is UAT Change your Paradigm - Today's topic: (1) User acceptance testing UAT should be either your Sprint Review or during the Sprint. I was coaching a PO the other day and the PO took on this challenge to make the goal of using the Sprint Review and get the UAT feedback in the Sprint and not a month later. I challenge anyone to tell me why it can't be. Hey if you are making software that takes more than two hours for the customer to use then ...
Show 650 Four (4) Sprint Magic w/ #Scrum Master y #Agile Coach Greg Mester
August 03, 2021 15:51 - 12 minutes - 17 MB#5amMesterScrum Show 650 Live - Four (4) Sprint Magic, 5 Things needed to Get There - Today's topic: (1) There are lots of people out there complaining about the Scrum Ceremonies, story points etc.. but in reality it should only take 4 Sprints to get it solid. But there are 5 Things needed to allow it to happen. 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 #...
Show 649 Thinking to Doing w/ #Scrum Master y #Agile Coach Greg Mester
August 03, 2021 09:03 - 8 minutes - 11.6 MB#5amMesterScrum Show 649 Live - Scrum is Design to move people from Thinking to Doing - Today's topic: (1) Changing from a waterfall way of Thinking a lot and Doing Little to using Timeboxes and Scrum Ceremonies to get people into "Doing" 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 #scrummaster #agilecoach #coaching #philadelphia #philly #waterfall...
Show 648 People and Interactions w/ #Scrum Master y #Agile Coach Greg Mester
August 02, 2021 09:02 - 8 minutes - 11.2 MB#5amMesterScrum Show 648 Live - People and Interactions but I think many companies are forgetting the people - Today's topic: (1) With all the talk of returning to the office, I think there are many companies rushing in without building a plan to gradually get people ready. They forgot the people part of the agile manifesto. 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 #s...
Show 647 When I See It y Cookie w/ #Scrum Master y #Agile Coach Greg Mester
August 01, 2021 09:02 - 10 minutes - 13.9 MB#5amMesterScrum Show 647 Live - When I See It I will Know It and Fortune Cookie Saturday - Today's topics: (1) How many times do we hear "I will know when I see it" and people question the value behind a Sprint Review? The other day I saw a box load of telegraph glass insulators real cheap and then I came up with an entire interactive display idea for our museum. But if I did not see the box I don't think I would have thought of it and (2) Fortune Cookie Saturday: One minute of time worth...
Show 646 Merch, OKR, Management w/ #Scrum Master y #Agile Coach Greg Mester
July 31, 2021 09:02 - 9 minutes - 12.4 MB#5amMesterScrum Show 646 Live - New 5amMesterScrum Merch and OKRs & Management question What do I do with a self organizing Team? - Today's topic: (1) OKRs is a great tool for any Agile coach or Scrum Master when they get the question What do I do from managers. Managers can share objectives based on the senior meeting they attend and where the company is going in the next few quarters. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Gre...
Show 645 Working Together to Solve w/ #Scrum Master y #Agile Coach Greg Mester
July 30, 2021 09:02 - 11 minutes - 15.6 MB#5amMesterScrum Show 645 Live - Working Together to Solve Problems Countering the Dreaded Dev and Test Sprints - Today's topic: (1) Companies that focus on utilization vs. "Good" product love the dev and test sprint make up, however, when people work together they are so much more productive and happy plus bug fixing is so much cheaper to get done. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. 5am Mester Sc...
Show 644 Goals Keys to Enjoyment w/ #Scrum Master y #Agile Coach Greg Mester
July 29, 2021 15:50 - 9 minutes - 12.7 MB#5amMesterScrum Show 644 Live - Goals Keys to Enjoyment - Today's topic: (1) Goals are keys to enjoying what we do from a personal, team and corporate perspective. Goals based on metrics are not Goals and they do not create passion and enjoyment. Sprint Goals help create product to review with the customer, increase velocity is not a goal. OKRs help build goals for the future, like automating old testing routines or codes, so we can problem solve new fun things or challenges. Please like...
Show 643 Agile Specs and SOPs w/ #Scrum Master y #Agile Coach Greg Mester
July 29, 2021 09:03 - 14 minutes - 19.9 MB#5amMesterScrum Show 643 Live - Agile Specifications and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) - Today's topic: (1) How to Rethink creating documentation and not in a waterfall way? How old documentation signature process and assembly of release documentation has to change. 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 #scrummaster #agilecoach #coac...
Show 642 Asking, Training, Cookie w/ #Scrum Master y #Agile Coach Greg Mester
July 28, 2021 09:02 - 14 minutes - 19.4 MB#5amMesterScrum Show 642 Live - Asking people Why they Missed Daily Scrum How and Why, New Training on Jira and Azure in the works, Fortune Cookie Friday - Today's topics: (1) Updates: I'm going to develop a Jira and Azure Master Class Training and I finished the interview with Karim Harbott on his new book, so watch in two weeks for that, (2) Asking people Why they Missed Daily Scrum for a day or a few days, How to ask and why you should, and (3) Fortune Cookie Friday Nothing Happens unless...
Show 641 Deeper and Darker Hole w/ #Scrum Master y #Agile Coach Greg Mester
July 27, 2021 15:50 - 5 minutes - 7.36 MB#5amMesterScrum Show 641 Live - Deeper and Darker Hole, A Story about Working - Today's topic: (1) Someone shared a poem, but I could not find it so I wrote a story about walking down the street and falling into a deep dark hole. 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 #scrummaster #agilecoach #coaching #philadelphia #philly #retro #retrospecti...
Show 640 Getting People Involved w/ #Scrum Master y #Agile Coach Greg Mester
July 27, 2021 09:02 - 8 minutes - 12.2 MB#5amMesterScrum Show 640 Live - Two Ideas Getting People Involved in Retrospectives - Today's topic: (1) A Scrum master I'm coach came up with a Great idea (a) to have different people on the team supply an ice breaker for the retro. This gets everyone involve besides the Scrum Master. (b) Then at one of my sessions some one suggested theme music during idea generation, so I thought of idea (a) and combined it some now I have 2 different people contributing to the retro environment. Pleas...
Show 639 Its Not About Your Team w/ #Scrum Master y #Agile Coach Greg Mester
July 26, 2021 09:02 - 10 minutes - 14.6 MB#5amMesterScrum Show 639 Live - Its Not About Your Team, Enterprise Coaching Mistake - Today's topic: (1) So I'm coaching on a trend I was seeing across multiple teams and right away a scrum master said that was about their team and tried explaining. In my head came the song from Carly Simon "You're so Vain, you probably think this son is about you", but it was not that team. My mistake was not preping the scrum master enough for group discussion. There is a big difference in enterprise v...
Show 638 Resist Moving Cards w/ #Scrum Master y #Agile Coach Greg Mester
July 25, 2021 09:02 - 11 minutes - 15.8 MB#5amMesterScrum Show 638 Live - As Scrum Master Resist Moving Cards on the Boards for Teams - Today's topic: (1) If someone on your team says: I did not know I could move something or didn't know if they could move items across the board, then it is time for one-on-one screen share calls so you can see what they see. Don't support Bad Habits. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. 5am Mester Scrum ...
Show 637 Group vs. Team y Cookie w/ #Scrum Master y #Agile Coach Greg Mester
July 24, 2021 09:28 - 12 minutes - 17.6 MB#5amMesterScrum Show 637 Live - Group vs. Team, Scrum in Name Only vs. Real Team and Fortune Cookie Friday - Today's topics: (1) I was reading about groups vs. teams and I want to clear the air on Scrum "Teams" vs a Scrum "Group" and there is a big difference. Scrum Groups happen a lot in transformations in the corporate world, and (2) Fortune Cookie Friday: Not having a goal is more to be feared than not reaching one. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me yo...
Show 636 Micro Reviews v Sprint Rev w/ #Scrum Master y #Agile Coach Greg Mester
July 23, 2021 09:02 - 10 minutes - 14.8 MB#5amMesterScrum Show 636 Live - Micro Reviews vs Sprint Reviews and why you want them - Today's topic: (1) Micro Reviews during the Sprint to create mini feedback loops, what are they, what is their value and how do they differ from the Sprint Review.. 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 #scrummaster #agilecoach #coaching #philadelphia #ph...
Show 635 15 Minute Sprint Planning w/ #Scrum Master y #Agile Coach Greg Mester
July 22, 2021 18:02 - 9 minutes - 13.2 MB#5amMesterScrum Show 635 Live - 15 Minute Sprint Planning, it is possible and adds Value - Today's topic: (1) I have a team that are now exceeding my 30 minute goal for Sprint Planning Part A and now doing 15 minute planning sessions with stakeholders. It is all about prep, but my job as an agile coach does not stop there. The Great Thing is that the Customer and Stakeholders are available to see what Value the team will be work on the next Sprint. Please like and subscribe and share 5amM...
Show 634 Self Correcting Teams w/ #Scrum Master y #Agile Coach Greg Mester
July 21, 2021 09:02 - 8 minutes - 12 MB#5amMesterScrum Show 634 Live - Self-Correcting Teams are the Level Above Self-Organizing Teams - Today's topic: (1) We were riding on a new bike path and noticed the cement people put in handicap ramps on one part of the corner but not the other. Brand new street curbs, but of 1,000's of new curbs and no one questioned the design. A self correcting team would have questioned the design and changed it on the fly or at least after letting the Product Owner know the problem Please like and ...
Show 633 Agile Military Family w/ #Scrum Master y #Agile Coach Greg Mester
July 20, 2021 15:50 - 11 minutes - 15.9 MB#5amMesterScrum Show 633 Live - Agile Military very Self-Organized, Free 5 Coaching spots for Veterans and Fortune Cookie Holiday - Today's topics: (1) Today's Military are great examples of how a self-organizing team should be and Veterans would be a great add to any team or company, (2) On this Memorial Day I'm offering 5 free Coaching spots for the normal 6 month program, and (3) Fortune Cookie Friday Memorial Day edition: Poverty is no disgrace. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMe...
Show 632 Business Agility Space w/ #Scrum Master y #Agile Coach Greg Mester
July 20, 2021 09:02 - 9 minutes - 12.8 MB#5amMesterScrum Show 632 Live - Business Agility and Creating Space to Allow it to Happen - Today's topic: (1) Karim Harbott has a new book coming out the 6 Enablers of Business Agility and we get to interview him, So in preparation I wanted to share my thoughts of Business agility: (a) having Space to React and (b) Ability to Make Fast Decisions. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. 5am Mester Scr...
Show 631 Getting to Market w/ #Scrum Master y #Agile Coach Greg Mester
July 19, 2021 09:02 - 3 minutes - 4.96 MB#5amMesterScrum Show 631 Live - Getting to Market vs. Waiting for Perfection - Today's topic: (1) Watching the Osprey yesterday reminded me about companies that wait to release product to the customer while their competition is taking their customers. 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 #scrummaster #agilecoach #coaching #philadelphia #phi...
Show 630 At Scrum Give Up the Share w/ #Scrum Master y #Agile Coach Greg Mester
July 18, 2021 09:02 - 5 minutes - 7.32 MB#5amMesterScrum Show 630 Live - Scrum Masters at Daily Scrum Give Up the Share, Have each Team Member share their screen - Today's topic: (1) Getting people to be participative at daily scrum is sometimes difficult, so why not give each person the sharing rights for the Daily Scrum virtual video? 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 #scrumm...
Show 629 Conflict a Rough Place w/ #Scrum Master y #Agile Coach Greg Mester
July 17, 2021 09:02 - 7 minutes - 10.1 MB#5amMesterScrum Show 629 Live - Coaching Conflict a Rough Place to Be, but Necessary At Times - Today's topic: (1) As a consultant I hear all the time just make the client happy or the customer is sensitive, the problem as a coach is that something there is a mental struggle to work through, just like your health instructor pushing you with extra sit ups or extra mile. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on...
Show 628 Product Owner Mastery w/ #Scrum Master y #Agile Coach Greg Mester
July 16, 2021 09:02 - 5 minutes - 7.46 MB#5amMesterScrum Show 628 Live - Product Owner Mastery - Today's topic: (1) Leveraging out the 5 Things a Scrum Master can do to make their Product Owner look Good, with two Things for the Product Owner to Master. a) Micro Reviews and b) Being Happy with building smaller pieces of work or stories with value 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 #busine...
Show 627 Don't Let Your PO Look Bad w/ #Scrum Master y #Agile Coach Greg Mester
July 15, 2021 15:50 - 10 minutes - 15 MB#5amMesterScrum Show 627 Live - Five (5) Things you can Do to not Let your Product Owner Look Bad - Today's topic: (1) Scrum Masters forget a lot that they also have to help coach their Product Owners look good and we talk a) Prioritization, b) Clean the Board early, c) Be honest on Stories not getting completed, d) Definition of Ready and e) Definition of Done. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing....
Show 626 #Goals y #OKR not Normal w/ #Scrum Master y #Agile Coach Greg Mester
July 15, 2021 09:02 - 13 minutes - 19.2 MB#5amMesterScrum Show 626 Live - #Goals & #OKRs not Normal and Fortune Cookie Friday - Today's topics: (1) People keep suggesting that their Goals are to meet the commitment or service a customer, well business as usual is not a Goal and Definitely not an #OKR and (2) Fortune Cookie Friday: Never set the tiger free if you live in the mountain. This one was interesting. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on ...
Show 625 Micro Review y Stable Team w/ #Scrum Master y #Agile Coach Greg Mester
July 14, 2021 09:02 - 7 minutes - 10.8 MB#5amMesterScrum Show #625 Live - Micro Reviews or Feedback Loops and Stable Teams producing Bigger and Better Fruit - Today's topics: (1) I was creating a Mural Template for a OKR workshop and showed the in work product to stakeholders and got great feedback that saved lots of time and (2) Allowing teams to stabilize for more than a year produces better fruit just like our strawberry plants. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doin...
Show 624 Updates vs. Working SW w/ #Scrum Master y #Agile Coach Greg Mester
July 13, 2021 15:41 - 8 minutes - 12.1 MB#5amMesterScrum Show #624 Live - Update Briefs vs. Working Software - Today's topics: (1) I was sitting in on an update brief thinking to myself what a waste. I don't understand why people don't invite stakeholders to the Sprint Review and show software. I have done it that way for 30 years, even if it was a snap shot of the product in the 1990's. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. 5am Mester S...
Show 623 3Cs of Daily Scrum w/ #Scrum Master y #Agile Coach Greg Mester
July 13, 2021 09:02 - 10 minutes - 14.8 MB#5amMesterScrum Show #623 Live - 3Cs of Daily Scrum and Why Daily Scrum? - Today's topics: (1) Why Daily Scrum? Because emails and texts lose the need level for help, and (2) the 3C's of the Daily Scrum borrowed from Ron Jeffries' 3C's of a story from 2001. The Card, Conversation and Confirmation. 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...
Show 622 Coaching Mistakes w/ #Scrum Master y #Agile Coach Greg Mester
July 12, 2021 11:55 - 6 minutes - 8.48 MB#5amMesterScrum Show #622 Live - Coaching Mistakes: Wanting Something that the Team might Not - Today's topic: (1) I make lots of mistakes and I hope to share them from time to time. My latest mistake is wanting something that my coachee or teams might not. When you find yourself in this spot, it might be time to take your foot off the gas pedal for a bit. Time to do some self-realization? Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doin...
Show 621 Bring Value Iceberg w/ #Scrum Master y #Agile Coach Greg Mester
July 11, 2021 09:02 - 12 minutes - 17.7 MB#5amMesterScrum Show #621 Live - Bring Value to the Customer the Scrum Master Iceberg - Today's topic: (1) I'm always asked what does a Scrum Master do? My 1st response is that more than just run scrum ceremonies. What they should be doing is all the stuff that is not visible and they should be challenging helping the teams and organization grow. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. 5am Mester S...
Show 620 Customer Agile y Cookie Fri w/ #Scrum Master y Agile Coach Greg Mester
July 10, 2021 09:02 - 12 minutes - 17.2 MB#5amMesterScrum Show #620 Live - #Customer #Change and #Agile Mindset & Fortune Cookie Friday - Today's topics: (1) 6am example of the Customer changing their mind midway to Sunrise and (2) Fortune Cookie Friday: Nothing in the world is accomplished without passion. Shout Out #Podcast Thank you for your Passion in #Nebraska #Virginia #Texas #Spain #Ghana #Egypt #India Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on ...
Show 619 Logs, Notes, UAT Sprints w/ #Scrum Master y #Agile Coach Greg Mester
July 09, 2021 09:02 - 8 minutes - 12 MB#5amMesterScrum Show #619 Live - Logs and Notes, Good Tips to support your #Agile #Coaching Journey and #UAT Sprints good or bad How about get it Done in an Hour? - Today's topics: (1) Just sharing a good practice of logging experience for future #agile coaching programs and (2) I was watching Agile for Humans yesterday and they spoke about how evil UAT testing is as a gate and I would agree, but I have different take. Bringing UAT into a Sprint is a Great Shift Left journey for you and I ...
Show 618 Agile Coaching 5 Moves w/ #Scrum Master y #Agile Coach Greg Mester
July 08, 2021 15:46 - 10 minutes - 13.8 MB#5amMesterScrum Show #617 Live - #Agile #Coaching is Like Playing Chess and Visualizing 5 Moves Ahead - Today's topic: (1) Agile coaching is not necessarily solving the problem in front, but how can we use the problem in front of us to learn an agile #mindset. What agile tools and concepts can be applied to come up with a more robust solution?. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. 5am Mester Scrum...
Show 617 Team Coaching Experiment w/ #Scrum Master y #Agile Coach Greg Mester
July 08, 2021 09:02 - 4 minutes - 5.67 MB#5amMesterScrum Show #617 Live - Free Team Agile Coaching Experiment for One Month - Today's topic: (1) I wanted to try an experiment as I see lots of self starting agile teams or small businesses trying agile and stumbling along. I wanted to offer a free month of coaching for a team or organization with intro training to the agile mindset, ceremony coaching and individual coaching. The only ask is that I can record the sessions for sharing. The organization gets first view and permission...
Show 616 Coach Managers or Bust w/ #Scrum Master y #Agile Coach Greg Mester
July 07, 2021 09:02 - 6 minutes - 8.6 MB#5amMesterScrum Show #616 Live - Coach Managers or Bust - Today's topics: (1) Short show just saying how if you don't coach your team's managers in an agile mindset you are not really going to get far in a transformation. 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 #scrummaster #agilecoach #coaching #philadelphia #philly #manager #leaders #managers...
Show 615 A Real Good Scrum y Cookie w/ #Scrum Master y #Agile Coach Greg Mester
July 06, 2021 15:50 - 15 minutes - 21.8 MB#5amMesterScrum Show #615 Live - A Real Good Scrum and Fortune Cookie Friday - Today's topics: (1) Yesterday I got to experience a real good daily scrum and I thought it would be nice to share it and how they got there or why I think they got there and (2) Fortune Cookie Friday: Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value to its scarcity. This was a tough one. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharin...
Show 614 Agile y IR35 Perfect Pair w/ #Scrum Master y #Agile Coach Greg Mester
July 06, 2021 09:02 - 12 minutes - 16.7 MB#5amMesterScrum Show #614 Live - Working Product is King Way to Go SpaceX and #Agile #Scrum and IR35 the Perfect #HR Solution - Today's topics: (1) SpaceX did they finally landed the Starship and Jeff Bezos protest is cooked and (2) A connection of mine alerted me of IR35 rule in the UK about training contractors. It turns out agile scrum and IR35 work perfectly together due to self organization. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are...
Show 613 FTE, Contractor, Value Map w/ #Scrum Master y #Agile Coach Greg Mester
July 05, 2021 09:01 - 10 minutes - 13.8 MB#5amMesterScrum Show #613 Live - FTE vs. Contractor Training and #HR Fail, Value Mapping Thoughts for Small and Medium Organizations - Today's topics: (1) Most all Companies make a distinction between providing training for Full Time Employees (FTE) and contractors and that is a terrible HR decision when building teams of mixed make ups and (2) When people talk 3 weeks prep for value stream mapping and 1 week of meeting, that even scares me. But this can be done with less time. Please like...
Show 612 Go Slow to Go Fast w/ #Scrum Master y #Agile Coach Greg Mester
July 04, 2021 09:02 - 16 minutes - 23.1 MB#5amMesterScrum Show #612 Live - Go Slow to Go Fast, Coaching Tip with Planting Thoughts and my latest pet Peeve "Sign on Missing" - Today's topics: (1) I messed up and started with my pet peeve (this is why we set up norms so we can get through the show) UI/UX Fail, (2) Slow Down to Go Faster from the Tim Ottinger talk, by get rid of the queue because of less bugs and (3) Using a simple coaching offer of: "what would you like me to watch for" which makes the coachee slow down and think. Pl...
Show 611 Epic El Pitch, Skills Retro w/ #Scrum Master y Agile Coach Greg Mester
July 03, 2021 09:02 - 9 minutes - 13.3 MB#5amMesterScrum Show #611 Live - SAFe Epic Elevator Pitch and Skills based Retrospective alternative - Today's topics: (1) SAFe shares many topics that are helpful to any team, a real good one is the idea of Epic Elevator pitches just like we say and (2) From Philly XP Tim Ottinger shared a Skills share retrospective idea that was really good. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. 5am Mester Scrum ...
Show 610 Timeboxed Talk w/ #Scrum Master y #Agile Coach Greg Mester
July 02, 2021 09:02 - 12 minutes - 16.7 MB#5amMesterScrum Show #610 Live - Timeboxed Talk 4 Reasons to Use Them - Today's topic: (1) Timeboxes a great tool in a Scrum Master's Toolbox that does not get used enough. We though 4 Why's to use Timeboxes in talking. As Enduring Agile commented on our show: Stop starting, start finishing 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 #scrummaster...
Show 609 Danger Scrum Master Assumes w/ #Scrum Master y Agile Coach Greg Mester
July 01, 2021 15:50 - 14 minutes - 19.3 MB#5amMesterScrum Show #609 Live - Dangers of Scrum Masters Assuming they know what the Team Wants, Local Meetups and Fortune Cookie Friday - Today's topics: (1) I hear a lot of Scrum Masters coming up with solutions and I ask them who should you share with and many times the Scrum Team is the last answer but it should be the first. There is a danger of the scrum master getting too close to the team and (2) Fortune Cookie Friday: One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who...
Show 608 Assuming People Talk, Wrong w/ #Scrum Master y Agile Coach Greg Mester
July 01, 2021 09:02 - 5 minutes - 7.09 MB#5amMesterScrum Show #608 Live - Assuming People Talk, Wrong - Today's topics: (1) Scrum offers safe spaces to talk as a team, don't assume everyone get the change to talk and share elsewhere. 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 #scrummaster #agilecoach #coaching #philadelphia #philly #dailyscrum #dsu #safeplaces #communications #team #team...
Show 607 Falsehood of Assigning Work w/ #Scrum Master y Agile Coach Greg Mester
June 30, 2021 09:02 - 8 minutes - 12 MB#5amMesterScrum Show #607 Live - Falsehood of Assigning Work creating anti-Teaming solutions - Today's topics: (1) The other day while we were cleaning up the sprint backlog we noticed a task that was not "assigned". It was done but no one saw it nor said anything because it was not assign to them. Assigning work can create Scrum anti-patterns and actual cause things to take more time to finish and it may not be the most robust solution. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum...
Show 606 Little League Tech Leads w/ #Scrum Master y #Agile Coach Greg Mester
June 29, 2021 15:51 - 7 minutes - 10.3 MB#5amMesterScrum Show #606 Live - Little League Tech Leads acting just like my kids coaches at battling practice - Today's topics: (1) So I'm watching my kid's softball and baseball coaches, going up each and every swing of the bat and repositioning the kid for the next swing. In my mind I see my Tech Leads tell my teams how to do stuff and even writing the tasks for them. Setting up for terrible muscle memory. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics....
Show 605 #Motivation, Space, MVP w/ #Scrum Master y #Agile Coach Greg Mester
June 29, 2021 09:02 - 11 minutes - 15.8 MB#5amMesterScrum Show #605 Live - #Motivation a positive Look via Space Station and #MVP exercise while Building Model Rockets - Today's topics: (1) Everyone needs Motivation and I was thinking Gary Vee's version is a little too depressing, so what about if you were on the ISS Space Station. Would you sleep in? Maybe one day just to do it, and (2) on the the Space theme let do a #MVP (Minimal Viable Product) exercise with Model Rockets. It is actual a great little exercise for Scaling also...
Show 604 Netflix Working Product w/ #Scrum Master y #Agile Coach Greg Mester
June 28, 2021 09:01 - 6 minutes - 8.28 MB#5amMesterScrum Show #604 Live - Netflix putting out Working Product so the Customer can Decide and our Number 1 Fan came to visit - Today's topics: (1) I was watching a Netflix series the other day and it just screamed working product to me. I loved the way they provide multiple opportunities for actresses and actors to get work and opportunities. They provide customer experiments with the short run videos in a very agile way. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please s...
Show 603 Pirates, Rockets, Cookies w/ #Scrum Master y #Agile Coach Greg Mester
June 27, 2021 09:03 - 12 minutes - 17.3 MB#5amMesterScrum Show #603 Live - Pirates and Contractors Protecting your Company, Rockets and Again Working Software is King, and Fortune Cookie Friday - Today's topics: (1) Again #SpaceX proves once Working Software is King and Reusable, (2) Watching a Pirate documentary and they talked how shipping companies would hire contractors to protect their assets, but the contractors would typically give up the ship to Pirates and (3) Fortune Cookie Friday: Redecorating will be in your plans. Thi...
Show 602 Are You Really Transforming w/ #Scrum Master y Agile Coach Greg Mester
June 26, 2021 09:01 - 8 minutes - 11.7 MB#5amMesterScrum Show #602 Live - Are You Really Transforming if you have not updated your working agreements in a long time? - Today's topic: (1) Are you transforming and stopped and only have one arm extended? A manager asked me the other day how often do we update the working agreement. That evolved into if you don't update the documents at least once a quarter are you really improving? Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing ...