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 601 Sparkle Joy No Scrum Today w/ #Scrum Master y #Agile Coach Greg Mester
June 25, 2021 09:02 - 5 minutes - 7.73 MB#5amMesterScrum Show #601 Live - Sparkle Joy with a No Scrum Today Challenge - Today's topics: (1) I hear it a lot, Why do we Hold Daily Scrum? We talk all the time? Ok, so then once a Sprint let us spend 15 minutes on something fun like a game, trivia, picture, last fun thing done, etc.. Why not take on that challenge. No formal Daily Scrum once a Sprint. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. 5...
Show 600 Working Software is King w/ #Scrum Master y #Agile Coach Greg Mester
June 24, 2021 15:50 - 10 minutes - 14 MB#5amMesterScrum Show #600 Live - Working Software is King and SpaceX proves it with every launch and a new $3B Dollar contract, Fortune Cookie 600 and 5 New Coachees Welcome - Today's topics: (1) Working Software is King and proven once again by SpaceX getting paid, (2) Fortune Cookie Celebrating 600 shows: People are drawn to you and look to you for advice and (3) on that note, I'm opening up for 5 new Coachees, same deal as before 6 months 30 minute Once a week on a regular cadence. Plea...
Show 599 Ingenuity Agility on Mars w/ #Scrum Master y #Agile Coach Greg Mester
June 24, 2021 09:02 - 7 minutes - 10.2 MB#5amMesterScrum Show #599 Live - Ingenuity Agility on Mars Flies without Constant Oversight - Today's topics: (1) Ingenuity Agility on Mars Flies without Constant Oversight, so people can self organized and work without someone telling them what to do and (2) Welcome our #Nebraska listener to our #podcast show. I wanted to say Thank You. 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...
Show 598 The Agile Sports Huddle w/ #Scrum Master y #Agile Coach Greg Mester
June 23, 2021 09:02 - 10 minutes - 13.8 MB#5amMesterScrum Show #598 Live - The #Agile #Sports Huddle and Welcome new #Podcast listener in #Egypt - Today's topics: (1) Watching #Softball and #Baseball with the kids an the team was huddling at the pitcher's mound holding their own version of an Agile Huddle. They are planning how to accomplish the goal of getting the next player out and go back on offense. That is what Daily Scrums or #Standup should be and (2) Welcome our #Egypt listener to our #podcast show. I wanted to say Thank...
Show 597 Dreaded Micro Team of 1 w/ #Scrum Master y #Agile Coach Greg Mester
June 22, 2021 15:48 - 9 minutes - 12.6 MB#5amMesterScrum Show #597 Live - Dreaded Micro Team of 1, Watch Out! - Today's topics: (1) Organizations create these little micro teams within a team or even worst an actual Team of 1. Watch out because that is so short term thinking and bad for companies. 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 #philadelph...
Show 596 Scrum Master Top 5 y Cookie w/ #Scrum Master y Agile Coach Greg Mester
June 22, 2021 09:07 - 10 minutes - 14.8 MB#5amMesterScrum Show #596 Live -Top 5 + 1 Things a Scrum Master Should Do and Fortune Cookie Friday - Today's topics: (1) Scrum Master needs to do these 6 Things and (2) Fortune Cookie Friday: Ones always regrets what could have done. Remember for next time. That worked well with item number 6. 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 595 HR Time Zone, Open v. ToDo w/ #Scrum Master y #Agile Coach Greg Mester
June 21, 2021 09:03 - 11 minutes - 15.8 MB#5amMesterScrum Show #595 Live - #HR Outlook 3 Time Zone Rule and Open vs. To Do - Today's topics: (1) When build remote agile teams my wish is that HR and managers would limit the number of time zones to 3 as that is the limit in Outlook and (2) Setting up work flow to start with a state or status of "Open" and not "To Do" as open means to me open for discussion and does not mean we will work it. Where To Do means we will actually do something with it, in my mind. Please like and subscri...
Show 594 Sharing y Silent Tasking w/ #Scrum Master y #Agile Coach Greg Mester
June 20, 2021 09:00 - 14 minutes - 19.6 MB#5amMesterScrum Show #594 Live - Practice Sharing vs "Best" and using Silent sub-Tasking when making Toast - Today's topics: (1) Offering the words "Practice Sharing" vs. a pet peeve "Gold Standard" or "Best" or "Common" practice and (2) Follow-up to show 593 our Making Toast discussion and using Silent Writing to discover a good set of sub-tasks for your stories. Hopefully minimizing the habit of agreeing with everyone else's ideas. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Plea...
Show 593 Toast and sub-Tasks w/ #Scrum Master y #Agile Coach Greg Mester
June 19, 2021 09:00 - 12 minutes - 16.8 MB#5amMesterScrum Show #593 Live - Toast and sub-Tasks, What is the Sweet Spot for sub-tasks and How to visualize it and our New Meetup - Today's topics: (1) I was watching the TED Talk on How to Make Toast by Tom Wujec and I thought it played out well with getting teams to sub-task stories and (2) Our New Meet-up virtual group experiment with lean coffee, lightning talks, coaching circles and lots of interaction. Plus I got my 2nd shot, so I guess you all can check on me. Please like and sub...
Show 592 Enterprise Transform Step 5 w/ #Scrum Master y Agile Coach Greg Mester
June 18, 2021 09:00 - 12 minutes - 17.8 MB#5amMesterScrum Show #592 Live - #Enterprise #Transform Step 5 of a 5 part series and Step 5 is actually Enterprise Transformation and Not Scaling which is different - Today's topics: (1) I'm sharing my thoughts and how I transform an organization as a single #agile coach. Which is not true scaling but an enterprise 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 #5amMesterS...
Show 591 Enterprise Transform Step 4 w/ #Scrum Master y Agile Coach Greg Mester
June 17, 2021 15:50 - 18 minutes - 24.8 MB#5amMesterScrum Show #591 Live Late Night Edition - #Enterprise #Transform Step 4 of a 5 part series and Step 4 is Mechanics and Metrics, plus Fortune Cookie Friday and I ask the questions why does agile revolve around drinking? - Today's topics: (1) I ask the question why drinking and agile, (2) getting Mechanics before Metrics, plus which metrics and (3) Fortune Cookie Friday: The road to success is always under construction. That is so true in the agile thought, especially scrum. Please...
Show 590 Enterprise Transform Step 3 w/ #Scrum Master y Agile Coach Greg Mester
June 17, 2021 09:00 - 13 minutes - 18.7 MB#5amMesterScrum Show #590 Live - #Enterprise #Transform Step 3 of a 5 part series and Step 3 is Coaching The Team and Thank You #Agile #Coaching #Auckland #NZ for the t-shirt - Today's topics: (1) Coaching Leads is my 1st concentration and for something New I would like to recommend the ICAgile ACC (disclaimer I teach this) for Tech Leads and I explain why, and (2) For the Team and the developers I would like to recommend Scrum Alliance CSD course (I don't teach, but know people). That cour...
Show 589 Enterprise Transform Step 2 w/ #Scrum Master y Agile Coach Greg Mester
June 16, 2021 09:01 - 12 minutes - 16.7 MB#5amMesterScrum Show #589 Live - Enterprise Transform Step 2 of a 5 part series and Step 2 is Picking Teams #HR Training and Conversations - Today's topics: (1) Step 2 is about training the teams and picking the make up of teams. Think "Pairs" or "Pairing" when assembling a team, and (2) Communication Tools for conversations and not emails. Agile is all about Conversations in real time. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Grea...
Show 588 Enterprise Transform Step 1 w/ #Scrum Master y Agile Coach Greg Mester
June 15, 2021 15:50 - 7 minutes - 10.5 MB#5amMesterScrum Show #588 Live - Enterprise Transform Step 1 of a 5 part series and Step 1 is Introduce and Train the Managers - Today's topic: (1) I have had lots of enterprise transformation questions lately, so I will a 5 part session with key stuff. This is about training the managers and getting them on board early. 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...
Show 587 Sprint Planning Part A y B w/ #Scrum Master y #Agile Coach Greg Mester
June 15, 2021 09:00 - 10 minutes - 13.7 MB#5amMesterScrum Show #587 Live - Sprint Planning Part A (picking stories) and Part B (Tasking Stories) and Thanks for 5,000 #Podcast Downloads - Today's topic: (1) Something they hint at but don't explain that Sprint Planning is really two parts. Part A 5minutes to 1 hour and Part B the balance up to 4 hours for a two week sprint Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. 5am Mester Scrum #5amMesterSc...
Show 586 Get Everyone in the Game w/ #Scrum Master y #Agile Coach Greg Mester
June 14, 2021 09:00 - 11 minutes - 16 MB#5amMesterScrum Show #586 Live - Get Everyone in the Game - Today's topic: (1) One of my Scrum Master's was talking about getting all the kids into a baseball game and I thought what a great analogy "How do we Get Everyone into the Game of Scrum?" My suggestion is to start small with the Daily Scrum and Team Norms and go from 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 #5amMester...
Show 585 Worried About How Viewed w/ #Scrum Master y #Agile Coach Greg Mester
June 13, 2021 09:00 - 12 minutes - 17.4 MB#5amMesterScrum Show #585 Live - Worried About How Viewed by Others and Fortune Cookie Friday - Today's topics: (1) Watching Gary Vee earlier and his comment struck a chord with me, "Stop Worrying about what others think!." Its key to making Scrum and Agile work. Question how to get there? How do we build trust? What should a Leader do? and (2) Fortune Cookie Friday: No man is a failure who is enjoying life. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. ...
Show 584 Business Continuity Scrum w/ #Scrum Master y #Agile Coach Greg Mester
June 12, 2021 12:00 - 8 minutes - 12 MB#5amMesterScrum Show #584 Live - Business Continuity Scrum April Fools Edition - Today's topics: (1) Business Continuity is Scrum by Definition. Future Scrum Master (actually SEPTA Driver) Eddie gives his take on business continuity and pranks everyone. I'm training my replacement for future business continuity. 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 583 Project Behind Before Start w/ #Scrum Master y Agile Coach Greg Mester
June 11, 2021 10:50 - 16 minutes - 23.2 MB#5amMesterScrum Show #583 Live - Project Behind Before Start when you hear We can Work Overtime and HR Fail. In Agile consistent is not OT or weekends - Today's topics: (1) I did the base rate calculation when your boss asks for a few more hours to get a project down or when Project managers say we will do what we have to to get it done on time - both indications the project is miss managed and (2) HR Fail - where team works 7 days / 24 hours and 8 of 10 people leave, they then hire 20 peop...
Show 582 Knowing Best is Wrong! w/ #Scrum Master y #Agile Coach Greg Mester
June 10, 2021 15:50 - 10 minutes - 14.4 MB#5amMesterScrum Show #582 Live - Knowing Best is Wrong! and Tasking Work for other is short term thinking and long term LOSS - Today's topics: (1) Know what is Best will not necessarily get the Best Creative Solution (Daughter spelling Dad in the picture, I would have never have thought that) and (2) Tech leaders, Product Owners or Scrum Masters tasking work out for the team is short term thinking which will become a long term LOSS of your valuable time. Please like and subscribe and share ...
Show 581 Story of Young Stone Mason w/ #Scrum Master y #Agile Coach Greg Mester
June 10, 2021 10:51 - 10 minutes - 14.3 MB#5amMesterScrum Show #581 Live - Story of Young Stone Mason and the Growth Mindset - Today's topics: (1) So the others day I was talking with a Young Stone Mason and he shared his work over and above his day job, an Entrepreneur. He was of the Growth Mindset!. It reminded me of two LinkedIn posts about overtime and corporate funded education and being of a fixed mindset. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep ...
Show 580 Short-term Coaching Impacts w/ #Scrum Master y Agile Coach Greg Mester
June 09, 2021 10:46 - 11 minutes - 15.8 MB#5amMesterScrum Show #580 Live - Short-term Coaching Contract Impacts, observations for #HR people - Today's topics: (1) Getting up early, Dog is tired from getting up and chasing squirrels, my kid earned $ for cutting my hair and all before 8am and (2) A consistent question I got from meeting with all the managers and scrum masters, How long are you going to be here? I realized these short term coaching engagements are destroying the morale of the organizations. HR needs to step-up and d...
Show 579 Done Journey y Cookie w/ #Scrum Master y #Agile Coach Greg Mester
June 08, 2021 15:50 - 12 minutes - 17.5 MB#5amMesterScrum Show #579 Live - Definition of Done Journey Annotated Agenda and Fortune Cookie Friday - Today's topics: (1) Walking through my thoughts on how I might go through a Definition of Done DoD session with a new agile team and (2) Fortune Cookie Friday: Share your happiness with others today. 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 #...
Show 578 Micro vs. Macro Changes w/ #Scrum Master y #Agile Coach Greg Mester
June 08, 2021 11:37 - 5 minutes - 8.1 MB#5amMesterScrum Show #578 Live - Micro vs. Macro Changes and setting yourself up for a bunch of excuses Why they Don't Improve - Today's topic: (1) Debating the pros and cons of having a central group investigate process improvement and the bad habit that creates for all your teams that you now have to deprogram later. . 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...
Show 577 PM Myth Cost y Time Vary w/ #Scrum Master y #Agile Coach Greg Mester
June 07, 2021 10:47 - 13 minutes - 18 MB#5amMesterScrum Show #577 Live - PM Myth Cost & Time Variable Just Annoys the Heck Out of Me - Today's topic: (1) I'm tired of Agile and Project Management people selling this stuff that Cost and Time (schedule) are variable in Project Management and Scope is fixed. If you believe that two things will happen that is truth (unless the customer is desperate or you have a monopoly) (1) the Customer will not buy from your company and (2) sooner or later you get fired or find a new job. . Ple...
Show 576 DoR The Best Ice Breaker w/ #Scrum Master y #Agile Coach Greg Mester
June 06, 2021 10:50 - 7 minutes - 9.88 MB#5amMesterScrum Show #576 Live - DoR The Best Ice Breaker, Don't start with Team Norms - Today's topic: (1) Definition of Ready DoR is one of the Best Ice Breaker discussions for new scrum masters and agile coaches, because everyone can contribute and people love to tell what things slow them down. It is easier to unite on this as a team. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. 5am Mester Scrum #5amM...
Show 575 Secret Scrum 5th Question w/ #Scrum Master y #Agile Coach Greg Mester
June 05, 2021 10:50 - 7 minutes - 10.7 MB#5amMesterScrum Show #575 Live - Secret Daily Scrum 5th Question That no one Tells You About- Today's topics: (1) So No one told you about the 4th and Secret 5th Questions for your Daily Scrum did they? Hint 4th question is Vacation related and the 5th is Systems Thinking or water cooler chat. 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 #scrummaste...
Show 574 Sleeping in Sucks w/ #Scrum Master y #Agile Coach Greg Mester
June 04, 2021 10:50 - 6 minutes - 9.06 MB#5amMesterScrum Show #574 Live - Sleeping in Sucks and so does Delaying Transformations - Today's topics: (1) I realized yesterday that sleeping in sucks. If I get up early I get 3 hours of quite time vs. like on 1 or 2 hours maybe in the evening, plus people don't ask you to do stuff in the morning (it is all yours) and (2) Delaying Transformations also suck because delaying will never get you there and there is always something happening and filling in that space. Please like and subscr...
Show 573 Big Box Store Needs Agile w/ #Scrum Master y #Agile Coach Greg Mester
June 03, 2021 15:50 - 11 minutes - 15.9 MB#5amMesterScrum Show #573 Live - Racing Cars, Big Box Store Needs Agile and Fortune Cookie Friday - Today's topics: (1) My son said here Dad take these cars for your show. So I did and the pitstop is like scrum, a team of people working on one goal at same time, (2) I was in a Big Box Store just thinking how they need agile training especially kanban. They had unhappy customers and were losing thousands in revenue. Agile example in non-IT world talking 36 years ago and how I was practicin...
Show 572 Def of Ready Wire Agenda w/ #Scrum Master y #Agile Coach Greg Mester
June 03, 2021 10:50 - 8 minutes - 12.3 MB#5amMesterScrum Show #572 Live - Definition of Ready Wireframe Agenda created Live - Today's topic: (1) I'm building an interactive self-organized set of meetings on Team Norms, Definition of Ready (DoR) and Definition of Done (DoD) and I wanted to sketch out the vision and agenda in a wireframe concept before I create the whiteboard space. 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...
Show 571 Agile HR Annual Review w/ #Scrum Master y #Agile Coach Greg Mester
June 02, 2021 10:50 - 7 minutes - 10.9 MB#5amMesterScrum Show #571 Live - Happy St. Paddy's Day - Agile HR Annual Review - Today's topics: (1) Instead of managers and agile experts determining Agile Team or individual promotion or bonus measures, why not ask the team what they think they should be. Now wouldn't that be interesting? 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 570 Growing Mind y PIP Mistakes w/ #Scrum Master y Agile Coach Greg Mester
June 01, 2021 15:50 - 15 minutes - 21.1 MB#5amMesterScrum Show #570 Live - Growing Mind lots of tools & PIP (PI Planning) Mistakes - Today's topics: (1) Reading a good book "Agile Coaching" by Rachel Davies and Liz Sedley as a part of my Growth Mindset and I highly recommend for new agile coaches and (2) PIP outcomes and mistakes: Dependencies and managers. 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 #agil...
Show 569 Smile and Letting Go w/ #Scrum Master y #Agile Coach Greg Mester
June 01, 2021 10:50 - 4 minutes - 6.74 MB#5amMesterScrum Show #569 Live - Smile and Letting Go - Today's topics: (1) I ask my daughter how her test went on Friday and her response "It was easy, it was fill in the oval!" In my mind I'm singing Let it Go! and (2) Just experiencing the journey with your team by letting them run the show. 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 #scrummast...
Show 568 Conversation y Start Small w/ #Scrum Master y #Agile Coach Greg Mester
May 31, 2021 10:48 - 8 minutes - 12.3 MB#5amMesterScrum Show #568 Live - Coaching Conversation Uncomfortable y Start Small with Corporate Transformations - Today's topics: (1) Co-Hosting my ICAgile class conducting coaching conversation drills and how it is uncomfortable sometimes going straight into it and (2) Starting small with transformations verse overwhelming people with change. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. 5am Mester Scru...
Show 567 Doing Agile, Corp Style w/ #Scrum Master y #Agile Coach Greg Mester
May 30, 2021 12:00 - 13 minutes - 18.2 MB#5amMesterScrum Show #567 Live - Doing Agile, Corp Style - Today's topic: (1) Reading an article by Stacey Ackerman - Is you company culturally ready to transform? I would ask is your transformation corporate style where you buy a bunch of tools recommended by consultants but have no idea why you need them or what is agile mindset vs. agile framework which is two different things. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Ple...
Show 566 CEO Agile Mindset y Cookie w/ #Scrum Master y #Agile Coach Greg Mester
May 29, 2021 12:34 - 10 minutes - 14.4 MB#5amMesterScrum Show #566 Live - CEO Agile Mindset and Fortune Cookie Friday - Today's topics: (1) An Agile Mindset CEO making decisions to build trust and lead, but they need an agile company to do that and (2) Fortune Cookie Friday: Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your 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 #5amMesterScrum #scrum #agile...
Show 565 Kids, Baseball y Priorities w/ #Scrum Master y #Agile Coach Greg Mester
May 28, 2021 16:32 - 12 minutes - 17.4 MB#5amMesterScrum Show #565 Live - Kids, Cereal and Learning Themselves and Using Baseball to explain how to manage Priorities - Today's topics: (1) The classic telling people what to do an why, but they still need to fail and learn and (2) Using Baseball to help organizations to manage priorities and work and to keep the focus on what is at hand. 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 564 Big Vision, Coach Metrics w/ #Scrum Master y #Agile Coach Greg Mester
May 27, 2021 10:48 - 10 minutes - 15 MB#5amMesterScrum Show #564 Live - Big Vision to make small things smaller and Agile Coach Metrics - Today's topics: (1) Big Vision and the desire to go to the Moon vs. yell at the guy on the Roof for waking you up and (2) Agile Coaching metrics, just some ideas that could be shared with your client or managers. 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 #bus...
Show 563 Why Bother? y Done v. Hrs. w/ #Scrum Master y #Agile Coach Greg Mester
May 26, 2021 10:50 - 11 minutes - 15.7 MB#5amMesterScrum Show #563 Live - Why Bother Asking? and Done v. Hrs. a different way to hire contractors - Today's topics: (1) Why Bother Asking? A question I encounter all the time. For me it was why bother signing up for a shot? They will never pick me. Then looking at the original train why bother pushing past a stage coach? and (2) Hire consultant companies and pay by the hour vs. by work done. Paying by hour is so not agile. Done is a better measure or a combo. Please like and subs...
Show 562 Mindset, Safety, Mistakes w/ #Scrum Master y #Agile Coach Greg Mester
May 25, 2021 15:50 - 13 minutes - 18.1 MB#5amMesterScrum Show #562 Live - Mindset, Safety and Mistakes - Today's topics: (1) An agile mindset is not the guy about to come down on a few roofers because they started work at 7:30am and they woke you up. So now you want them fired. How does a Agile Leader think? and (2) Building that Safety Mindset as a Leader so people bring issues, concerns and ideas to Leadership without fear of creating an RGE (a Resume Generating Event) Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Plea...
Show 561 Agile Perfection or No Go w/ #Scrum Master y #Agile Coach Greg Mester
May 25, 2021 11:33 - 13 minutes - 18.3 MB#5amMesterScrum Show #561 Live - Agile Perfection or No Go - Today's topics: (1) Deep conversation today after watching video on Visualizing Success and the speakers mention of the Wright Brothers on their 1st flight for 12 seconds. Was it perfect? No! But it was a start to something amazing. Heck Yes! First Flight F/A-18E/F in 1995. Same goes with Agile Transformation, Big Corp Consultants want to do everything at once and they forget about things like essential SAFe or simple and practi...
Show 560 Can't People Do What I Say? w/ Scrum Master y Agile Coach Greg Mester
May 24, 2021 10:54 - 10 minutes - 14.3 MB#5amMesterScrum Show #560 Live - I Can't Get People To Do What I Say? Kind of like Cats? Plus 5 more openings in coaching - Today's topics: (1) I hear all the time I'm going to tell management what I'm going to suggest to the team the solution. By the wat that is not self organizing nor is it Scrum, and (2) Opening up 5 spots for coaching. 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...
Show #559 Camera, Multi-task, Cookie w/ Scrum Master y Agile Coach Greg Mester
May 23, 2021 10:50 - 9 minutes - 13.6 MB#5amMesterScrum Show #559 Live - Cameras On? , Multi-tasking During Meetings and Fortune Cookie Friday - Today's topics: (1) I caught myself multi-tasking during meetings yesterday, so my questions What is wrong with the meeting design or Is there something else I really should be doing? It is not right not to give attention, and (2) Cameras on - As the agile coach I noticed I was the only one with my camera on and I realized I violated the team's space. I don't think anyone noticed but I r...
Show #558 Check-in/out, Team Norms w/ Scrum Master y Agile Coach Greg Mester
May 22, 2021 10:50 - 13 minutes - 18.5 MB#5amMesterScrum Show #558 Live - Check-in/out for you meetings and Team Norms Assembly or Document which is more Important? - Today's topics: (1) Check-in and Check-out are great facilitation tools to help your meeting participants focus and (2) Team Norms and the different times when the assembly is more important when the artifact is. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. 5am Mester Scrum #5amMes...
Show #557 New Job What to Ask? w/ Scrum Master y Agile Coach Greg Mester
May 21, 2021 10:47 - 6 minutes - 8.4 MB#5amMesterScrum Show #557 Live - Happy News You Got A New Job, Now what do you Ask? - Today's topic: (1) It has been about two weeks since I started my new consulting position and I wanted to share some real basic communication things that I relearned. I hope they help and please feel free to comment or message me on new job questions. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. 5am Mester Scrum #5amMes...
Show #556 Agility Makes OKRs Easy w/ Scrum Master y Agile Coach Greg Mester
May 20, 2021 15:43 - 11 minutes - 15.8 MB#5amMesterScrum Show #556 Live - Agility Mindset Makes OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) Easy - Today's topic: (1) Having an Agile Mindset makes creating OKRs easy, as everything screams Business Agility. No wonder why a waterfall organization has so much trouble writing OKRs, as it is against their mindset. 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 #busi...
Show #555 Scrum PO Common Practice w/ Scrum Master y Agile Coach Greg Mester
May 20, 2021 10:50 - 8 minutes - 11.8 MB#5amMesterScrum Show #555 Live - Scrum Product Owner (PO) Common Practice what is could be and what it is Not - Today's topic: (1) Continuing the topics of Common Practice, I wanted to talk about Product Owner Common practice. What it is and what it is not, so Product Owners spend time on Value Add work. 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 ...
Show #554 Common vs. Best Practice w/ Scrum Master y Agile Coach Greg Mester
May 19, 2021 11:24 - 7 minutes - 9.9 MB#5amMesterScrum Show #554 Live - Common vs. Best Practice and building them in an Agile vs. Waterfall way - Today's topic: (1) We talked about the evil common practice in show 553. Not I wanted to address Common vs. Best Practice. Common practices should take on a wiki feel to them and be created by all and evolve vs. in a waterfall way and take forever to generate. By the way we were added to Wikipedia for the term "agilist". Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please se...
Show #553 Evil Common Practice Secret w/ Scrum Master y Agile Coach Greg Mester
May 18, 2021 13:46 - 8 minutes - 11.4 MB#5amMesterScrum Show #553 Live - Evil Common Practice is a Secret Way to Make People do Context Switching, which Defeats Productivity - Today's topics: Watchin TED talk by Manoush Zomorodi (1) Daily Control on Priorities: son with Homework and me Meeting Invites and (2) Common Practice use as excuse to move business owners from one Business Line to another, when in reality common practice only helps in reporting and mechanics. Not talking Best Practice here. Please like and subscribe and s...
Show #552 Job Exp, Hackers, Cookie w/ Scrum Master y Agile Coach Greg Mester
May 17, 2021 12:21 - 10 minutes - 14.4 MB#5amMesterScrum Show #552 Live - Gain Job Experience by Joining a Hacker Group and Fortune Cookie Friday - Today's topics: (1) People always ask me how do I gain Scrum Master or Product Owner Experience without a job, so an option is to offer your skills to a code group and (2) Fortune Cookie Friday: Only when free from projections, we can be aware of reality. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing....