5am Mester Scrum

#5amMesterScrum Show #393 Live -  Reuse Saves So Much $ and Middle Management, Don't Leave Them Behind - Today's topics:  (1) Just exploring the idea of using SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket reused 9 times because it was architectured for reuse, no excuse why code can't be also, and (2) Middle Management and how so many Agile Transformations skip them.  Warning Don't Do It!  You have to engage them and I agree I even make the mistake at times.

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#5amMesterScrum Show #392 Live -  2 Spots for Free Coaching and Coaching the Coach reflecting on my Coaching Session - Today's topics:  (1) So I like to offer some free coaching to people on their agile journey.  I do this as part of my giving back to the agile community with 6 months of free coaching.  30 minutes a week to talk about whatever is needed by the coachee bouncing between coaching and mentoring.  Any where in the world and any time zone.

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#5amMesterScrum Show #391 Live -  Vacation Oh My and the impact on Velocity and Allowing the Customer or Product Owner to Run The Review  - Today's topics:  (1) Team and Organizations worry way too much about vacations and the impacts on Velocity and (2) Allowing the Product Owner to run the review has so much more value than a person on the team running the Review.

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#5amMesterScrum Show #390 Live -  Analysis Stories Danger, Danger - Today's topics:  (1) Analysis stories are carry over from the waterfall world and a waste of customer money.  I would rather do a spike and delivery some kind of verified product.

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#5amMesterScrum Show #389 Live -  5 Random Power Questions and Failure to Fail the answer is Not Really - Today's topics:  (1) Sharing 5 Powerful Questions that you can use with team and people, and (2) Watching Lisa Patrick's video today and and reflecting on some of my failures.

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#5amMesterScrum Show #388 Live -  Last Day of Sprint and Being Late, irony on the Framework discussion from yesterday and Fortune Cookie Friday  - Today's topics:  (1) What to do if it is the last day of the Sprint and there are 1 or 2 Stories left, (2) Picking a framework or going from Scrum to kanban for a team in SAFe, and (3) Fortune Cookie Friday: When pushed, love digs in its heels, this sounds like coaching.

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#5amMesterScrum Show #387 Live -  Choosing Framework is Last after looking at Flow and the Classic "We are funded for 3 months but don't worry there is plenty of budget" is really "No Time" - Today's topics:  (1) Follow Agile Manifesto Value 1 when picking a Framework and (2) You might have 2 years to get something done but if you don't deliver working production code in 3 months there might not be funds there to support 2 years.

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5amMesterScrum Show #386 Live -  Burndown and Review as you Go with the Product Owner and  Story Writing Workshop with a DoR Twist  - Today's topics:  (1) How does a burndown chart not become a Sprint waterfall? and (2) User Story write should start with a Definition of Ready DoR session and not grammar.

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#5amMesterScrum Show #385 Live - 10 Million Views with our Coke and Mentos Experiment Sprints and Is Subtle Influence of the Boss Watching Fair in watching for Team Improvement?  - Today's topics:  (1) 10,000,000 views sharing Scrum and Agile even in the world of Coke and Mentos Experiments, and (2) Using metrics a a subtle way to get team to pay attention to improvement goal aka Scrum The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time..

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#5amMesterScrum Show #384 Live - Shout Out to Product Owners as they have a Tough Job  - Today's topics:  (1) Product Owners have a tough job and they need to push back on themselves and the Scrum Team on the business value in the stories they develop.

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