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#5amMesterScrum Show #383 Live - We are Using Metrics Wrong! and Confession of Not Getting Things Done and Holding me Back - Today's topics:  (1) Again Inspired by Jem Jelly's and reflecting on Metrics and How Corporate and PMOs are doing Metrics Wrong and Doing a disservice to Teams, and (2) Not Getting Stuff Done is a Big Anchor to moving forward to the next Great Adventure.

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#5amMesterScrum Show #382 Live - Job Interview Question Burndown Chart - Today's topics:  (1) Sharing three Burndown charts that I have seen over the years during interviews.  Inspired by Jem Jelly's agile coach interview questions recent videos.

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#5amMesterScrum Show #381 Live - Kanban Timebox in SAFe, Throughput Continued is it time to shrink the timebox and Fortune Cookie Friday - Today's topics:  (1) While reading up on Throughput for documentation I saw where in SAFe Kanban teams also have a timebox, (2) Throughput can be used as a sign that it is time to cut your Sprint Timebox in 1/2, and (3) Fortune Cookie Friday: You need to talk to someone about what's on your mind. Showing off a new tie-dye t-shirt from one of our subscribers from the early days, Olivia.

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#5amMesterScrum Show #380 Live - Throughput and Velocity Metrics Part 1 and Be an Experiencer and Declare to yourself No Longer be a Servant by Volunteering for stuff that you always do - Today's topics:  (1) First look into Velocity and Throughput metrics and why and (2) Be an Experiencer and don't do things for your Team or Spouse and even better Volunteer to do their Job.  Don't let them do what they think you want them to do. 

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#5amMesterScrum Show #379 Live - Celebrating 10,000 Subscribers on our YouTube Channel and SpaceX test launch yesterday, Talking Trash again with DoD and a little Kantor discussion during coaching session  - Today's topics:  (1) Celebrating Just made 10K subcribers, next is 10K connections on LinkedIn and 10M views, (2) Philadelphia Streets covered in Trash Again and Definition of Done, and (3) Talking Kanton Model and Communication Domains: Power, Affect and Meaning during a coaching session or at least my attempt at describing it. 

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#5amMesterScrum Show #378 Live - If Hire, Hire is always the answer are you an Agile Company? and an Agile Coach vs. a teacher of Scrum, Kanban or Agile?  - Today's topics:  (1) The dangers of Corporate transformation the the desire to hire people as the solution, and (2) Difference between teaching agile concepts and methodologies and coaching.  There is a difference and how do you keep those skills up? 

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#5amMesterScrum Show #377 Live - Code-a-Thons are Bad anti-Agile and Asking your team what are their goals and metrics - Today's topics:  (1) Code-A-Thons are why the Agile Manifesto and Scrum were invented to put an end to them, and (2) Asking your team what their goals are and how they would like to measure themselves to let them know if they are going to meet their goals? 

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#5amMesterScrum Show #376 Live - Acceleration Metrics moving average over 3 Sprints and The Missing Timebox in the Scrum Guide Refinement Session - Today's topics:  (1) One more point continued from yesterday averaging out the Acceleration over 3 Sprints, and (2) The Missing Timebox in the Scrum Guide: Refinement?  So how often and how long should refinement be? 

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#5amMesterScrum Show #375 Live - Acceleration Metrics and Trash Pickup Once again - Today's topics:  (1) So again the City trash says oh yeah we will pick up on time and again fail.  As with teams that have major bug or quality issues I like to promote a take a knee Sprint, and (2) Managers always want to compare teams and I fight it all the team.  So I created an Acceleration Metric to prevent comparing Points and Velocities. 

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#5amMesterScrum Show #374 Live - Good Opportunity for One-on-Ones, Task Checker and Fortune Cookie Friday - Today's topics:  (1) Good Opportunity to have one-on-ones with teammates and no one will ever know, (2) Task Checker to confirm all stories have tasks at Sprint Planning Day, and (3) Fortune Cookie Friday: You gather all your resources together. Goals are accomplished. 

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