5am Mester Scrum

#5amMesterScrum Show #373 Live -  Stretching as a Team and Shark Teeth Velocity History Charts  - Today's topics:  (1) Everyone is on remote calls, so let get everyone to participate in small stretches and interact without always being about work and (2) Creating a Velocity History Line Chart and you see shark teeth.  What is that a sign of and how to fix it? 

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5am Mester Scrum Show #372 Live -  Meeting Death March aka Recurring Meetings and Communications responsibility from the team  - Today's topics:  (1) Recurring Meetings to solve an issue prove that the issue is not that important and (2) Continue conversation from yesterday and this time the failure to communicate by the team.

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5am Mester Scrum Show #371 Live -  PO Not Engaged at Sprint Planning and blames DoR and Scrum Events vs. Ceremonies  - Today's topics:  (1) LinkedIn article on why Definition of Ready was an obstacle and I disagreed because PO was not there and (2) LinkedIn article by Tobias Mayer on Scrum Events vs. ceremonies and we take it deeper.  

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5am Mester Scrum Show #370 Live - So Why Daily Scrum?  and a Zoom mixer activity - Today's topics:  (1) Is you Daily Scrum No Different than filling out Time sheets?  and (2) I was at a Memphis Meetup and we did a mixer question that worker pretty good and was simple. 

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5am Mester Scrum Show #369 Live - No Daily Scrum on Fridays if your Team is spread across the World - Today's topics:  (1) Purposing Daily Scrum using Slack, Teams, Mattermost or continuous chat on Fridays for teams spread across the globe, so people can enjoy their Friday's.  

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5am Mester Scrum Show #368 Live - Trash pickup No Trust and What is Wrong with this team?  - Today's topics:  (1) In Philly trash is has been "1 day behind" for 2 months, Over committing is a Bad idea everywhere and not just IT and (2) Conversation with SM, BA, PO, RTE and Agile Coach and can you identify all the breakdowns? 

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5am Mester Scrum Show #367 Live - Sprint Review No Matter What! and Fortune Cookie Friday  - Today's topics:  (1) Let's take a badly organized team that create story and subdivides into Dev and Test Stories.  Each Story type needs a DoD and they should be Reviewed even if on the local and (2) Fortune Cookie Friday: In the new year, staying at home may get some little fun with the family.. 

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5am Mester Scrum Show #366 Live - Sprint Review Missing Opportunity and Using a Hat to create crosstraining and prevent cherry picking  - Today's topics:  (1) Sprint Reviews are not just Demos, so what does that mean: path forward, risks, etc.. and (2) Managers cherry picking people or people cherry picking stories and tasks, use a hat to break that.. 

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5am Mester Scrum Show #365 Live - 1 Year Anniversary Show, Agile Coach Challenge or reflection, fortune Cookie Agile and Coke and Mentos Experiment Live!   - Today's topics:  (1) I have a couple of deep Agile Coach Reflections or Challenges, (2) Fortune Cookie Agile Anniversary Show: You will be lucky in love.  Personally I must love this stuff as I just did 365 episodes, and (3) Coke and Mentos Experiment Live, yes I'm crazy but not totally. 

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5am Mester Scrum Show #364 Live - Reviews and Stakeholders and Providing Value to the Customer Now  - Today's topics:  (1) Everyone talks the negative about having Stakeholders at Review, but I want to share the positive and (2) Its about getting value to the customer where they did not have anything before a 20% or 80% solution has value also. 

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