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Thursday Night Interview Program with Melissa O'Connell. Talking empathy and life coaching, Interview No. 22. 

Melissa O'Connell CEO and Founder.  She Helps Empathic & Highly Sensitive Professional Women stay Positive, Productive & Profitable in Work & Life. Melissa is a Certified Life Coach, CEO/Founder of “Creative Girl Helping the World” and "The Biz Empath".  Melissa is in book Volume 21 of the “Change Series Insights Into Self Empowerment”, with her section “The Biggest Obstacle We'll Ever Overcome”.

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#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,193 Live - Getting Back into the Groove and Returning from Vacation (4R Thursdays) - Today's topics: (1) I think there might be a 5th R - recovery?  Getting back into the groove after a vacation.

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5am Mester Scrum Lightning Talk 1,193 went live on Youtube, LinkedIn and Facebook 4R (Requirements, Reviews, Retros, Roles) Thursday 5/30/2024 from Philadelphia, PA 

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#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,192 Live - Fun Pirate Friday and Fortune Cookie (Fun Friday) - Today's topics: (1) I was enjoying watching "One Piece" on Netflix with my kids and the main character was creating his pirate flag wearing his straw hat.  I figured we have done mascots for teams so why not pirate flags? and (2) Fortune Cookie Friday maybe we will find a buried  treasure in the cookie.

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5am Mester Scrum Lightning Talk 1,192 went live on Youtube, LinkedIn and Facebook Fun Friday 5/24/2024 from Philadelphia, PA 

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My recording from the IIBA Philadelphia May Chapter Meeting: taken from my co-Authored The Change Book presentation titled Big Dreams Made From Smaller Pieces, Turning No's into Yes's to Help along our Career Journey

Greg brings stories about bringing people to work together, certification journeys, saying Yes to Yourself, assembling the F/A-18E/F Low Rate Initial Production Specification one engineer at a time that can be used along our career journey's as Business Analysts. Greg's solution is about Breaking “No’s” into Smaller “Yes’s” with three self-applied concepts: Turning No’s into smaller easy Yes’s, Saying Yes to Our Own Growth and Transforming Our Own Mindset with small Yes’s to achieve bigger goals. Turning No’s into small Yes’s will open doors for years to come.

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#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,191 Live - New 4 R Thursdays - I added Roles to the topic area (4R Thursdays) - Today's topics: (1) So I was cleaning up the 5amMesterScrum slack group channel selection and it dawned on me that I should make room for role specific discussion and Thursday's made the most since Thursday is usual an R and roles starts with an R.  Today's I'm sharing changes to the show content and slack channels after doing a little retro on myself.

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5am Mester Scrum Lightning Talk 1,1919 went live on Youtube, LinkedIn and Facebook 4R (Requirements, Reviews, Retros, Roles) Thursday 5/16/2024 from Philadelphia, PA 

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Topic: Conversations about the Shifts in Agile Space and the Business Agility Institute/Scrum Alliance Skills In The New World Of Work Report

This will be a dialog discussion between William Strydom, Integral Agilist, Professional Coach and Leadership Developer and Greg Mester co-Author of The Change Book Vol 20 and everyone in the meetup group.

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Co-Hosted by: William Strydom, Integral Agilist, Professional Coach and Leadership Developer

Our meetup group meets every 3rd Wednesday of the month.  We are always happy to help Agile and Business Folks share and especially Change agents.

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#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,190 Live - Let the Team choose the Measure Unit (We Team & HR Wednesdays) - Today's topics: (1) We are in the process of debating measuring velocity with points or hours.  If something has to be measured to help the team let the team make the call and not the manager scrum master or agile coach when possible. 

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5am Mester Scrum Show 1,190 went live on Youtube, LinkedIn and Facebook We Team & HR Wednesday 5/15/2024 from Philadelphia, PA 

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Thursday Night Interview Program with William Strydom. Talking Shifts in Agile Space, Interview No. 21. 

William Strydom, Integral Agilist, Professional Coach and Leadership Developer.  An Agilist who is currently spreading the joy of modern ways of working and agility across teams, departments and organizations. He believes in evoking excellence in others.  William and I met through Marsha Acker and her cohort activities towards earning IC Agile’s Expert in Agile Coaching program

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#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,189 Live - Oh No! Retro Got Cancelled! What do we Do? (3R Thursdays) - Today's topics: (1) So many times I hear scrum masters and agile coaches panic because the Retro got Cancelled.  This happens more often than one might know.  Things come up such as production issues, all-hands meetings or just people are sick.  So what should we do?  

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5am Mester Scrum Lightning Talk 1,189 went live on Youtube, LinkedIn and Facebook 3R (Requirements, Reviews, Retros) Thursday 5/9/2024 from Philadelphia, PA 

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#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,188 Live - Maker, Team and Scope Manager Time (We Team & HR Wednesdays) - Today's topics: (1) I was listening to Alex Hormozi's podcast The Game and he was talking about conditions for success as a person or a team.  He shared the ideas "maker" and "manager" time. How the maker time was quite dedicated time to creative work and then there was manager time.  I wanted to share a twist to the idea s it might relate to Scrum with "maker aka Dev" time vs. "Team or Group" Time vs "Scope or Backlog manager" time.

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5am Mester Scrum Show 1,188 went live on Youtube, LinkedIn and Facebook We Team & HR Wednesday 5/8/2024 from Philadelphia, PA 

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