5am Mester Scrum

5am Mester Scrum Show #304 Live - School Grades are like Story Points & Thin Skin People should Not try Agile - Today's topics: (1) Story Points vs. Hours or School Grade B vs. 82%, 84%, 89% 85.5%, and (2) From a post by Jack Reed quoting Gloria Steinem, "Agile will help, but piss you off at first". Thin Skin people are going to hate it. 

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5am Mester Scrum Show #303 Live - Holiday and Permission, Are you giving permission to others to break into your Holiday or Vacation - Today's topics: (1) Cross trained teams and challenge to not email people while they are on vacation, and (2) Permission: if you answers emails or text at 2am or weekends who's fault is that? Answer: Yours 

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5am Mester Scrum Show #302 Live - Scrum Value of Focus and Give Feedback the Art - Today's topics: (1) Just talking about the Scrum Value of Focus and Team oriented Focus vs. Individual, and (2) The Art of Giving Feedback and how not to call people out as an example in events and by email and they wonder why it took 6 months to gain trust? 

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5am Mester Scrum Show #302 went live and late on Youtube at 811 EST Tuesday 5/19/2020 . 

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New Interview No. 2 with New PSM Scrum Master Edwin Wolfs on 5amMesterScrum. 2nd in a new series of Interviews with Agile people like you and me across the globe. Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches, Business Analysts, Managers, Business Owners etc... Today's interview is with Scrum Master Edwin Wolfs. He is a new Scrum Master with his PSM, trained and experienced in multiple operations and active in promoting Agile and Scrum in his local area and his company. I think is a great connection to those beginning their agile and scrum journey and how he is organically bring scrum into his non-IT organization. 

This is our 2nd interview and we are experimenting. We will be posting interviews on Fridays at 9am EST based on your survey feedback. Please send me feedback and if you would like to be a part of this experiment please let me know. I'm kind of wondering it this might be helpful for those who are in between jobs and also help our scrum world through sharing ideas and concepts. 

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5am Mester Scrum Show #301 Live - 6 months to gain Team Trust - Oh My Not Good and Giving up your Power to Others - Today's topics: (1) Taking too long to gain team trust when the initial contract is only 6 months, and (2) Allowing others to Control you, Why are you Answering emails over weekends? Who fault is that? Hint: it is not theirs. The people get hooked like drug addicts to seeing your response for both items (1) and (2). 

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5am Mester Scrum Show #301 went live and late on Youtube at 715 EST Monday 5/18/2020 . 

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