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5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,168 Live - School Bus Late Again Team Dependencies  (We Team & HR Wednesdays) - Today's topics: (1) It has now been a month straight of the school bus being 20 minutes late causing all kind of schedule issues. This is the same thing that occurs for team dependencies and missing dates.

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5am Mester Scrum Show 1,168 went live on Youtube, LinkedIn and Facebook We Team & HR Wednesday 3/20/2023 from Philadelphia, PA 

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#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,167 Live - In OKR's 90 days is a Year (2-4-1 10X Tuesdays) - Today's topics: (1) I was listening to Amy Porterfield and she was saying how Millionaires think in 90 days as their year.  Which of course reminded me of Quarterly OKRs and the need to record OKRs that are not yearly based i.e. 10% growth but quarterly or smaller like 2 or 3% growth.

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5am Mester Scrum Lightning Talk 1,167 went live on Youtube, LinkedIn and Facebook 2-4-1 10X Tuesday 3/19/2024 from Philadelphia, PA 

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#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,166 Live - Take a Mini Vacation and Fortune Cookie (Fun Friday) - Today's topics: (1) Highly recommend a mini vacation if it has been a while since a nice vacation and disconnect and (2) Fortune Cookie Friday.

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5am Mester Scrum Lightning Talk 1,166 went live on Youtube, LinkedIn and Facebook Fun Friday 3/15/2024 from Philadelphia, PA 

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Thursday Night Interview Program with Dr. Carla Hooker CEO Insights Into Self Empowerment Interview No. 12 and we talk about what she is up to and what is next for Carla and her journey to get where she is Today!.  This is a part of our Thursday Night line up of interviews agile people, change agents and business people seeking Transformation.

Dr. Carla Hooker is a CEO and Artistic Director for Karla's Kids Musical Ministries School of Liturgical Dance.  Carla and I are both in Book Volume 20 of the Change Series Insights Into Self Empowerment with her section called Adversity to Strength: Unveiling Resilience.

This interview is one of three we are celebrating during Women's History Month.  These women are making history and help others along the way.

The Thursday Night show will start at 8pm EST with the podcast version to follow up at 9pm EST.  Please stay tune for more interviews with agile people and change agents. Please reach out if you want to be on the show. 

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#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,165 Live - Break Up your Sprint Review into smaller pieces (3R Thursdays) - Today's topics: (1) Don't Wait for the Feature to be Done before sharing in a Sprint Review.  Work with the client or stakeholder to come up with good break points to get feedback on.  Aka Stories.  I remember reading the Sprint and in that book they would share a single page and fake the rest.

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5am Mester Scrum Lightning Talk 1,165 went live on Youtube, LinkedIn and Facebook 3R (Requirements, Reviews, Retros) Thursday 3/14/2024 from Philadelphia, PA 

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#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,157 Live - Adding New Topic Area Human Resources HR to Wednesday Topics  (We Team & HR Wednesdays) - Today's topics: (1) Wednesdays we talk about Agile Teams and I realized that we need to also talk about Human Resources and building solid Teams from the start.

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5am Mester Scrum Show 1,164 went live on Youtube, LinkedIn and Facebook We Team & HR Wednesday 3/13/2023 from Philadelphia, PA 

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#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,163 Live - Art of Saying No and then Focusing (2-4-1 10X Tuesdays) - Today's topics: (1) I was listening to an Alex Hormozi podcast again and he was talking about his ability to say No and focus.  I wanted to add some tips and reality thoughts.

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5am Mester Scrum Lightning Talk 1,163 went live on Youtube, LinkedIn and Facebook 2-4-1 10X Tuesday 3/12/2024 from Philadelphia, PA 

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#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,162 Live - Women's History Month Women in Tech History Search/Share and Fortune Cookie (Fun Friday) - Today's topics: (1) Trying to think of some fun stuff for my technology students to do.  My 5th grade son said coloring and I suggested I should find inventions by women and have the kids color that.  He agreed.  So in the theme of Women's history month I say expand the brain with the team and have them find women in tech and create a quick shared page with what they find.  They will be surprised, or at least some will be. Oh and then do a trivia game and (2) fortune Cookie Friday.

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5am Mester Scrum Lightning Talk 1,162 went live on Youtube, LinkedIn and Facebook Fun Friday 3/8/2024 from Philadelphia, PA 

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Thursday Night Interview Program with Gary Cohen Organizational Change Coach & Speaker Interview No. 12 and we talk what is he up to and what is next for Gary.  This is a part of our Thursday Night line up of interviews agile people, change agents and business people seeking Transformation.

Gary Cohen Organizational change coach helping my clients create great software products through agile principles, organizational change best practices, & software development expertise.

Gary is based outside of Philadelphia and is a life long Eagles, Phillies, Sixers, and Flyers fan.  He is going to speak at our March 20, 2024 5amMesterScrum Meetup event.  Then he is off to be a Keynote Speaker at the Product Owner Summit 2024 and also a leader for his own meetup group Philadelphia Area Agile Coaching Dojo.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/garyacohen/

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#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,161 Live - Broken Record But Get the Stakeholders in the Reviews Sooner than later (3R Thursdays) - Today's topics: (1) I was in a Sprint Review the other day and we had stakeholders in the room or the 1st time in a long time.  The team finally did it and he they survived and even suggested that more people from the stakeholders department attend next time.

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5am Mester Scrum Lightning Talk 1,161 went live on Youtube, LinkedIn and Facebook 3R (Requirements, Reviews, Retros) Thursday 3/7/2024 from Philadelphia, PA 

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