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#5amMesterScrum Show #613 Live - FTE vs. Contractor Training and #HR Fail, Value Mapping Thoughts for Small and Medium Organizations - Today's topics: (1) Most all Companies make a distinction between providing training for Full Time Employees (FTE) and contractors and that is a terrible HR decision when building teams of mixed make ups and (2) When people talk 3 weeks prep for value stream mapping and 1 week of meeting, that even scares me.  But this can be done with less time.

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#5amMesterScrum Show #612 Live - Go Slow to Go Fast, Coaching Tip with Planting Thoughts and my latest pet Peeve "Sign on Missing" - Today's topics: (1) I messed up and started with my pet peeve (this is why we set up norms so we can get through the show) UI/UX Fail, (2) Slow Down to Go Faster from the Tim Ottinger talk, by get rid of the queue because of less bugs and (3) Using a simple coaching offer of: "what would you like me to watch for" which makes the coachee slow down and think.

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#5amMesterScrum Show #611 Live - SAFe Epic Elevator Pitch and Skills based Retrospective alternative - Today's topics: (1) SAFe shares many topics that are helpful to any team, a real good one is the idea of Epic Elevator pitches just like we say and (2) From Philly XP Tim Ottinger shared a Skills share retrospective idea that was really good.

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#5amMesterScrum Show #610 Live - Timeboxed Talk 4 Reasons to Use Them - Today's topic: (1) Timeboxes a great tool in a Scrum Master's Toolbox that does not get used enough.  We though 4 Why's to use Timeboxes in talking. As Enduring Agile commented on our show: ​Stop starting, start finishing

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#5amMesterScrum Show #609 Live - Dangers of Scrum Masters Assuming they know what the Team Wants, Local Meetups and Fortune Cookie Friday - Today's topics: (1) I hear a lot of Scrum Masters coming up with solutions and I ask them who should you share with and many times the Scrum Team is the last answer but it should be the first.  There is a danger of the scrum master getting too close to the team and (2) Fortune Cookie Friday: One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interest.

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#5amMesterScrum Show #608 Live - Assuming People Talk, Wrong - Today's topics: (1) Scrum offers safe spaces to talk as a team, don't assume everyone get the change to talk and share elsewhere.

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#5amMesterScrum Show #607 Live - Falsehood of Assigning Work creating anti-Teaming solutions  - Today's topics: (1) The other day while we were cleaning up the sprint backlog we noticed a task that was not "assigned".  It was done but no one saw it nor said anything because it was not assign to them.  Assigning work can create Scrum anti-patterns and actual cause things to take more time to finish and it may not be the most robust solution.

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#5amMesterScrum Show #606 Live - Little League Tech Leads acting just like my kids coaches at battling practice - Today's topics: (1) So I'm watching my kid's softball and baseball coaches, going up each and every swing of the bat and repositioning the kid for the next swing. In my mind I see my Tech Leads tell my teams how to do stuff and even writing the tasks for them. Setting up for terrible muscle memory. 

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#5amMesterScrum Show #605 Live - #Motivation a positive Look via Space Station and #MVP exercise while Building Model Rockets - Today's topics: (1) Everyone needs Motivation and I was thinking Gary Vee's version is a little too depressing, so what about if you were on the ISS Space Station.  Would you sleep in?  Maybe one day just to do it, and (2) on the the Space theme let do a #MVP (Minimal Viable Product) exercise with Model Rockets.  It is actual a great little exercise for Scaling also.

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#5amMesterScrum Show #604 Live - Netflix putting out Working Product so the Customer can Decide and our Number 1 Fan came to visit - Today's topics: (1) I was watching a Netflix series the other day and it just screamed working product to me.  I loved the way they provide multiple opportunities for actresses and actors to get work and opportunities.  They provide customer experiments with the short run videos in a very agile way.

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