5am Mester Scrum

#5amMesterScrum Show #503 Live - Value and Old Stories  - Today's topics:  (1) Adding Value to some that does not take much like a cookie recipe on a Holiday card and (2) Old Stories have No Value because they never made it to the Customer.  Value is not the time invested in something and maybe you should look at your process if you invest that much time into something that is never produced?

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#5amMesterScrum Show #502 Live - Burning Motivation to Achieve your Goals and Visualize the End State and the Path to Get There - Today's topics:  (1) Watching Valuentainment and this Father's (Mr. Milton @fatherofballers) tweet about watching out for the kid on the other team staring at the other team celebrating a win, generating that fire to be there next year and the ones who have generated that fire in me and (2) Visualizing the Goal and the Path to get there.  Write it down and watch every day. Break it Down!

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#5amMesterScrum Show #501 Live from the Delaware River - Cleaning up Trash and Backlog for fresh start in New Year - Today's topics:  (1) Since in transition I wanted to do some clean up work at the local Delaware River Park and reflect on Cleaning up Backlog from trash just floating around.  Now is a Good Time to clean up trash in your backlog before the year gets moving.

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#5amMesterScrum Show #500 Live - Ed the Scrum Master and taking Kanban and SPC Classes this month - Today's topics:  (1) Guest Scrum Master Edward starting us off with 3 questions and (2) Taking the plunge into SAFe with an SPC course and Kanban today.

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#5amMesterScrum Show #499 Live - Keeping Agile SW Simple and Small Steps verse Doing Everything at Once - Today's topics:  (1) Too many organizations and people try to make agile Software collect all kinds of data, while the basics will get any team 90% of what they need and (2) Taking small steps in life and in work, sharing how we are taking short drives with the adopted dogs so they feel safe and confident.

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#5amMesterScrum Show #498 Live - Scrum is the Finite Element to Scaling and PI Feature Sizing Pitfall  - Today's topics:  (1) Lots of talk about SAFe lately and I just wanted to share how Scrum is an essential elements to any Scaled Operation whether is be SAFe, S@S, Nextus, LeSS, ect.. and (2) PI Planning Feature Size UNder estimating to "Do More" for the customer is going to kill your budget and funding.

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#5amMesterScrum Show #497 Live - New Years Day 2021 and Making New Plans - Today's topic:  (1) Wishing Everyone a Happy and Healthy 2021 New Year.  As a agile thinker I know things change and we have to be flexible.  Not planning too far ahead and always growing and learning.  New virtual class re-certifications and new certifications for myself.  Also that we are not alone in 2021, please feel to connect with me if you need anyone to chat with about agile and work.

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#5amMesterScrum Show #496 Live - Contractor's Life on New Years Eve (1 Day Notice - Funding Cut) and on Reflecting on Past Year & Owning It - Today's topics:  (1) Reflecting on the past year on New Years Eve do you blame others or a virus or it is most yourself not taking control (this is me), Positive is stuff did get Done (Win), Can't Blame others! and (2) Life as a Contractor and 1 Day Notice are you prepared and in my case I should have known.

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#5amMesterScrum Show #495 Live - Virtual Restaurant Concept Mr. BeastBurger and Diversity for your team and trying people of all makes and sizes - Today's topics:  (1) Kids are Big Fans of MrBeast and he started a virtual restaurant, which is so Agile that I wanted to share.  Who says you can't do an entire Business Model Agile? and (2) Team Diversity introducing Betty and Jerry our new team members.  They are not what I envisioned for my future but they they are good solid teammates. Definitely different from my old Giant Dog, but they bring in a different perspective.

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#5amMesterScrum Show #494 Live - To Study or To Do is the Question, Agile lean more towards DO - Today's topic:  (1) Talking about going out and doing things or exploring verse studying every function before using it, Risk adverse and (2) Podcasts are out.

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