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#5amMesterScrum Show #493 Live - Complex Lego Car and Doing the Work for New People - Today's topic:  (1) My son got a complex lego car for Christmas and was having issues putting it together, so my daughter helped him by putting it together for him.  Sound familiar like senior people giving instructions on how to do everything, and creating a world of dependency and thereby taking time away from really good people.

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#5amMesterScrum Show #492 Live - Rocket Car and Making Choices for the Customer and Fortune Cookie Saturday - Today's topics:  (1) So I got the kids a rocket car for Christmas and it was not on their list.  Be careful about making decision on stuff you think the customer wants without checking with the customer and challenge the PO and Tech mangers on how a story meets a customer need, and (2) Fortune Cookie Saturday (forgot to do it yesterday): A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself.

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#5amMesterScrum Show #491 Live - New Tech and getting over it and Christmas Sprint review or Demo - Today's topics:  (1) The family got me a new tech (change) for tracking my exercise, but the little agile accountant also wants to track my progress and (2) Christmas Day the ultimate Sprint Review and now who should operate the items from the backlog, you or the Product Owner / stakeholder / customer?

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#5amMesterScrum Show #490 Live - Twas Night before Christmas Release (a Happy Story) - Today's topics:  

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#5amMesterScrum Show #489 Live - Project Management Triangle Wrong and False plus Estimates are Wrong Also - Today's topics:  (1) I saw an ad where a company wants to help my team make better estimates, but on the 1st day of CSM we all say estimates are always wrong, we fixed it by not spending a lot of time estimating, and (2) The PM Triangle everyone talks of constraint is a falsehood. Scope has always been flexible and cost and schedule are fixed.

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#5amMesterScrum Show #488 Live - Paint, Taping or create Technical Debt and Going Agile with No Framework, is it Practical? - Today's topics:  (1) While painting the house I noticed a few cracks around the old plaster tape.  I could just paint over and create tech debt or retape it and get 10 to 15 years, and (2) I read an article about going Agile without a framework and I ask why?  And is it practical, when Scrum is all about the very 1st value in Agile, "Interaction".

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#5amMesterScrum Show #487 Live - Scrum is like making Tortillas, Short Holiday Work Weeks Layout idea and 5 Free Philadelphia Opening for Coaching sessions in Agile - Today's topics:  (1) Watching Rick Bayless making tortillas saying when you don't practice it you are going to fail a few times and that is why Scrum works - We practice all the time, (2) Short Holiday Weeks and breaking it down into smaller time boxes, and (3) Offering in Philadelphia metro area 5 spots for Agile Coaching 6 months 1 per week about 30 minutes for Free as a give back to the Agile and Scrum community for Product Owners, Business Analysts, Scrum Masters, PM;s and even Managers.

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#5amMesterScrum Show #486 Live - Holiday Sprint Planning in your Calendar, Using Commitment Poker to adjust for vacations and Fortune Cookie Friday - Today's topics:  (1) Getting your team to interact with calendar invites for vacation and holidays (important for remote work) , (2) Using Planning Poker to make capacity and velocity adjustments in less than a minute and no more agile accountant spreadsheets, and (3) Fortune Cookie Friday: If not persist, you would not fulfill all your new year resolutions.

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#5amMesterScrum Show #485 Live - Plans Oh My (Breaking Agile Myth) and Trading Complex Stories for Less during Sprint with Holidays and potential snow days - Today's topics:  (1) Planning is everywhere in Agile Daily, Sprint and even quarterly (SAFe) and they help you understand risk and adjust for change easier and (2) Snowday and Holiday Sprint Planning by trading a normal activity of working complex stories with less complex to keep up the velocity. Graduations to India for their Rocket Launch Today!

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#5amMesterScrum Show #484 Live - Writing and Thinking, then Wasting Time in Planning and Refinement - Today's topics:  (1) Heard a great quote "Writing requires Thinking and Talking Does Not" which lead into Asynchronous communications which we can use to save time and  (2) Quick Time Waste calculation using past commitments and Done (velocity) work to realize how much time your team (especially the Product Owner) is wasting in refinement and Planning.

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