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#5amMesterScrum Show #473 Live - Happy Thanksgiving and OBS Video feed fun fun- Today's topics:  (1) I'm having technical difficulties with my OBS software and YouTube, as my YouTube can't live without it, But I wanted to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving.  I'm truly Thankful for being able to share grow with everyone

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#5amMesterScrum Show #472 Live - 2020 Scrum Let's Talk Definition, Events (Watch out! New Trick Test Question),  & Fortune Cookie Fridays- Today's topics:  (1) Scrum Definition Not liking Product Owner line, missing what I think Scrum is about and I like Provoking Change, (2) Now there are Five (5) Events with four (4) Formal Events (warning trick question), and (3) Fortune Cookie Friday: Confidence isn't something that you get. It's something that you are. (I would disagree with the cookie)

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#5amMesterScrum Show #471 Live - New Scrum Guide 2020 Rolled out Yesterday Quick Look Into Three (3) Things I Liked - Today's topics:  (1) No More Three Defined Questions - Yeah now it is open to flexibility, (2) No more "Development Team" it is now "Developers" and (3) Sprint Planning: the What and How and now the emphasis on "Why" which I like.

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#5amMesterScrum Show #470 Live - Big Backlogs Stopped or Ready Talk Giant Train Yards - Today's topics:  (1) Is your giant backlog look ready to go or is it a giant mess.  Working with you PO to clean it up weekly.

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#5amMesterScrum Show #469 Live - Staying Out of The Way as an Agile Coach and Personal experience of over doing it? - Today's topics:  (1) Sometimes it is the Agile Coaches job to stay out of the way after getting conflicting parties together to talk and we just provide a safety valve and (2) Personal story as an Agile Coach helping with retrospectives where all my teams found 8 to 12 issues to improve when all the other agile coaches identified 1 or 2.  Uh Oh I might have over done it?

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#5amMesterScrum Show #468 Live - Transformation needs Oil, Agile Coaches have to let Team Self Organize and Fortune Cookie Sunday - Today's topics:  (1) In a Transformation engagement the teams and organization could use a little oil to break loose, (2) Agile coaches have to let go and not take the lime light from self organizing team and (3) Fortune Cookie Sunday with a double fortune: (a) You will soon have the opportunity in improve your finances and (b) You will travel to exotic places on your next trip.

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#5amMesterScrum Show #467 Live - PO is Servant Leader Too and So Needs to be Everyone Else in Scrum - Today's topics:  (1) Introduce how the Product Owner needs to be a Servant Leader and lead by asking for DoR and DoD and (2) In Scrum everyone needs to be a Servant Leader from time to time.

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#5amMesterScrum Show #466 Live - Daily Scrum Music and Daily Scrum Prep Dashboard - Today's topics:  (1) Trying for some fun at Daily Scrum try offering 30 seconds for a favorite Teammate song (great energy builder) and (2) Quick and dirty Daily Scrum Dashboard to help you prepare for your daily scrums..

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#5amMesterScrum Show #465 Live - Consistent Improvement needs Consistent Team & Webinars or "Nars" Not a Fan need Alternative - Today's topics:  (1) Attended a webinar yesterday and they posed a question: Can we get continuous improvement if teams are not continuously funded?  And my take assembled and disassembled in a project based way and (2) Webinars - Not Liking Them, as I went to two yesterday and it did not feel agile.  I want to create a format for interaction and would love your feedback (30min session, and what time AM or PM, how often).

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#5amMesterScrum Show #464 Live - Value Into Customer Hands - Today's topics:  (1) If we waited for perfection then our customers would never have anything of value to use and we never know if they will like it or not.  I also shared a 113 year old post card mailed months ahead of time and compared it to today's communications.

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