5am Mester Scrum

#5amMesterScrum Show #463 Live - How does One Know We are Working on The Right Thing? - Today's topics:  (1) I was watching a Jem Jelly youtube clip and he was taking about interview questions he asks agile coaches: Is this team working on the work things? or something close to that and I changed it up a bit at least in the answer.

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#5amMesterScrum Show #462 Live - Movies Titles in Team Retrospectives and Fortune Cookie Friday - Today's topics:  (1) Saw a connection on LinkedIn do a James Bond 007 Retro and thought it would be great fun to create a movie title based Retro and (2) Fortune Cookie Friday: Failure is the Mother of Success.

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#5amMesterScrum Show #461 Live - One (1) Point Stories and Spending way too much time Assigning (claiming) stories - Today's topics:  (1) Proposal for transforming team that any One (1) Point Story should be doable by anyone on the team and (2) Some Team spend way too much time figuring out who is going to do which story during Sprint Planning and that is not really useful.  Use 1 point idea to minimize it.

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#5amMesterScrum Show #460 Live - Counts, Points, Hours Battle (No Election talk) - Today's topics:  (1) Love it (sarcastic) when the "No Points" people ask the team to record Hours and (2) Why I like points at the team level and hate what agile accountants do with them at the organizational level.

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#5amMesterScrum Show #459 Live - Good Luck in Voting Today and MVP in Rockets - Today's topics:  (1) Wanted to wish everyone good luck in voting and please remember it is like a scrum team do what you can to minimize dependencies outside your control and make what is in front of you really the best you can and (2) Fun stuff looking at SpaceX MVP path with the goal of mass producing rockets.

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#5amMesterScrum Show #458 Live - Happy Halloween Velocity Pumpkin Teeth - Today's topics:  (1) Happy Halloween Drawing a Velocity History Chart that is scary and (2) Even Youtube Rolls code back, so you are not alone.

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#5amMesterScrum Show #457 Live -  Perfect Team Fun Friday and Visualize the Perfect Team environment and Fortune Cookie Friday - Today's topics:  (1) Trying to have some fun and visualize the perfect team with ideas Like Virtual Reality Thursdays (some things crazy) and superfast environments (something grounded) and (2) Fortune Cookie Friday: A friend who hasn't seen for a long time will help you out from crisis.

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#5amMesterScrum Show #456 Live -  No Points for New Teams - Don't ever Point Again for the 1st one or two Sprints Ever Again - Today's topics:  (1) People are always asking me how do I introduce pointing to a new team or team transitioning, so I came up with this after a coachee asked about no estimates.  For the first sprint don't point the stories in the backlog, just have them work the prioritized list during your team's time box and go from there. Here is my proposal in this show. 

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#5amMesterScrum Show #455 Live -  Rewarding Code Reviews - Today's topics:  (1) Yesterday I attended a really informative webinar with the Codurance Craft Events Barcelona meetup by By Trisha Gee- Java Advocacy Team Lead at JetBrains and she had a real nice idea to offer up reward for code reviews and a number of other points that I will share in share shows.

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#5amMesterScrum Show #454 Live -  Bugs Sprint Bad (Not True) and Exposure is going to happen when you Transform to Agile - Today's topics:  (1) Lots more Bugs and the Agile Accountants come out in panic well it should happen and for good reasons and (2) Exposure will happen in a Transformation, like my refurnished floors showing every leaf and speck of dirt. Everything is exposed and I want to fix them because I can see them now, where before it all blended in.

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