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#5amMesterScrum Show #443 Live - Interview Prep and Dress Like you are Going Into Office and The word Everything is said Watchout - Today's topics:  (1) With COVID most job Interviews are virtual but dress and prep like you are going into the office and (2) Pause when people say words like Everything, Assume, All Teams, Everyone Should and a personal favorite Normalize..

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#5amMesterScrum Show #442 Live - Virtual Interview Questions for You to Ask and Agile vs. Waterfall - Today's topics:  (1) Continued from yesterday's but this time questions anyone can ask to a company during an interview and (2) Agile vs. Waterfall never shall they mix or why not.  It is up to the team and our job to help where we can.

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#5amMesterScrum Show #441 Live - BA Job Interview ?'s and Monday Status Meetings Oh My! - Today's topics:  (1) Talking the other day to a Business Analyst (BA) friend of mine about a job Interview and he/she went right into the answer verse asking questions ? and (2) Status Meetings on Mondays! One reason why I love Scrum so much.  How much can really get done in a day? All we, as a team, want to know is what is getting passed on to other people.

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#5amMesterScrum Show #440 Live - My Daily Scrum Sample for Today & Scrum Karens that just come in and mess up your Scrum - Today's topics:  (1) Just gave an example of my personal Daily Scrum plus a goofy if I was a duck in the rain since it is Monday and (2) How to Deal with those people that come in and mess up your scrum aka Karen (man or women).  The key is that you can't avoid and should engage with them, but how?

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#5amMesterScrum Show #439 Live - Help Make Team Successful as a Product Owner and Taking advantage of the full 4 hours of Sprint Planning as a Team  - Today's topics:  (1) I was watching a short clip about being a Business Analyst at Google and one person said the Goal to help make the Developers Successful - I like that, and (2) I see so many teams not take advantage of Sprint Planning 4 hour time box to share and talk about tasks to get stories Done.

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#5amMesterScrum Show #438 Live - Scrum Master's Job Escalation Only? and the Work Triangle Dangers  - Today's topics:  (1) Talking with a Scrum Master is their job just to escalate problems?  Why can't they help facilitate solutions outside their team? and (2) Work Triangle a term I came up with when Agile Accountants / Auditors / Managers want to look deep into teams causing 100x to 600x in admin clicks.

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#5amMesterScrum Show #437 Live - Team Work Better Than Individual and Fortune Cookie 2X - Today's topics:  (1) Watching the Team Sand our Wood floor Done in 4 hours vs. Days for a single person and (2) Fortune Cookie Friday 2x: (a) if you live out of your imagination, you live out of your potential and  (b) In the new year, a little gambling doesn't hurt.

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#5amMesterScrum Show #436 Live - Continued Short Term Ideas but at some point Scrum Master has to Speak Up!- Today's topics:  (1) When does the Scrum Master or Agile Coach have to step in and say enough is enough?

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#5amMesterScrum Show #435 Live - Short Term Thinking with Code Standards and people and PO Needs more Work than normal velocity - Today's topics:  (1) Continued thoughts from show 428 team vs. organization code standards, and (2) PO wants more points in a Sprint and team agrees, is it Scrum Master's job to stop them? Answer is No, by the way!

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#5amMesterScrum Show #434 Live - Fire drill and Opportunity for answers or interactions for the team - Today's topics:  (1) My personal pet peeve the fire drill that is not not needed when we can see it coming, and (2) Teams want the answer now, but isn't the Best answer in the form of the Team interacting with each other.

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