5am Mester Scrum

#5amMesterScrum Show #433 Live - Over Testing Over Sensor A Reflection on All the Rocket Launch False Starts - Today's topics:  (1) Over Testing causing us not to or Delay Delivery Product to the Customer, and (2) Over Sensoring our Delivery to the Customer thereby creating additional probabilities of failure that are not really critical.

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#5amMesterScrum Show #432 Live - Sprint Goals to Help the Product Owner (PO) and Project Managers (PM) and Fortune Cookie Friday- Today's topics:  (1) Using Sprint Goals to help guide the product owner in sprint story selections, (2) Using Sprint Goals to help you build a Gantt chart a manager asks for and (3) Fortune Cookie Friday Good bakers always make plenty of dough.

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#5amMesterScrum Show #431 Live - Let It Stew (Alchemy) and Audits Beware (5 Points)- Today's topics:  (1) Letting Team establish their own way to conduct Code Reviews and Let it Stew. I only have 3 Enterprise Rules. Tobias Mayer's - Scrum As Alchemy meetup fit nicely with this thought, and (2) Over Documentation can get your organization into an Audit Nightmare, so I have 5 things I ask when documenting.

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#5amMesterScrum Show #430 Live - Meetings, Meetings - Today's topics:  (1) You have to say 'NO" to attending meetings and what to look out for or Muda and (2) Dangers of Transformation and the overlay of Scrum meetings on top of existing waterfall or reporting status meetings. FYI these next couple days could be a rocket festival.

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#5amMesterScrum Show #429 Live - Making Goals Visual in COVID and Volunteering to be the Substitute Role - Today's topics:  (1) There are always people rotating in or out of an organization and we as Coaches or Scrum Masters or anyone are asked to Substitute.  What questions should you ask? and (2) Visuals for Goal achievement are so important to help keep us focused, but we have no office walls to see everyday. I had been failing because I stopped looking at my visual goal daily. 

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#5amMesterScrum Show #428 Live - Temporary Experts on your Team - Today's topics:  (1) Watch out for the so called Temporary expert added to your team, "It may NOT make sense to develop that knowledge on the team or it may only be needed for a short time".  Be careful of that short term thinking.

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#5amMesterScrum Show #427 Live - Drive the Team, Really? and Large Expectations - Today's topics:  (1) I shared a LinkedIn post talking about Project or in my reframe Team Success and who is responsible? and (2) Manageable expectations unlike 1 person restoring an antique steam train by themselves in their free time.

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#5amMesterScrum Show #426 Live - PI Confidence Vote why Note Get Rid of It? & A few new Books people have recommended - Today's topics:  (1) Shared two Books other coaches recommended and I got Today Agile Coaching by Rachel Davies and Liz Sedley and A Sense of Urgency by Kotter and (2) PI Confidence Voting why not get rid of it, well I experienced a handful of comments that never really got addressed during 2 days of planning, so I say keep it!

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#5amMesterScrum Show #425 Live - PI Planning with Surveys and Dependencies and of course Fortune Cookie Friday - Today's topics:  (1) Chatting PI Planning with Dependency identification and using surveys to gather feedback and confidence voting, but don't waste (muda) a lot of time creating the surveys and (2) Fortune Cookie Friday: Soon you will find a competent assistant. Speaking of that I still have one spot left for free coaching.

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#5amMesterScrum Show #424 Live - Coaching Offer Give Back to the Community and PI Planning Event SoS Questions and charts virtually - Today's topics:  (1) Offering 5 spots for Agile Coaching 6 months 1 per week about 30minutes for Free as a give back to the community, and (2) PI Planning Scrum of Scrum (SoS) questions to see how the teams are progressing and how to chart it on a wiki page in this virtual world.

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