#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,236 Live - New Hire On boarding includes Documentation Updates (We Team & HR Wednesdays) - Today's topics: (1) New Hires should help update existing documentation and even create documentation that may not have existed. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. 5am Mester Scrum 5am Mester Scrum Show 1,236 went live on Youtube, LinkedIn and Facebook We Team & HR...

#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,235 Live - Is Definition of Done (DoD) met once the work is in Production? I would argue No!   (4R Thursdays) - Today's topics: (1) Every Team's Definition of Done can be slightly different and many teams argue once in production DoD is met.  I would argue there might be more to the story. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. 5am Mester Scrum 5am Mester Scrum...

#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,234 Live - Organizations Rise and Fall, Are you Ready (2-4-1 10X Tuesdays) - Today's topics: (1) I keep seeing this ad on Youtube saying "Prices Rise and Fall" and all I did was thinks and so do organizations, projects and businesses.  My challenge are you ready and the end of the year is a perfect time to prepare.  Or at least better late than never. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You are doing Great Please...

#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,233 Live - The Great Debate, Adjust points while in the Sprint some say NEVER! and I say why not? (Metric Monday) - Today's topics: (1) The Great Debate on adjusting points during a sprint or once they are given. Is our goal to be better estimators or create more communication?  Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. 5am Mester Scrum 5am Mester Scrum Lightning Talk...

#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,232 Live - Go Workout and Prepare for Future Fun (Fun Friday) - Today's topics: (1) Today my coach wife gave me the nudge to workout on my day off and I was listening to Mastering Agility podcast where they mentioned those rich folks finding time to go to the gym and (2) it's Fortune Cookie Friday Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. 5am Mester Scrum 5am Mester Scrum...

#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,231 Live - Establish Team time for working and communicating - stronger as team vs. individual (We Team & HR Wednesdays) - Today's topics: (1) Reading Dan Martell's book buy back your time and I was thinking about applying it to a team.  By the way the stuff for individuals, leaders or future CEOs is pretty good.  Applying it as individuals on a team might be difficult, however, applying it as a team on whole might work. Please like and subscribe and share...

#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,230 Live - 10X by Sharing and Interacting with Others TV (2-4-1 10X Tuesdays) - Today's topics: (1) 10X your future response time by sharing with others by joining a group or mastermind or by teaching, coaching or mentoring.  Someone the other day asked why I mentor entrepreneurs as it is not for the money.  To be honest I learn and get energized from the people I mentor or meet with in a mastermind. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please...

#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,229 Live - Scrum Masters use Daily Scrum as a Tool in your Coaching toolbox  (4R Thursdays) - Today's topics: (1) Continuing on from yesterday's show on Daily Scrum but this time from the Scrum Master Role point of view.  And how we can use the daily scrum when we coach people. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. 5am Mester Scrum 5am Mester Scrum Lightning Talk 1,229...

#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,228 Live -DAily Scrum is a Chance for the Team of Individuals to pull their heads out of the Sand of Individual Work (We Team & HR Wednesdays) - Today's topics: (1) Daily Scrum is an opportunity every day for individuals to see how the team is doing.  We are a diverse mindset and not everyone spends time seeing how the team is doing via chat or email or smoke signals. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You...

#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,227 Live - Running at Max Capacity will prevent you from 10Xing (2-4-1 10X Tuesdays) - Today's topics: (1) Playing with the trains with my son, I realized that out train yard was so full that it took a while to change out cars.  It slowed enjoyment and preventing 10X value.  If you capacity is too full you can't switch up quickly. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. 5am...

#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,226 Live - Asking Permission to Coach and Allowing Leaders to do Their Job (We Team & HR Wednesdays) - Today's topics: (1) As an Agile Coach, Consultant, Leader, Program Manager, Project manager and Scrum Master I have always asked permission to join a team in their domain or asked their leader if it was ok to chat with teams before I did so.  This way I always let the leader do their job.  Well the same goes for team members because if we create a world...

#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,225 Live - Practice some AI to 10X your time and try not to Binge Watch TV (2-4-1 10X Tuesdays) - Today's topics: (1) I was thinking of what I have been doing lately to 10X and get to places faster and I saw this 28 day AI challenge that I'm looking to try and (2) Oak Island starts a new season tonight as we speak and I realize how much binge watching TV does not 10x ones time.  My advice is limit it to one night. Please like and subscribe and share...

#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,24 Live - Goals and Metrics Don't Always Get you What you Want & Veterans Offer (Metric Monday) - Today's topics: (1) Goals Don't always get you what you want and maybe the metrics are not in harmony? and (2) Veterans offer for the balance of 2024  for 5 veterans to get free coaching Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. 5am Mester Scrum 5am Mester Scrum Lightning...

I spoke on "The Art of Delivering IT Products" with Tech-Social 11/7/2024 at 11am EST with Gabriela Santander and Edgar Martinez to discover "The Art of Delivering IT Products" in our upcoming Tech-Social Master Class tailored for C-level executives and delivery managers. Dive deep into strategies, insights, and best practices. I want to thank Let Us Talk It! and Tech-Social for allowing me the change to engage and share. #5amMesterScrum where we did show in stead of our typical 4R...

#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,223 Live - Being Happy to 10X you day and double your returns (2-4-1 10X Tuesdays) - Today's topics: (1) This afternoon I had to pick up Jerry our dog co-host/entertainer from the pet hotel and the people there were just so happy.  It made me re-realize that just being happy especially with others grows in a good way. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. 5am Mester...

#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,222 Live - Is Agile Dead - No! But how we teach it could be (We Team & HR Wednesdays) - Today's topics: (1) On this we team Wednesday I would like to open up discuss on a common theme I see and get asked.  I even think it might be a part of our Panel discussion for ACP24. (Pakistan).  We need to customize our training for partial teams. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You are are doing Great Please Keep on...

Take 2 #5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,221 Live - He is Alive Take Two - Should I create Excuses? (2-4-1 10X Tuesdays) - Today's topics: (1) This afternoon's recording sound was terrible.  I did a few recordings and wanted to try again with a live connection.  I'm such an IT person testing in production. hehe  Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. 5am Mester Scrum 5am Mester Scrum Lightning Talk 1,221...

#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,221 Live - He is Alive - Should I create Excuses? (2-4-1 10X Tuesdays) - Today's topics: (1) Been almost two months since I last did a show!  Excuses galore.  But why am I back?  Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. 5am Mester Scrum 5am Mester Scrum Lightning Talk 1,221 went live on Youtube, LinkedIn and Facebook 2-4-1 10X Tuesday 10/29/2024 from Philadelphia, PA  Happy...

#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,220 Live - SPC and Scrum Metrics (Metric Monday) - Today's topics: (1) The other day I saw one of my connections get a Six Sigma belt and it reminded of the connection of Statistical Process Control SPC and metrics we use in scrum.  Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. 5am Mester Scrum 5am Mester Scrum Lightning Talk 1,220 went live on Youtube, LinkedIn and Facebook...

#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,219 Live - Designing Team Boards by Epic or by Person (We Team & HR Wednesdays) - Today's topics: (1) The endless debate on do we run a daily scrum by person or by epic or project.  It really comes down to how the work is done by the team. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. 5am Mester Scrum 5am Mester Scrum Show 1,219 went live on Youtube, LinkedIn and Facebook...

#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,218 Live - Scary Bears and Sharing with a Mastermind (2-4-1 10X Tuesdays) - Today's topics: (1) Just back from hiking in the mountains and there were lots of scary bears, but you know what was nice having people to talk things through with.  A mastermind is a great place to share fears and questions.  Sometimes we get answers and sometimes we answer the questions ourselves as soon as we ask them. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send...

Trying a Live show from the basement of our Philly Row Home. Sharing some Agile thoughts from building my train layout. The entire building process very agile mindset. Plus fortune cookie friday

#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,216 Live - Peeling Away at Epics as Your Release Pieces  (4R Thursdays) - Today's topics: (1) I wanted to share some optics that appear as you might peel away scope from an epic as you release parts or stories along the way.  Maybe a different way of looking at things. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. 5am Mester Scrum 5am Mester Scrum Lightning Talk 1,216 went...

#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,215 Live - Stirring Up Trouble on Planning Poker for a Monday (Metric Monday) - Today's topics: (1) Last week we talked averages better than single points.  Today I wanted to explored a controversial idea that planner poker is not always needed to establish points?  It might depend on how your team is operating? Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. 5am Mester...