#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,198 Live - One Review or Two (4R Thursdays) - Today's topics: (1) Lots of teams think all they should do is a story review with the PO or Stakeholder and then they don't need to do a Sprint Review. Its redundant! Well there are three sets of stakeholders that should be a part of any review besides the PO: Other stak…

#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,197 Live -Scrum Framework Built to Optimize both Individual and Team team Time (We Team & HR Wednesdays) - Today's topics: (1) Finding that balance between team and individual time and Scrum tries to frame that balance Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing …

#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,196 Live - Being Thankful During Your Job Search (2-4-1 10X Tuesdays) - Today's topics: (1) Just reflecting on all the competition out there for jobs or career promotions and I realized that a practice of being Thankful might go a long way. Practicing Thankfulness for all the applications, the new connections and ev…

Thursday Night Interview Program with Viktoriia Kondratova Business Analyst and World Traveler from the USA to Ukraine and back again to the USA Interview No. 23. Viktoriia Kondratova business Analyst and ServiceNow experience BA successfully combines technical knowledge & ability to quickly grasp the core of business challenges organizations are f…

#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,195 Live -Onboarding New People with pre setups and if Onboarding is not documented then make it a part of their tasks during onboarding (We Team & HR Wednesdays) - Today's topics: (1) So many companies waste time not getting new hires up to speed with a good onboarding system. I would like to share documentation an…

#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,194 Live - Your Growth Journey Let Look at this Snake Skin (2-4-1 10X Tuesdays) - Today's topics: (1) Found this snake skin while getting my miles per day in. It made me think about your journey on your career path. Growing to a point, feeling restricted in your growth, finally deciding it was time to break through,…

Big Dreams Made From Smaller Pieces, Turning No's into Yes's to Help along our Career Journey, Based on Greg Mester's new co-Authored Book "The Change: Insight's Into Self Empowerment" Sharing the audio portion of my seminar share at the Zip-inar online meeting held on May 29, 2024. The presentation seems to adjust little by little every time I giv…

Thursday Night Interview Program with Melissa O'Connell. Talking empathy and life coaching, Interview No. 22. Melissa O'Connell CEO and Founder. She Helps Empathic & Highly Sensitive Professional Women stay Positive, Productive & Profitable in Work & Life. Melissa is a Certified Life Coach, CEO/Founder of “Creative Girl Helping the World” and "The …

#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,193 Live - Getting Back into the Groove and Returning from Vacation (4R Thursdays) - Today's topics: (1) I think there might be a 5th R - recovery? Getting back into the groove after a vacation. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sha…

#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,192 Live - Fun Pirate Friday and Fortune Cookie (Fun Friday) - Today's topics: (1) I was enjoying watching "One Piece" on Netflix with my kids and the main character was creating his pirate flag wearing his straw hat. I figured we have done mascots for teams so why not pirate flags? and (2) Fortune Cookie Friday may…

My recording from the IIBA Philadelphia May Chapter Meeting: taken from my co-Authored The Change Book presentation titled Big Dreams Made From Smaller Pieces, Turning No's into Yes's to Help along our Career Journey Greg brings stories about bringing people to work together, certification journeys, saying Yes to Yourself, assembling the F/A-18E/F …

#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,191 Live - New 4 R Thursdays - I added Roles to the topic area (4R Thursdays) - Today's topics: (1) So I was cleaning up the 5amMesterScrum slack group channel selection and it dawned on me that I should make room for role specific discussion and Thursday's made the most since Thursday is usual an R and roles starts…

Topic: Conversations about the Shifts in Agile Space and the Business Agility Institute/Scrum Alliance Skills In The New World Of Work Report This will be a dialog discussion between William Strydom, Integral Agilist, Professional Coach and Leadership Developer and Greg Mester co-Author of The Change Book Vol 20 and everyone in the meetup group. Th…

#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,190 Live - Let the Team choose the Measure Unit (We Team & HR Wednesdays) - Today's topics: (1) We are in the process of debating measuring velocity with points or hours. If something has to be measured to help the team let the team make the call and not the manager scrum master or agile coach when possible. Please …

Thursday Night Interview Program with William Strydom. Talking Shifts in Agile Space, Interview No. 21. William Strydom, Integral Agilist, Professional Coach and Leadership Developer. An Agilist who is currently spreading the joy of modern ways of working and agility across teams, departments and organizations. He believes in evoking excellence in …

#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,189 Live - Oh No! Retro Got Cancelled! What do we Do? (3R Thursdays) - Today's topics: (1) So many times I hear scrum masters and agile coaches panic because the Retro got Cancelled. This happens more often than one might know. Things come up such as production issues, all-hands meetings or just people are sick. So …

#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,188 Live - Maker, Team and Scope Manager Time (We Team & HR Wednesdays) - Today's topics: (1) I was listening to Alex Hormozi's podcast The Game and he was talking about conditions for success as a person or a team. He shared the ideas "maker" and "manager" time. How the maker time was quite dedicated time to creati…

#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,187 Live - How are Those Goals? Using OKRs to Help with Frustration (2-4-1 10X Tuesdays) - Today's topics: (1) Just revisiting and preparing for Saturday's Webinar on Goal Setting with OKRs. At the last webinar people started right away on their goals and some rethought their goals on the why front. Please like and …

Thursday Night Interview Program with Tanya Boyd. We'll be introducing Christopher Connor's new book "The Champion Leader", Interview No. 20. Tanya Boyd, PMP and PMI-ACP Creative Project Manager. 20+ years on cross-functional teams in the industries of healthcare, information technology, government services, disaster recovery, financial services an…

#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,186 Live - Letting Go of My EGO (2-4-1 10X Tuesdays) - Today's topics: (1) Egos have their Good and Bad side as some might say but in reality ego is just bad. It either just holds you back in a nice unchanging space or make you envious of others or even feel like something was stolen from you or you are just better …

#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,185 Live - Adjusting Metric as We Go (Metric Monday) - Today's topics: (1) There are a million metrics we can use but the are all not need and sometimes we have to adjust our metric process of collection. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please K…

Thursday Night Interview Program with Samara Andrieux. We'll be discussing Samara's her mission today of getting millions of hard-working people out of the predatory payday lending cycle in Interview No. 19. Samara Andrieux, Epidemiologist, Entrepreneur and Co-Founder of Fundshine. And we are going learn from her interesting journey and her mission…

#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,184 Live - 1 - 2 Punch Sprint Review (3R Thursdays) - Today's topics: (1) I have Sprint Review on my mind and I wanted to share the concept of a 1 -2 Punch Sprint. Here the story is reviewed with a PO or single stakeholder during the sprint and then a group at Sprint Review. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMe…

Podcast version from today's Live at 8am EST discussion at the Product Owner Summit 2024. Professional Product Owner Career. What Might That Look Like? I did put on a tie to look the professional part. I did not clip out the pre-topic time and left it in for some fun. Checkout the many videos at the Summit is producing. Some Great Topics. My topic …

Today I will be Live at 8am EST as a part of the Product Owner Summit 2024. Rather than do a show today, I think it would be better to checkout the many video the Summit is producing. Some Great Topics. My topic is the Professional Product Owner. It is live so I will be as surprised as you all see you there youtube @productownersummit or their webs…

#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,183 Live - Grow Career by Sharing (2-4-1 10X Tuesdays) - Today's topics: (1) People always ask me how do I become a scrum master, product owner, agile coach or whatever skill they want to work in. My response is share your skills in public. the 5amMesterScrum suite of options are available: Slack channel, blog submi…

#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,182 Live - Watching a Local Kids Team Play and Work Together and Fortune Cookie (Fun Friday) - Today's topics: (1) Sometime we over do what it means to be a team. Watching Kids play together can remind you that it can be fun as well and (2) Fortune Cookie Friday. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. P…

Thursday Night Interview Program with Dr. Karen Kramer, Author, Business Women, Coach. We'll be discussing Helping People to take back their Life & Live it on Purpose Dr. Karen Kramer helps women who have gone through a major event that has led them to question "Who am I?" and "What do I want?" to take back their life and live it by their design. D…

#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,181 Live - Sharing Quasi Roadmap at Reviews don't loose the Opportunity (3R Thursdays) - Today's topics: (1) So many teams miss out on the opportunity to share quasi Roadmaps at Sprint Reviews. The sad part it is a chance to get feed back from customers on what is up next for the team and look for an priority change…

5amMesterScrum Meetup session Talking Questions recorded on 4/17/2024 at 6pm EST Topic: Conversations on the Importance of Asking Questions This will be a dialog discussion between Amit Kumar, Team Manager & Cybersecurity Adjunct Professor and Greg Mester co-Author of The Change Book Vol 20 and everyone in the meetup group. Thoughts: - Why should w…

#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,180 Live - HR & PO Offshore Fail (We Team & HR Wednesdays) - Today's topics: (1) So on tax day I was able to witness and combination of HR and Product Owner Offshore Failure. The HW Department help create an Offshore support structure and the Product Owner promoted it to their customers, but when the system crashed …

#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,179 Live - Bad Habits Creep into Public Domain (2-4-1 10X Tuesdays) - Today's topics: (1) Watch out for the bad habit of minimizing issues, because those bad habits can loose you customers. You will say what you practice sooner or later. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics.…

#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,178 Live - Group Gaming Experiment Results are In and Fortune Cookie (Fun Friday) - Today's topics: (1) The results from my gaming experiment with my students and (2) Fortune Cookie Friday. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing.…

Thursday Night Interview Program with Duane Hill, Jr. We'll be discussing Duane's life as a scrum master, coach, and the proud creator of ScrumBuddies Coaching in Interview No. 17. Duane’s goal is to help emerging scrum masters grab their next role. Duane Hill, Jr. Former educator turned Scrum Master turned Scrum Master Coach. My goal is to create …

#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,177 Live - Communications Top Skill - use Sprint Review to develop that skill (3R Thursdays) - Today's topics: (1) Report on Skills in the New World of Work by Scrum Alliance and Business Agility Institute share that Communications is the highest sought after skill by employers. . Please like and subscribe and share…

#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,176 Live - Pretend You Know Nothing - Act as New Customer (2-4-1 10X Tuesdays) - Today's topics: (1) So many teams and creators assume for some reason the new customer knows the same things they do or understands the company process. My advice is that if your product is for a new customer, assume they know nothing a…

#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,175 Live - Group Gaming Experiment and Fortune Cookie (Fun Friday) - Today's topics: (1) Ever try the penny game for a throughput experiment for a team or class? Why not try it with a video or online game? and (2) Fortune Cookie Friday. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. …

Thursday Night Interview Program with Anton Skornyakov discussing his journey from Coach to Entrepreneur to Author in Interview No. 16 and we talk about his new book "The Art of Slicing Work: How to Navigate Unpredictable Projects". This is a part of our Thursday Night line up of interviews agile people, change agents and business people seeking Tr…

#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,174 Live - Small Reviews with focused Stakeholders (It is not about you!) (3R Thursdays) - Today's topics: (1) Having smaller reviews with just interested Stakeholder what a concept. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. 5am Me…

5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,173 Live - Selfish or Greedy No Code Reviews with Teammates (We Team & HR Wednesdays) - Today's topics: (1) Recalling an agile coffee pre 2020 and one coach said that no matter what the team did not could understand what their new teammate coded. Code reviews should not be bout quality but who easy is it for people t…

#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,172 Live - Meditate y Read a Free Book and Fortune Cookie (Fun Friday) - Today's topics: (1) On this fun day I wanted to encourage everyone to try some meditation and maybe read a book. In fact I'm offering free PDF versions of my volume of the Change Series. I realized as I listened to my interview with Angeline la…

Thursday Night Interview Program with Angeline Constantinou a Women’s Empowerment Partner and Mentor. We'll be discussing empowering women to step into their own power and identify their true purpose and calling in life. in Interview No. 15 and we talk about what she is up to and what is next for Angeline and her journey to get where she is Today!.…

#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,171 Live - 45 min Sprint Planning (3R Thursdays) - Today's topics: (1) I was surprised yesterday at a Sprint Planning Session when the PO did a Planning by Feature and we finished in 45 minutes. How did we get there? Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Gr…

#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,170 Live - Putting in the Work, Fear and Hate (2-4-1 10X Tuesdays) - Today's topics: (1) Putting in the Work can be very scary and people can hate on you for it. I share a podcase from Alex Hormozi with my 8th grade lass. We had an interesting chat on hate. Hating those who succeed. For me I'm more impressed than je…

Thursday Night Interview Program with Annie Mood Wellbeing Consultant talking Burnout and Work-Life Harmony in Interview No. 14 and we talk about what she is up to and what is next for Annie and her journey to get where she is Today!. This is a part of our Thursday Night line up of interviews agile people, change agents and business people seeking …

#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,169 Live - Know Thy Business Cycle and add it to the Why in the Requirement (3R Thursdays) - Today's topics: (1) There is a falsehood about dates, that they are not needed. I beg to differ. Knowing your business and customer cycles can be so important. And if a cycle is not well know it should be included in the why…

5amMesterScrum Agile and Scrum Sharing & Interactive Meetup Presenting Better Product Outcomes by Gary Cohen, Organizational Change Coach Topic: "Let's Be Real - How Our Planning, Status Meetings, and Product Roadmaps Habits are Holding us Back from Better Product Outcomes"? This will focus on common organizational habits that seem like best practi…

5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,168 Live - School Bus Late Again Team Dependencies (We Team & HR Wednesdays) - Today's topics: (1) It has now been a month straight of the school bus being 20 minutes late causing all kind of schedule issues. This is the same thing that occurs for team dependencies and missing dates. Please like and subscribe and sha…

#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,167 Live - In OKR's 90 days is a Year (2-4-1 10X Tuesdays) - Today's topics: (1) I was listening to Amy Porterfield and she was saying how Millionaires think in 90 days as their year. Which of course reminded me of Quarterly OKRs and the need to record OKRs that are not yearly based i.e. 10% growth but quarterly or …

#5amMesterScrum Lightning Talk 1,166 Live - Take a Mini Vacation and Fortune Cookie (Fun Friday) - Today's topics: (1) Highly recommend a mini vacation if it has been a while since a nice vacation and disconnect and (2) Fortune Cookie Friday. Please like and subscribe and share 5amMesterScrum. Please send me your topics. You are are doing Great Ple…