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#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 than others.

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#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.

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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. How can Fundshine help pay off a payday loan? Through Fundshine’s innovative proc...

#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.

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Podcast version from today's Live at 8am EST discussion at the  Product Owner Summit 2024. 

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 is the Professional Product Owner.  It is live so I will be as surprised as you a...

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 website and you can still buy a ticket https://productownersummit.org/

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#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 submissions, interviews, masterminds and meetups.  Think of it as a small venue with rea...

#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.

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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.  Dr. Karen is in book Volume 19 (the one before mine volume 20) of the “Change Se...

#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 changes that could be made before Sprint Planning. Plus it can be reused at Sprint Plannin...

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 we ask questions? - Encouraging Questions - The importance of Questions - How do 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 overnight no one was empowered to communicate nor may fix the problem offsho...

#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.

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#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.

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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 space for agile in school systems across the United States to increase buy-in with st...

#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. . 

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#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 and turn off what you already know.

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#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.

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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 Transformation.

Anton Skornyakov was born in Moscow, Russia before relocating to Germa...