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 Biz Empath".  Melissa is in book Volume 21 of the “Change Series Insights Into Self Empowerment”, with her section “The Biggest Obstacle We'll Ever Overcome”. Melissa's profile https://www.linkedin.com/in/melissasoconnell/ Melissa O'Connell's company website: https://creativegirlhelpingtheworld.com/  The Thursday Night show will start at 8pm EST with the podcast version to follow up at 9pm EST.  Please stay tune for more interviews with agile people and change agents. Please reach out if you want to be on the show.  Happy Scrumming, Please don't forget to sign up for out weekly mailing list with its freebees. Social Media: - search 5amMesterScrum or #5amMesterScrum  and you should find us and if not please let us know LinkedIn, Youtube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok     Podcasts: (search 5amMesterScrum)

#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 Sharing. 5am Mester Scrum 5am Mester Scrum Lightning Talk 1,193 went live on Youtube, LinkedIn and Facebook 4R (Requirements, Reviews, Retros, Roles) Thursday 5/30/2024 from Philadelphia, PA  Happy Scrumming, Please Don't forget to sign up to our 5amMesterScrum newsletter for freebies.  Which gets you free access to the Slack group, if you would like to share with or learning from a group of agile people! Watch the video in our YouTube Library as well. Social Media: - search 5amMesterScrum or #5amMesterScrum  and you should find us and if not please let us know LinkedIn, Youtube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok     Podcasts: (search 5amMesterScrum)

#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 maybe we will find a buried  treasure in the cookie. 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 1,192 went live on Youtube, LinkedIn and Facebook Fun Friday 5/24/2024 from Philadelphia, PA  Happy Scrumming, Please Don't forget to sign up to our 5amMesterScrum newsletter for freebies.  Definitely a free copy of Change Volume 20 in PDF form and to see who has or will be interviewed next https://5ammesterscrum.com/free-the-change-volume-20-pdf-book-copy-for-joining-our-weekly-newsletter/   Watch the video in our YouTube Library as well. Social Media: - search 5amMesterScrum or #5amMesterScrum  and you should find us and if not please let us know LinkedIn, Youtube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok     Podcasts: (search 5amMesterScrum)

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 Low Rate Initial Production Specification one engineer at a time that can be used along our career journey's as Business Analysts. Greg's solution is about Breaking “No’s” into Smaller “Yes’s” with three self-applied concepts: Turning No’s into smaller easy Yes’s, Saying Yes to Our Own Growth and Transforming Our Own Mindset with small Yes’s to achieve bigger goals. Turning No’s into small Yes’s will open doors for years to come.   Please Don't forget to sign up to our 5amMesterScrum newsletter for freebies. Such as a pdf copy of the book. https://5ammesterscrum.com/free-the-change-volume-20-pdf-book-copy-for-joining-our-weekly-newsletter/ And free access to the Slack group, if you would like to share with or learning from a group of agile people!

#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 with an R.  Today's I'm sharing changes to the show content and slack channels after doing a little retro on myself. 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 1,1919 went live on Youtube, LinkedIn and Facebook 4R (Requirements, Reviews, Retros, Roles) Thursday 5/16/2024 from Philadelphia, PA  Happy Scrumming, Please Don't forget to sign up to our 5amMesterScrum newsletter for freebies.  Which gets you free access to the Slack group, if you would like to share with or learning from a group of agile people! Watch the video in our YouTube Library as well. Social Media: - search 5amMesterScrum or #5amMesterScrum  and you should find us and if not please let us know LinkedIn, Youtube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok     Podcasts: (search 5amMesterScrum)

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. Thoughts: - Are Agile Roles Changing? - Businesses Looking for Something Different? - The Pie shape vs. T Shape background - Points made in the Reports https://businessagility.institute/learn/skills-in-the-new-world-of-work/750 Co-Hosted by: William Strydom, Integral Agilist, Professional Coach and Leadership Developer His LinkedIn profile can be found here if you would like to reach out to him: https://www.linkedin.com/in/williamstrydom/   Our meetup group meets every 3rd Wednesday of the month.  We are always happy to help Agile and Business Folks share and especially Change agents. You can find us here: https://www.meetup.com/5ammesterscrum-agile-and-scrum-coaching-meetup-group/

#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 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 1,190 went live on Youtube, LinkedIn and Facebook We Team & HR Wednesday 5/15/2024 from Philadelphia, PA  Happy Scrumming, Please Don't forget to sign up to our 5amMesterScrum newsletter for freebies  Watch the video in our YouTube Library Social Media: - search 5amMesterScrum or #5amMesterScrum  and you should find us and if not please let us know LinkedIn, Youtube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok     Podcasts: (search 5amMesterScrum)

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 others.  William and I met through Marsha Acker and her cohort activities towards earning IC Agile’s Expert in Agile Coaching program William's profile https://www.linkedin.com/in/williamstrydom/ Reference report: https://businessagility.institute/learn/skills-in-the-new-world-of-work/750/  The Thursday Night show will start at 8pm EST with the podcast version to follow up at 9pm EST.  Please stay tune for more interviews with agile people and change agents. Please reach out if you want to be on the show.  Happy Scrumming, Please don't forget to sign up for out weekly mailing list with its freebees. Social Media: - search 5amMesterScrum or #5amMesterScrum  and you should find us and if not please let us know LinkedIn, Youtube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok     Podcasts: (search 5amMesterScrum)

#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 what should we do?   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 1,189 went live on Youtube, LinkedIn and Facebook 3R (Requirements, Reviews, Retros) Thursday 5/9/2024 from Philadelphia, PA  Happy Scrumming,   Please Don't forget to sign up to our 5amMesterScrum newsletter for freebies  50% off on the webinar if you type "newsletter" in the discount field.  Purchase on shopify: https://5ammesterscrum.myshopify.com/products/find-your-treasure-goals-with-personal-goal-setting-okrs-webinar/    Watch the video in our YouTube Library as well. Social Media: - search 5amMesterScrum or #5amMesterScrum  and you should find us and if not please let us know LinkedIn, Youtube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok     Podcasts: (search 5amMesterScrum)

#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 creative work and then there was manager time.  I wanted to share a twist to the idea s it might relate to Scrum with "maker aka Dev" time vs. "Team or Group" Time vs "Scope or Backlog manager" time. 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 1,188 went live on Youtube, LinkedIn and Facebook We Team & HR Wednesday 5/8/2024 from Philadelphia, PA  Happy Scrumming, Please Don't forget to sign up to our 5amMesterScrum newsletter for freebies  Please Don't forget to sign up to our 5amMesterScrum newsletter for freebies  50% off on the webinar if you type "newsletter" in the discount field.  Purchase on shopify: https://5ammesterscrum.myshopify.com/products/find-your-treasure-goals-with-personal-goal-setting-okrs-webinar/  Watch the video in our YouTube Library show reference The Game with Alex Hormozi Podcast Ep708 Creating Conditions for Success https://open.spotify.com/episode/0TpzHYY3DSSaQQ0JLrxCf4 Social Media: - search 5amMesterScrum or #5amMesterScrum  and you should find us and if not please let us know LinkedIn, Youtube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok     Podcasts: (search 5amMesterScrum)

#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 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 1,187 went live on Youtube, LinkedIn and Facebook 2-4-1 10X Tuesday 5/7/2024 from Philadelphia, PA  Happy Scrumming, Please Don't forget to sign up to our 5amMesterScrum newsletter for freebies  50% off on the webinar if you type "newsletter" in the discount field.  Purchase on shopify: https://5ammesterscrum.myshopify.com/products/find-your-treasure-goals-with-personal-goal-setting-okrs-webinar/ Watch the video in our YouTube Library Social Media: - search 5amMesterScrum or #5amMesterScrum  and you should find us and if not please let us know LinkedIn, Youtube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok     Podcasts: (search 5amMesterScrum)

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 and mortgage origination and now Chief Communications Officer for Championship Leadership. Tanya's profile https://www.linkedin.com/in/tanya-boyd-pmp-project-personality/ Link for The Champion Leader on Amazon https://amzn.to/4aIeJaw Christopher D. Connors  LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisdconnors/ The Thursday Night show will start at 8pm EST with the podcast version to follow up at 9pm EST.  Please stay tune for more interviews with agile people and change agents. Please reach out if you want to be on the show.  Happy Scrumming, Please don't forget to sign up for out weekly mailing list with its freebees. Social Media: - search 5amMesterScrum or #5amMesterScrum  and you should find us and if not please let us know LinkedIn, Youtube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok     Podcasts: (search 5amMesterScrum)

#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. 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 1,186 went live on Youtube, LinkedIn and Facebook 2-4-1 10X Tuesday 4/30/2024 from Philadelphia, PA  Happy Scrumming, Please Don't forget to sign up to our 5amMesterScrum newsletter for freebies  Watch the video in our YouTube Library Social Media: - search 5amMesterScrum or #5amMesterScrum  and you should find us and if not please let us know LinkedIn, Youtube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok     Podcasts: (search 5amMesterScrum)

#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 Keep on Sharing. 5am Mester Scrum 5am Mester Scrum Lightning Talk 1,185 went live on Youtube, LinkedIn and Facebook Metric Monday 4/29/2023 from Philadelphia, PA  Happy Scrumming, Please Don't forget to sign up to our 5amMesterScrum newsletter for freebies.  Watch the video in our YouTube Library as well. Social Media: - search 5amMesterScrum or #5amMesterScrum  and you should find us and if not please let us know LinkedIn, Youtube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok     Podcasts: (search 5amMesterScrum)

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 process they are the first company to refinance payday loans by converting them into revolving lines of credit and having the customer pay back the loan at a fraction of the cost of the original loan. And we will tie it back to our own journey. https://www.linkedin.com/in/samara-andrieux-a58484211/ https://www.fundshine.com/ The Thursday Night show will start at 8pm EST with the podcast version to follow up at 9pm EST.  Please stay tune for more interviews with agile people and change agents. Please reach out if you want to be on the show.  Happy Scrumming, Please don't forget to sign up for out weekly mailing list with its freebees. Social Media: - search 5amMesterScrum or #5amMesterScrum  and you should find us and if not please let us know LinkedIn, Youtube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok     Podcasts: (search 5amMesterScrum)

#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 5amMesterScrum.  Please send me your topics.   You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. 5am Mester Scrum 5am Mester Scrum Lightning Talk 1,184 went live on Youtube, LinkedIn and Facebook 3R (Requirements, Reviews, Retros) Thursday 4/25/2024 from Philadelphia, PA  Happy Scrumming, Please Don't forget to sign up to our 5amMesterScrum newsletter for freebies.  Watch the video in our YouTube Library as well. Social Media: - search 5amMesterScrum or #5amMesterScrum  and you should find us and if not please let us know LinkedIn, Youtube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok     Podcasts: (search 5amMesterScrum)

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 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/ Happy Scrumming, Please Don't forget to sign up to our 5amMesterScrum newsletter for freebies  Watch the video in our YouTube Library Social Media: - search 5amMesterScrum or #5amMesterScrum  and you should find us and if not please let us know LinkedIn, Youtube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok     Podcasts: (search 5amMesterScrum)

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/ Happy Scrumming, Please Don't forget to sign up to our 5amMesterScrum newsletter for freebies  Watch the video in our YouTube Library Social Media: - search 5amMesterScrum or #5amMesterScrum  and you should find us and if not please let us know LinkedIn, Youtube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok     Podcasts: (search 5amMesterScrum)

#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 reach around the world.  Reach out and join us. 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 1,183 went live on Youtube, LinkedIn and Facebook 2-4-1 10X Tuesday 4/23/2024 from Philadelphia, PA  Happy Scrumming, Please Don't forget to sign up to our 5amMesterScrum newsletter for freebies  Watch the video in our YouTube Library Social Media: - search 5amMesterScrum or #5amMesterScrum  and you should find us and if not please let us know LinkedIn, Youtube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok     Podcasts: (search 5amMesterScrum)

#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.  Please send me your topics.   You are are doing Great Please Keep on Sharing. 5am Mester Scrum 5am Mester Scrum Lightning Talk 1,182 went live on Youtube, LinkedIn and Facebook Fun Friday 4/19/2024 from Philadelphia, PA  Happy Scrumming, Please Don't forget to sign up to our 5amMesterScrum newsletter for freebies.  Definitely a free copy of Change Volume 20 in PDF form and to see who has or will be interviewed next Watch the video in our YouTube Library as well. Social Media: - search 5amMesterScrum or #5amMesterScrum  and you should find us and if not please let us know LinkedIn, Youtube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok     Podcasts: (search 5amMesterScrum)