From our homes, UK. The Scrum Mastery Challenge continues!! Task 4 was all about starting an online conversation. Our global contestants were scored by which conversation added the greatest CONTRIBUTION. Listen on to hear how they got on!In you would like to check out the online conversations our contestants started, have a look here...Team USA - https://twitter.com/AgileFaye/status/1274341425602105347Greg - https://t.co/r2oi18yC7b?amp=1Stefan - https://www.linkedin.com/posts/stefan-wertheimer_learning-learningneverstops-retrospective-activity-6681453302388936704-4WSdAnshul - https://medium.com/serious-scrum/scrum-values-are-life-values-902e6250501Vikas - https://medium.com/serious-scrum/weekly-status-reports-may-not-create-transparency-cef6fae5cd4cMike - https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6674753907975102464/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

From our homes, UK. As lockdown continues so does the Scrum Mastery Challenge! In this task, our global contestants were charged with describing their most valuable "thing". Some interesting stories emerged from some "almost" everyday objects! Geoff & Paul debrief how the word "value" is highly subjective, multi-dimensional and how "pain" can be a good indicator of what to do next. Enjoy! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

From Our Homes, UK. Still in lockdown - still not allowed in a pub. And now I think that BOREDOM has really set in. Has the novelty factor of working remotely now worn off? Geoff & Paul discuss the drop in energy levels they have noticed from working remotely in recent days and weeks. And this led onto a discussion about how we can guarantee that we feel SAFE when working from home? An interesting thread emerges... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

From our homes, UK. The Scrum Mastery Challenge: LOCKDOWN continues! In this episode, the contestants were tasked with telling a 60-second story, inspired by this image: With points being awarded for the most engaging stories. Geoff & Paul discuss the submissions and also share some thoughts on what they are looking for in a good stories, and what good storytelling looks like too! Enjoy! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

From our homes, UK. In this episode, Geoff & Paul debrief the first of the ScrumMastery Challenge: LOCKDOWN tasks. The global contestants were asked to record a 60 second video introducing themself to a new team. In the debrief, Geoff & Paul extract both positives and negatives from the submissions and also give some thoughts of their own on what makes a good introduction.You can see a full description of the task here! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

From our homes, UK. Geoff & Paul share an evening drink after a warm spell of UK weather to discuss the subjects of FLOW and FEEDBACK. They reflect on how they changed over time with regards to giving and receiving feedback, and also share some theory on feedback and some tips on how to improve on feedback for yourself! Enjoy!Have you seen our new online trailer? Please give us a LIKE and why not share the pubcast with one of your agile colleagues today!!  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

From our homes, UK. Geoff & Paul reflect on their online advanced scrum master training held this week, any some of the interesting questions they tackled during the class. We spend a lot of time convincing the organisation about self-organisation, but how do you convince the team themselves? Also, what emotions are in play for a team? And what fears both Geoff & Paul had to confront as a novice trainers and coaches.Check out the new pubcast trailer here:https://youtu.be/a5Orj4QllKIPlease LIKE the video and add a comment to let us know what you think!!  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

From our homes, UK. Geoff & Paul were invited to speak at the first remote Lean Agile Brighton Meetup event, held on 6 May 2020. Geoff & Paul took a number of questions from the live audience such as: What does a remote ScrumMaster look like in the current lockdown? How can leadership create psychological safety at this time? And how has the life of a trainer and coach changed during lockdown? We hope you enjoy the episode!  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

From our homes, UK. Still in lockdown! In this episode, we discuss a question from one of our listeners about how we have been adapting sprint meetings during this lockdown period. We also get onto to the subject of WEREWOLVES! A game we played at The Social Distance Inn last week. It seems that a very simple game has a lot of agile learnings within it! Enjoy! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

From Cheltenham, BOA (UK), Madison, Milwaukee (USA). In this special episode, Geoff & Paul recorded a fun episode with Jeff Bubolz and Jeff Maleski of the The Agile Wire podcast.We talk about virtual icebreakers to use in online training courses, some norms about teaching online and some interested moral questions about online tranings too.All in all a very enjoyable episode to record. We hope you like it!  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.