KatAnu Connect Podcast
Kate Megaw, Ryan Smith & Anu Smalley host a variety of discussions on Leadership & Agility!
KatAnu Connect Podcast
Latest Episodes
The Sound of Silence: Why Your Meetings Go Quiet and What to Do About It
You schedule the meeting, you ask for input, and the room goes quiet. Then the real conversation happens in the hallway afterward. Kate Megaw and Ryan Smith dig into why people stay silent, and what facilitators can actually do about it. Silenc...
Scrum Master or Change Agent? Has the Role Outgrown Its Name?
The Scrum Master role has quietly evolved, and the industry has not caught up. Kate Megaw and Ryan Smith unpack how the role calcified into a person who runs the events and works through a checklist, when the real job was always to be a change ...
Velocity Is Vanity, Outcomes Are Reality
Velocity feels like proof. Fifty story points done, a bigger number than last sprint, a box checked. But velocity measures how busy a team is, not whether anything valuable reached the customer. Kate Megaw and Ryan Smith take ...
Big A, Little a: Making agility Part of Your Company's DNA
There is “Big A” Agility, the frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, and SAFe, and there is “little a” agility, the plain human ability to change direction when the world shifts under your feet. Kate Megaw and Ryan Smith make the case that the second o...
Communication: Your Anchor in an Unstable World
Communication used to be filed away as a soft skill. Kate Megaw and Ryan Smith make the case that it has become central to everything we do. In a VUCA environment that is volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous, communication is...