KatAnu Connect Podcast

Kate & Ryan discuss the perennial topic of the 5 stages of Team Formation:  Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing, and Adjourning

Kate & Ryan discuss Program vs Scrum Teams, how they differ and how they can work together in Scrum

Kate & Ryan discuss rollover work: issues that are not finished in one Sprint and "just rollover" to the next one and why this happens so teams can stop it from happening

Kate & Ryan discuss those roles you might find on your team that are outside of the typical Scrum Team roles and how we can develop empathy for them and integrate them more fully in the our Agile methodology

Kate & Ryan discuss how to make Retros more interesting, some do's & don'ts, and how best to think about them

Kate & Ryan chat with Anu Smalley, the President of the Capala Consulting Group, about the mindset shifts necessary for Leadership Agility 

Kate and Ryan discuss how to be Agile in a Waterfall environment and how that might not be as hard as we think

Emergent Work, or work not planned for but brought to the ScrumMaster after the Sprint has started, is a fact of life no matter how high functioning your Scrum Team is or how agile your organization is.  In this episode Kate & Ryan discuss strategies for dealing with things that just have to be added to your Sprint.

Kate and Ryan discuss the pitfalls of combining the Product Owner and ScrumMaster roles


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