ARCLight Agile

About ARCLight Agile

Kate Megaw, Ryan Smith & Anu Smalley host a variety of discussions on Leadership & Agility!

Publisher

Kate Megaw

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

29 Aug 2022

Latest episode

26 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

207 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   26 Oct 2026

   What Makes a Great Team? 10 Characteristics, Back to Basics

   Great teams don’t happen by accident. So what separates a great team from a group of people who happen to report to the same manager? Back to Basics turns to the team itself. Kate Megaw and Ryan Smith build a list of 10 characteristics of great teams, starting with people who are invested, not just showing up. With Gallup putting US engagement at 31%, they talk about why it keeps slipping: return-to-office crackdowns, a workforce that can work for anyone anywhere, and layoffs that come with “...

2. 

   19 Oct 2026

   Scrum Master Back to Basics: Forget the Title, Who Owns the Accountabilities?

   Back to Basics turns from frameworks to accountabilities, starting with the Scrum Master. Kate Megaw, Anu Smalley and Ryan Smith explain why the Scrum Guide’s switch from roles to accountabilities matters: if you do the work, you are the Scrum Master, whatever your badge says. Many org charts give the Scrum Master two lines, while the Scrum Guide gives it the longest list of the three. The hosts cover the four hats (coach, mentor, facilitator, trainer), plus the protector who says “not right ...

3. 

   12 Oct 2026

   XP, Lean and Scaling - Back to Basics: Scale a Mess, Get a Bigger Mess

   We have done Scrum. We have done Kanban. This week Kate Megaw, Anu Smalley and Ryan Smith take on everything else, starting from one question: did anything else survive the evolutionary process? Plenty did, depending on where in the world you work and what you build. The list runs from XP and Lean to Crystal, DSDM and Scrumban. Next comes DevOps, and why two week Sprints with six week deployments made it inevitable. Then XP, the software-only framework that gave everyone else user stories and...

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

2 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 53 / 100

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Quality

79

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

68

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