Karl A L Smith interview with LeadersHum
Karl A L Smith Managing Partner of Agile World Inc. interview with LeadersHum about the three strands of his work experience, changing the paradigm, changing the context (of working environments) and experimenting. He highlights key characteristics of Leadership and Leaders and…
Leadership Agility with Bill Joiner and Ben Hutchinson
Sabrina C E Noto and Karl A L Smith are delighted to welcome Ben Hutchinson from JCurv and Bill Joiner from ChangeWise, Inc. on to Agile World to share their knowledge and insights on Leadership Agility. The need for Leadership…
Different Flavors of Agile with Saul Zarrate
Agile World is delighted to welcome Saul Zarrate on to Agile World to share his knowledge and insights on different flavours of agile. Guest Saul Zarrate – I am passionate about building up teams, working to the highest standards, possess…
Leading from the Middle with Gill Bennet
Sabrina C E Noto and Karl A L Smith are delighted to welcome Gill Bennet on to Agile World to share her knowledge and insights from her highly practical agile approach regarding being a Leader wherever you are. Guest Gill…
NatWest Agile Transformation History
Ways of Working Agile Transformation at NatWest (The Royal Bank of Scotland) It’s about time that someone wrote up the history of this Ways of Working Transformation since the accounts in circulation bare no resemblance to the facts. I should…
Agile World with Adrian Payne author of Agile Beyond IT
Sabrina C E Noto and Karl A L Smith talk with Adrian Payne a project professional from the 1980’s to to present day. Author of Agile Beyond IT, Adrian looks into case studies of agile use and points out the…
Agile Transformation at News UK
Agile World is delighted to welcome the Agile Transformation Team from News UK to highlight their recent and future work with JCURV. This is very much in the context of the State of Agile Culture Report supported by the Agile…
AI Organisational Design
AI Organisational Design Redefining How Modern Enterprises Operate AI Organisational Design is a modern approach to structuring enterprises around real-time insight, customer outcomes, and continuous value delivery. It places artificial intelligence at the core of how decisions are made and…
Being Agile
To really understand Agile we needs to understand where it came from. Agile Problem Statements – what were the issues that agile was created to solve? Alternative to document driven, heavyweight development processes Throwing work over the fence Work around…
Customer Experience in the 21st Century and Beyond
InfoBeans interview with Karl Smith about Customer Experience. From InfoBeans: In the podcast titled ‘Customer Experience in the 21st Century and Beyond, our guest Karl Smith speaks about why customer experience is so important and why it is important to…
Agile is not Dead from forthcoming book
This is fundamental to understand what Agile is, the benefits it delivers and how to implement it. Agile is fundamentally about moving to a trust relationship with staff and evolving past the industrial revolution practice of overseers for ignorant and unskilled workers.
Kanban and Flow Metrics with Daniel Vacanti on Agile World
Daniel Vacanti on Agile World has a great conversation with Sabrina C E Noto and Karl A L Smith on everything from closing the loop on customer journeys to drunk agile planning and drunk agile. With more information Actionable Agile…
Agile Sales with Joe Budzinski on Agile World
Our Agile World hosts Sabrina C E Noto and Karl A L Smith discusses how sales teams at the enterprise level are adopting agile practices, and using collaboration software to revolutionise structured feedback systems and drive profitability with Joe Budzinski….
State of Agile Culture Report with JCURV and the Agile Business Consortium
Agile World Hosts Sabrina C E Noto and Karl A L Smith meet with JCURV and the Agile Business Consortium to talk through the finding from the now released “State of Agile Culture Report ” report. Vikram Jain. Payal Jain,…
Agile World English Show with Michael Küsters
Today our Agile World co-hosts Sabrina C E Noto and Karl A L Smith talk with Michael Küsters about life before Agile and how to really fix the clients problems without creating new ones. A really interesting conversation with Michael…
Story Points are an Estimation of Complexity not Time
For those that know this about Story Points, none of this post will be surprise, but given the current crop of consultants talking about delivering capabilities and features using story points I think it’s time to restate this simple fact;…
Karl Smith Resignation from Huawei KOL Program
Effective from Saturday the 5th of March 2022 I resigned from the Huawei KOL Program, due to both China’s and Huawei lack of a statement on the war in the Ukraine and Russia’s targeting of civilians in their unjustifiable war….
2022 sorry I was busy in 2021
Hello, sorry I was away for most of 2021, although I published a few books, supported a global festival as CTO and co-founded a Public Charity, Agile World, I have somewhat neglected my blog. Well that’s about to change I’m…