Category: Agile

Why Do We Assume Organisations Need To See Everything?
Posted in Business Management Business Strategy Consulting Future of Work

Why Do We Assume Organisations Need To See Everything?

Modern organisations are built around visibility. We monitor. We analyse. We track. We measure. We justify these activities as necessary… read more Why Do We Assume Organisations Need To See Everything?

WHY AM I EXPECTED TO TRUST EVERYONE
Posted in Business Strategy Consulting Future of Work Organisational Design

Why Am I Expected to Trust Everyone?

Every person knows this feeling. You book a holiday. You open a bank account. You use a mobile app. You… read more Why Am I Expected to Trust Everyone?

Are Human Organisations and AI Systems Becoming the Next Management Divide
Posted in Future of Work

The Next Management Divide

The End of Agile as We Know It: Are Human Organisations and AI Systems Becoming the Next Management Divide? For… read more The Next Management Divide

Proposed 401 Connection Upgrade to the Ambassador Bridge in Windsor Ontario 2025
Posted in Future of Work

Proposed 401 Connection Upgrade to the Ambassador Bridge

I come across a lot of content that I never publish because it never really becomes relevant but I found… read more Proposed 401 Connection Upgrade to the Ambassador Bridge

All me social app
Posted in Agile All me app Innovation

All me social app kickstarter crowdfunding

All me is a new social interaction application. All me is very different from existing social media apps because it supports… read more All me social app kickstarter crowdfunding

Posted in Agile Transformation Customer Agility Future of Work Thought Leader and Influencer

Top Global Lean Agile Thought Leaders and Influencers 2025

On the 10th of January Karl A L Smith was named in the Top Global Lean/ Agile Thought Leaders and… read more Top Global Lean Agile Thought Leaders and Influencers 2025

Posted in Agile Transformation Business Agility

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… read more NatWest Agile Transformation History

Being Agile
Posted in Agile

Being Agile

To really understand Agile we needs to understand where it came from. Agile Problem Statements – what were the issues… read more Being Agile

Story Points are an Estimation of Complexity not of Time
Posted in Agile Agile Transformation

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… read more Story Points are an Estimation of Complexity not Time

Agility in business Karl A L Smith talks to Engati CX
Posted in Agile Business Agility Ways of Working

Agility in business Karl A L Smith talks to Engati CX

Karl A L Smith Co-Founder of Agile World talks about what Is an Agile Organization and shares some examples of… read more Agility in business Karl A L Smith talks to Engati CX

Agile Metrics are a View
Posted in Agile Transformation Agile World

Agile Metrics are a Data View

Agile Metrics are a data view from several metrics at once in order to establish validated information from several aspects… read more Agile Metrics are a Data View

Agile does not Scale
Posted in Agile Agile Transformation Agile World Business Agility Future of Work

Agile does not Scale it Consumes

Agile does not Scale, first let’s be clear what scaling means, before I’m tarred and feathered. Some Definitions of Scaling… read more Agile does not Scale it Consumes

Agile does not reduce Headcount image man falling down from a hole of light
Posted in Agile Agile Transformation Business Agility DevOps Enterprise DevOps Future of Work Organizational Agility Scaled DevOps

Agile does not Reduce Headcount

Agile Transformation and Change Agile does not Reduce Headcount no matter who tells you that, this view sets the scene… read more Agile does not Reduce Headcount

Agile World vs Organizational Reality or Organizational Dream
Posted in Agile World Future of Work Karl Smith New Ways of Working Ways of Working

An Agile World is Possible in Enterprises

An Agile World is Possible in Reality based and Dream based Enterprises as its not a framework but a cadence…. read more An Agile World is Possible in Enterprises

Dyslexia SuperPowers by Karl Smith, Sabrina C E Bruce and Scott Seivwright
Posted in Agile Agile World Press Release Servant Leadership

a short guide to Dyslexia SuperPowers

Dyslexia SuperPowers new book due December 2021. Although I’m exhausted from all the different things I have been working on… read more a short guide to Dyslexia SuperPowers

Agile World Sabrina C E Bruce and Karl Smith Founders
Posted in Agile Agile World

Agile World

Agile World with our hosts Sabrina C E Bruce and Karl Smith talk with Dhanusha Gokhool and Harold Campbell about… read more Agile World

Agile20Reflect Festival Statistics
Posted in Agile Agile20Reflect Festival

Agile20Reflect Festival Archive

Regional Agile20Reflect Festival Hub Pages and Events Per Hub Festival Calendar The Festival can be viewed in a number of… read more Agile20Reflect Festival Archive

Scaled Organizational Agility is the Future of Work
Posted in Agile Transformation Business Transformation Organizational Agility

Scaled Organizational Agility is the Future of Work in Agile20Reflect Festival

New Ways of Working Programmes are now quite common in major organisations, this talk and conversation is intended to offer… read more Scaled Organizational Agility is the Future of Work in Agile20Reflect Festival

Agile20Reflect Festival Principle 4
Posted in Agile Agile Transformation Agile20Reflect Festival Business Agility Future of Work

A Scottish Revolution to Re Energise Agile

Regardless of the state of the world or futility that people may feel at this time something tremendous has been… read more A Scottish Revolution to Re Energise Agile

A short guide to Agile Transformation
Posted in Agile Agile Transformation Business Management Future of Work

Agile Transformation

The book about Agile Transformation is not theories but real consultancy refined by the experience of working in enterprises with… read more Agile Transformation

Image of a light bulb full of words like Ideas, Risk, Team with a healing of New Ways of Working
Posted in Business Agility Future of Work New Ways of Working

New Ways of Working the Human Component

The Agile20Reflect Festival will have created a great focus on the past, present and future of Agile in Feb 2021…. read more New Ways of Working the Human Component

Agile UX Organisational Design Business Agility
Posted in Agile Business Agility Future of Work User Experience (UX) Ways of Working

Organisational Design for Business Agility and Agile Transformation

Some things to understand before getting into the main article. Agile is based on some very human concepts around how… read more Organisational Design for Business Agility and Agile Transformation

Human Experience
Posted in Agile Agile Transformation Book by Karl Smith Customer experience User Experience (UX) Ways of Working

Designing for Human Experience Paperback on Amazon

This book about what I have done for a living since 1989 in Designing for Human Experience. Here have put… read more Designing for Human Experience Paperback on Amazon

Karl Smith Top 100 Global Thought Leaders and Influencers to Follow in 2020
Posted in Agile Human Centred Design (HCD) Servant Leadership Thought Leader and Influencer User Experience (UX)

Top 100 Thought Leaders and Influencers to follow in 2020

Karl Smith named in the The Awards Magazine, Top 100 Global Thought Leaders and Influencers to Follow in 2020. Well let’s… read more Top 100 Thought Leaders and Influencers to follow in 2020