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 Scaling technique is a method of placing respondents in continuation of gradual change in the pre-assigned values. All the scaling…
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 for failure. Unfortunately it’s a lie, best left to marketing materials and companies desperate for work. People who make the…
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. An Agile World is based upon a cadence that ties all activities together to create an operating rhythm whereas individual…
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 at the moment, and the two books published this year already, I’m working on one more a short guide to…
Agile an Unexpected Journey Published
Agile an Unexpected Journey Published This idea for this book Agile an Unexpected Journey was simple in 2020 I thought about how could I celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the signing of the Agile Manifesto in February 2021? Easy I…
Agile World
Agile World with our hosts Sabrina C E Bruce and Karl Smith talk with Dhanusha Gokhool and Harold Campbell about their Agile journeys and about their new meetup in Mauritius, Agile Mauritius https://www.meetup.com/agile-mauritius/ The Agile20Reflect Festival is in the past but…
a short guide to Human Stagnation
Following on from Karl Smith’s a short guide to Agile Transformation he plans to release another short guide book in 2022 called a short guide to Human Stagnation 1920 to 2020 100 Years of Stasis. This new book will look…
a short guide to Customer Experience
Following on from Karl Smith’s a short guide to Agile Transformation he plans to release another short guide book in 2022 called a short guide to Customer Experience. This new book will show Customer Experience in an end to end…
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 a holistic approach to WoW. It is imperative to be holistic in establishing new ways of working as boundaries to…
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 started in Scotland that is touching and building up people all across the world. The reflection at this point on…
Agile Transformation
The book about Agile Transformation is not theories but real consultancy refined by the experience of working in enterprises with both business and technology leaders and workers. It is aimed at decision makers and to everyone out there who has…
Storming Norming Performing Agile20Reflect Festival a view from the wings
Like many great performances there are many like me who prefer to support from the wings. I have for many years avoided the celebrities and various cults of Agile, not because I don’t respect them, but because I do Agile…
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. Taking that impetus to the next level we want to think wider about how we can establish the principles of…
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 to work and what to value. Some of these concepts are exactly the same as UX and are driven by…
What is Human Experience in Design?
Excerpt from Designing for Human Experience, republished by permission of Polymath Knowledge 25th Nov 2020 designing for TDP – the design process IA – information architecture CA – content author PD – product design ID – instructional design U –…
I don’t want to live in America but I do want to work there
One of the things that should have become apparent by now is that no one needs to be physically based in a location to work there. In 2020 the USA is one of the most dangerous places on the planet…
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 together an anthology of my life and my passion for designing for human experience. I describe what I do as…
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 step back a bit from that, I mean it’s wonderful sounding but what does it actually mean and does it…
Agile an Unexpected Journey Compendium Book
Agile an Unexpected Journey. A Compendium of Agile Biographies How exactly did people get involved in Agile, what did then learn that galvanised them and propelled them into a career in it? This compendium of Agile Biographies by practitioners expresses…
Servant Leadership Experiments in Ways of Working Book
Servant Leadership is not just another fad in business its a critical component of successful adoption of Business Agility. The book covers experiences and anecdotes describing 15 years of implementing Servant Leadership in high pressure, results oriented work environments. It…
Designing for Human Experience Book
Designing for Human Experience Forewords by Robert Powell and Patrick Neeman. Designing for Humans remains for me the most fantastic amalgamation of the complex to create the simple, useable and nascent components and artefacts that support human experiences. I’ll apologise…
Imagine If The Way We Now Live Became Redundant
Ari Abraham from Philosophie Group Inc. Santa Monica, California talks to Karl Smith, a consultant, and innovator who has said in the past “My desire was not to build things that humans already do but to find out how technology could evolve our human…
The Autonomous Hot Tub and other moving Rooms
Humanity continues to make the same innovation errors in every generation, instead of finding out “how technology could evolve our human experience” they focus on how to upgrade or change our existing experience. This is most evident in autonomous vehicles…
Global Thought Leader in Predictive Analytics Karl Smith
Predictive Analytics startup in 2019 Decision Point AI and SaaS company Advance Analytics AI may be in the past but its a knowledge base that few people have. I don’t just write about technology, digital disruption and customer engaged business…