Karl A L Smith

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TED profile Update

People often meet me through my work in technology, but don’t realise is that creativity has been constant throughout my entire life. I’ve just been through a really interesting process of committing to updating my TED profile and I learned…

Product Management Careers on Agile World ®

Sabrina C E Noto and Karl A L Smith welcome Shobhit Chugh to Agile World to talk about Product Management Careers. Guest Shobhit Chugh on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/shobhitchugh/ Intentional Product Manager https://www.intentionalproductmanager.com Co Hosts Sabrina C E Noto Karl A L…

Agile AI and Agile Healthcare Implementations with JCURV

Agile World ® is excited to be back and talking about Agile AI and Agile Healthcare with the team from JCURV about some really interesting case studies. The first part of the show is about bringing Agile practice into strategic…

Agile World at Agile2024 the European Experience

Agile World in English is Back with Sabrina C E Noto and Karl A L Smith, the special announcement is that Agile World team will be attending the Agile2024, the European Experience presented by the Agile Alliance and hosted by the…

The 3rd State of Agile Culture Report with Agile World ®

  The Agile World ® team talks to the State of Agile Culture report team. We get some insights from this years report and highlight some significant data disparity between the c-suite and workers. Only 10% of leaders are Post…

Customer Agility Framework ™ soft launch

The Customer Agility Framework ™ is being soft launched on the 29th of September 2023 through an interactive website https://customeragilityframework.com/ a companion website with the business benefits case was previously launched https://customeragility.com/. There will be a Customer Agility Framework ™…

Agile World reunion with Scott Seivwright on ESG Agility and Fundraising Gala

  It’s a reunion call today with Scott Seivwright the person who suggested that Sabrina C E Noto and Karl A L Smith got together to do a video to support the 2021 Agile20Reflect Festival. Sabrina C E Noto and…

State of Agile Culture Survey 2023 and some Agile Leadership insights

Agile World team talks to the State of Agile Culture survey team while there is still time to complete it. The first two surveys revealed that leadership was one of the biggest challenges for agile culture. The 3rd report hopes…

A new perspective with Karl A L Smith Interview

Karl A L Smith unpacks the latest technology trends in this episode, a must-listen for business leaders looking to prioritise investment. A new perspective with Karl A L Smith Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, Google Podcasts Transcript Speaker 1: Ready to explore…

State of Agile Culture 2023 with Agile World ®

Agile World ® is supporting the 2023 Agile Culture research project. This project is being delivered using unique technology within a survey that collects the truth about agile culture using the Neurotech® platform the people analytics technology. The survey objectives…

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…

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…

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.

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;…

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 of activity. While this understanding should be common sense it’s not apparent from the numerous metrics being employed both during…

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…

Story Points are DEAD Agile World Hot Topic S3 E6

Story Points are DEAD Agile World Hot Topic with our hosts Sabrina C E Noto and Karl Smith talk with Mark Walsh  about Story Points. Insightful as always Mark describes the problem leaving our host aghast with the knowledge of…

Agile World with Cynthia Kahn S3 E5

Interviewing Cynthia Kahn on Agile World with our hosts Sabrina C E Noto and Karl Smith about her Agile Journey. Interviewing Cynthia Kahn shows she applies Agile practices to deliver results more quickly and increase profits. Seasoned agile coach, scrum…

Agile World with Stuart Young S3 E4

Interviewing Stuart Young on Agile World with our hosts Sabrina C E Noto and Karl Smith about his Agile Journey. Interviewing Stuart Young during this show Stuart references a set of visual images to explain his agile journey. These images…

Agile World with Jatin Sanghavi on S3 E3

Interviewing Jatin Sanghavi on Agile World with our hosts Sabrina C E Noto and Karl Smith talking about his Agile Journey. Jatin is a result-oriented IT professional with over 15+ years of hands-on in Business/Agile Transformation, Direction, Product/Program/Project Management Consulting…

Agile World with Yury Ialtanskii S3 E2

Agile World with our hosts Sabrina C E Noto and Karl Smith interviewing Yury Ialtanskii on Agile Journey. Interviewing Yury Ialtanskii on Agile experiences from both practice and his talks at The Agile20Reflect Festival. Yury has Extensive experience with Scrum,…