Karl A L Smith

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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…

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…

Introduction to Agile from forthcoming Counterfeit Agile 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 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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Karl Smith’s One Golden Nugget

I was contacted about http://www.onegoldennugget.com  and what my #nugget would be. I’m genuinely #excited about what the next and next again #generation will do. What’s your nugget? https://onegoldennugget.com/send-us-your-nugget/

Agile World R&D company UbiNET issues two cryptocurrencies the #ThingCoin and #UbiNET-p-Token

As part of the platform development process for #SmartLiving UbiNET Inc. has launched two cryptocurrencies the ThingCoin and UbiNET-p-Token. The two currencies work together within the platform to both secure identity and enable transactions. UbiNET-p-Token is the user access token for the UbiNET platform…

#Digital #Transformation is #About #People

Karl Smith will be talking at Digital Transformation 2017 on 23rd Feb Our Dynamic Earth Edinburgh organised by Scot TECH http://www.scot-tech.com/ Digital is about People, not technology. Digital is a response to the desire of people to focus their lives towards…

#OpenNetworking #Ecosystem #Protocol #Patent

While everyone else has been focused on selling the dream of ubiquity Agile World Inc. has been working on a protocol to make it a reality. In essence the protocol is about; A method of defining an organic or inorganic items…

20 questions about the life and experience of #KarlSmith

I was recently asked to answer 20 questions by Beament Leslie Thomas (BLT) a leading niche, specialist recruitment company some of it explains why I like to do the impossible and how. This edition of 20 Questions is with Karl…

#Alive and Present #Everywhere open #IoT3 Ecosystems #SmartLiving

Introduction The IoT is a much marketed term as the future of all things; the IoT is interconnected landscape of life experiences and transactions What is the IoT, how is it intended to work and how does that relate to how…

Situational awareness drives open IoT Ecosystems not visual interfaces

The foundation for this thinking goes back to a notion of the ‘social life of things’ . If things themselves exist and have a number of trajectories and states then those things also potentially have accessible and useful human touch…