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…

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;…

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….

Deepdive on Agile Mindsets Agile World Hot Topic S4 E5

Darren Thatcher deepdive on Agile Mindsets Agile World Hot Topics with our hosts Sabrina C E Noto and Karl A L Smith talk with Darren Thatcher https://www.linkedin.com/in/darren-thatcher/ with Deepdive on Agile Mindsets, about the complexity around agile mindsets, patterns, cognition…

OKRs for the truth about KPIs Agile World Hot Topic S4 E1

OKRs for the truth about KPIs Agile World Hot Topics with our hosts Sabrina C E Noto and Karl Smith talk with Anthony Coppedge talking about OKRs and their relationship to KPIs, metrics are mentioned and milestones and the problems…

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 World with Padmini Nidumolu in Gender Inclusion is a Business Imperative S3 E8

Gender Inclusion is a Business Imperative on Agile World with our hosts Sabrina C E Noto and Karl Smith talk with Padmini Nidumolu https://www.linkedin.com/in/padmini-nidumolu/ men hold 62% of management and leadership positions while women just 38%. Many companies are unaware…

2021 Agile Culture Survey

2021 Agile Culture Survey Agile world interviews the organisations behind the largest ever global report on Agile culture: JCURV, the Agile Business Consortium and Truthsayers. We dive into why the 2021 Agile Culture Survey is so important, the innovative neuroscience…

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…

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…

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,…

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 World with Peter Stevens on Personal Agility S3 E1

Agile World with our hosts Sabrina C E Noto and Karl Smith interviewing Peter Stevens about Personal Agility on Agile World. He is the creator of The Personal Agility System ™, the simple framework for doing more that matters. It…

Agile World with Chris Stone S2 E12

Chris Stone interview on Agile World with our hosts Sabrina C E Noto and Karl Smith talk  about Agile, Agnostic Agile, Agile Retrospectives and Ways of Working that help people. Chris Stone interview with ??? ??????? ????? ?????, Enterprise Agile…

Agile World with Evelyn Lekhtman S2 E11

Agile World with our hosts Sabrina C E Noto and Karl Smith interviewing Evelyn Lekhtman about dealing with negative working environments and then finding exceptional ones and how people really can impact positively if they choose to. While interviewing Evelyn…

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 with Anthony Coppedge S2 E10

Agile World with our hosts Sabrina C E Noto and Karl Smith interviewing Anthony Coppedge about how he adopted Agile as if was made for how he was already thinking and how that excites him in his ways of working…

Agile World with Phil Baird S2 E9

Phil Baird interview on Agile World with our hosts Sabrina C E Noto and Karl Smith talk with Phil Baird about his Agile journey. Fun and in depth conversation with a Product Owner. During the Phil Baird interview he reacted…

Agile World with Andrew Palmer S2 E8

Andrew Palmer interview on Agile World with our hosts Sabrina C E Noto and Karl Smith talk with Andrew Palmer https://www.linkedin.com/in/mrajpalmer/ about his Agile journey and Agile Testing, Quality in organisations and all manner of things. A proven global business…