Agile20Reflect Festival: A Story of Passion, Agility and Grace!

Just as the Agile Manifesto exemplified and crystallised the thinking of the time so The Agile20Reflect Festival did the same 20 years later. In this meetup we hear from three of the many people who envisioned the festival and made Scott Seivwright’s dream for all agilists come true. What was that dream well you’ll need to come along and hear it from Scott himself. With Scott are Grace Johnson and Karl Smith two volunteers that added to the vision and helped it become real.

These three Agile20Reflect trustees were key to making the festival happen with their passion, agility, and grace during the month of February 2021.

Speaker Biographies
Scott Seivwright, CEO and Trustee, Agile20Reflect

Scott is an Agile Coach working with software teams, he lives in Scotland. He has been know to use Kanban, Scrum, PSK, Open Space, SAFe, Cynefin, Heart of Agile, Clean Language, Flow, Agendashift, and has experience of most methodologies (have not yet used Xscale or Nexus) but is non-allegiant over methods. He believes in the power of invitation and respecting people. Also in challenging systemic barriers and is part of the Be More Pirate Movement – He loves their Manifesto too. He is passionate about people, inclusion, equality and creating awesome places where we can learn from each other. Previously, he has led digital and modernisation programs valued in the multi-billions, created Digital Apps and led huge teams.
He does prefer embedding and coaching small teams in 1:1 settings. He is a full stack Agile coach from User to opps. He spends his time encouraging others to create things, talk at events and overcome their imposter syndrome and helps to make a more inclusive and vibrant Agile Community. (Current hobby learning how to be a fun grassroots Festival Director.)

Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/in/heartofscott/
Twitter : @HeartOfScott

Email : Agile20GlobalRetro@gmail.com

Karl Smith, CTO and Trustee, Agile20Reflect
He has been a consultant and innovator in Business Transformation and Human Centred Design since 1989 and in Agile since 2004 involved in supporting both business and technology in the adoption of Customer Centricity and Agility. His recent focus has been on combining HCD and Agile in Enterprise Agile Portfolio management as an extension of SAFe. This was delivered in the NatWest Group from Business through to IT, Retail Banking and Commercial Banking Transformation with 88,000 staff.
Karl Smith is a Fellow of the British Computer Society FBCS, a member by invitation of BCS ELITE the CIO & CTO group and European CIO Association and has supported various Westminster Parliamentary Groups since 2003. He regularly speaks at conferences on a myriad of subjects Agile, HCD, IoT, Blockchain and Social Media including speaking in the House of Lords on Fake News.

He has worked globally and loves to travel and meet new people as his focus has always been people “My desire was not to build things that humans already do but to find out how technology could evolve our human experience.”

LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/karlsmith2/

Twitter : @UserExperienceU

Grace Johnson, World Ambassador Facilitator and Trustee

Grace has worked mostly as a Project Manager for over five years in the housing sector in Nigeria. She holds a Project Management Professional Certification from the Project Management Institute (PMI). In the past year, Grace transited into the Agile space, gaining her PSM I and PSM II certifications. She is on the Trustee Board of Agile 20 Reflect and helped to galvanise worldwide Participation at the recently concluded Agile 20 Reflect Festival, through the Worldwide Ambassador Network which she leads, comprising 85 Ambassadors from 18 world regions.