Agile Teams About Us - Principal Collaborators: Karen Smiley Italicized links go off this site, and will open in a new window.     Ms. Karen Smiley is an AI-savvy engineering leader and an advocate and independent thinker/writer on #EthicalAI, #DiversityInTech, #PeopleFirstCulture, and technology. As a creative collaborative technology leader, she has built broad and deep global experience in the full development lifecycle for multi-platform hardware-software systems. She has built and led multiple geographically-distributed and remote agile teams that design and deliver advanced industrial analytics and toolsets. Karen is an accomplished mentor, teacher, author, manager, coach, architect, and data scientist who is always looking for opportunities to use technology and data for good. Everything she publishes is 100% human-authored. She still enjoys creating software, analyzing data, and above all, meeting challenges and solving problems.   To date, Karen has co-invented on 12+ US patents for software technology innovations, and has authored or co-authored 40+ academic and industrial publications (see below for some recent highlights). She is currently working with selected collaborators on publishing guidebooks for executives, architects, and practitioners on embedding intelligent features into software development practices, products, and people processes (to be published in 2024; look for previews on Substack).   How to contact Karen: Connect via Substack Agile Analytics and Beyond (Karen's newsletter; 100% human-authored) agile Teams (focused on little-a agile and building big-t Teams) 6 P's in AI Pods (People, Places, Products, Platforms, Practices, Processes) Network on LinkedIn: Follow or message agile Teams or Karen Email: firstname at agileteams dot com Less frequently monitored: collaborate on Github message via Twitter (X)  network on ResearchGate or Academia.edu connect to Agile Teams on Facebook message via IEEE Collabratec Highlights of Karen's recent accomplishments and published contributions Feb. 20, 2024: 1 new US patent granted: #17,257,436 (third inventor); related WO patent application WO2020010326A1 is pending Feb-Mar 2024: Volunteer reviewer for the Wiley "Journal of Software: Evolution and Process" on global software development Oct. 18, 2023: paper accepted and presented at IEEE Secure Development Conference (SecDev23): Characterizing Static Analysis Alerts for Terraform Manifests: An Experience Report (5th author) July 6, 2021: 1 new US patent granted: #11,055,450 (second inventor) 2021-22: Technical Program Committee member for the International Semantic Intelligence Conference January 12, 2021: 1 new US patent granted: #10,891,296 (lead inventor) Sept. 17, 2020: Cutter Consortium Executive Update article on "Value Stream Mapping as a Teaming Exercise" (co-author with Catherine Louis of CLL Group); published in Business Agility & Software Engineering Excellence March 17, 2020: 1 new US patent granted: #10,591,970 (co-inventor) Jan. 14, 2020: 2 new US patents granted: #10,534,361 (lead inventor) and #10,535,025 (lead inventor) 2019: INFORMS Data Science workshop poster/paper "Applying Data Science to Improve Solar Power Production and Reliability" (co-author) 2019: 4 new world patents granted for US #9,547,695 (EP/DE/FR/GB 14157290.9; co-inventor) 2019: Invited industry panelist at the inaugural Women In Engineering event for IEEE ITEC'19 (topic: "A Reinvention Retrospective") 2019: Cutter Consortium Executive Update article on "5 Scenarios for Addressing Agile's Cognitive Dissonance in Large, Non-Software Companies" (co-author with Catherine Louis of CLL Group); published in Business Agility & Software Engineering Excellence 2019Q2: ABB Review Special Issue on simulation and digital twins, article on "Managing Asset Performance with Connected Analytics for Solar" (lead author) 2018: US patent #10,074,402 granted (co-inventor) 2018: INCOSE Insight Magazine article on "Overcoming the Challenges of Agile for Globally Distributed Industrial Research" (lead author) 2017 ABB USCRC Technical Review article on "Industrial Analytics for Solar Inverters and Plants" (lead author) 2017: Two new US patents granted - #9,547,695 (co-inventor) and #9,418,183 (co-inventor) 2016-2019: Technical Program Committee member for WICSA/CompArch/CBSE/QoSA 2016, ICSA 2017, ICSA 2018, and ICSA 2019 (International Conference on Software Architecture). Contributed to the Software Engineering In Practice (SEIP) track of ICSE 2018 as a member of the Program Committee 2017: Co-author on MESA White Paper #57: "Asset Performance Management (APM) 2.0 - Guidelines for Goal Setting & Implementation Planning" (the Reader's Choice for Dec. 2017!) 2017-2020: Program Committee member for the 2017 RCoSE, 2018 RCoSE, and 2019 RCoSE/DDrEE, Rapid Continuous Software Engineering International Workshops 2016: ICSE 2016 CSED (Continuous Software Evolution and Delivery), Program Committee member and lead author on "From Ideas to Implementations: Closing the Gaps between Technical Experts and Software Solutions" (presented by co-author Pankesh Patel) 2015-2016: Active contributor in MESA Asset Performance Management 2.0 Working Group and XML Committee on KPI-ML 2015: SPLC paper "Evolving an Industrial Analytics Product Line Architecture" (lead author and presenter) 2014Q1: ABB Review article, "Picture of health" on industrial analytics and asset health management (lead author) 2014: WICSA paper, "A Dynamic Software Product Line Architecture for Prepackaged Expert Analytics" (lead author) 2012: SEKE paper, "Forecasting Fault Events in Power Distribution Grids Using Machine Learning" (co-author)