Agile Teams About Us - Principal Collaborators Italicized links go off this site, and will open in a new window.   Karen Smiley   Ms. Smiley is a creative collaborative technology leader with broad and deep global experience in the full development lifecycle for multi-platform hardware-software systems. She leads 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. She still enjoys creating software, analyzing data, and above all, meeting challenges and solving problems. To date, Karen has co-invented on 10+ US patents for software technology innovations, and has authored or co-authored 40+ academic and industrial publications.   Highlights of Karen's recent accomplishments and contributions: 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) For more information, see Karen Smiley - LinkedIn profile. You may message Karen there; contact Karen on twitter; connect to Agile Teams on Facebook; reach her via her networks on ResearchGate, Academia.edu, or Github; or email her at firstname at agileteams dot com.