Mark Smith

Mark A. Smith is a product management and software development professional with over two decades of experience leading engineering organizations through transformational change. Holding certifications in PMP, CSM, CSPO, and Six Sigma Black Belt, he has spent his career at the intersection of methodology and execution — watching frameworks come and go, each promising to solve the problems the last one created.

When AI coding tools arrived and teams started producing more code but shipping less value, Mark recognized a pattern no one was naming. He called it the Velocity Paradox — the counterintuitive phenomenon where AI tools increase individual productivity while decreasing organizational delivery. That observation, grounded in years of hands-on engineering leadership and validated by academic research from institutions including Tsinghua University and MIT, became the foundation for the Agentic Delivery Lifecycle.