Martin Hinshelwood nkdAgility.com
Engineering excellence through technical leadership ✪ Award-winning Tech Leader, Author, & Speaker with 20+ yrs in DevOps, Lean, Agile ✪ EBMgt & HDD Champion ✪ Exec Tech Advisor ✪ Scrum (PST) & Kanban
Glasgow, United Kingdom
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I'm an engineering consultant, author, and keynote speaker focused on DevOps, Lean, and Agile. I help organisations boost predictability and value delivery with practical, no-nonsense techniques. With over two decades in the field, I use Evidence-based Management (EBMgt), Hypothesis-Driven Development (HDD), and modern leadership practices to drive measurable improvements.
My work spans global enterprises, helping teams move from rigid, centralised models to adaptive, decentralised approaches that foster innovation and speed. As a Microsoft MVP in Developer Technologies since 2008 and a Scrum.org accredited trainer since 2010, I've trained thousands of professionals, delivered keynotes at major events like the Visual Studio 2012 launch, and co-authored 'Professional ALM with Visual Studio 2012'. My focus remains clear: delivering value through working products, not empty promises.
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Agile Evolution: An Enterprise transformation that shows that you can too
“That would never work here.” You’ve likely heard this sentiment (or maybe you’ve even said it yourself). Good news: change is possible. Martin Hinshelwood explains how Microsoft's Azure DevOps Services formerly VSTS went from a three-year waterfall delivery cycle to three-week iterations and open sourced the Azure DevOps task library and the Git Virtual File System.
There is a lot we can learn both from Microsoft's success and failures in moving towards Scrum, Agile, & Continuous Delivery.
Focus: DevOps Story / Journey of Microsoft to CD
Agile Evolution: Live Site Culture & Site Reliability at Azure DevOps
With the shift-left movement pushing more responsibility to the engineering teams what practices will help them cope with running a production site. These are the experiance of the Azure DevOps Services team and their journey from on premises to a fully fledged SAAS solution and wjay they need to do to run it and build trust with their customers.
We will cover the importance of transparency, telemitery, on-call, and how to protect your feature teams from disruptions without them loosing touch with production.
Focus: many teams, big public services, build-test-run
Most Scrum Masters Are Incompetent – How Will You Stand Out?
Most Scrum Masters fail to deliver real value. They get stuck in meeting facilitation, soft coaching, and chasing blockers, never developing the technical and business acumen required to drive real agility. The result? Weak teams, failed transformations, and organisations stuck in cargo cult agility.
This session will cut through the nonsense, challenge the status quo, and show you how to rise above the mediocrity. If you’re content with just booking meetings, this isn’t for you. If you want to be an elite Scrum Master who truly impacts teams and organisations, it’s time to step up.
Expect to walk away with:
A clear understanding of why most Scrum Masters fail.
The real skills needed to succeed.
A blueprint for standing out in a crowded field.
This session is for Scrum Masters who refuse to be mediocre, leaders who hire them, and Agile Coaches who want to raise the bar. It’s direct, insightful, and brutally honest—because agility deserves better than another useless Scrum Master.
MVP Summit 2024
Azure DevOps Migration Tools: The Story So Far!
DeveloperWeek Europe 2023 Sessionize Event
DWP Engineering Practices 2023
An Entprprose Transforamtion that shows that you can too
Bupa BAgile Digital Skills Conference
DevOps Story / Journey of Microsoft to Continuous Delivery
Agile Azerbijan 2022
How Agile needs to fight back
Scrum Day London 2022
Loosing Sight of the Outcome
Agile 2021
GHow to Spot Agile BS
Techorama 2021 Spring Edition Sessionize Event
Global Azure Norway Sessionize Event
Agile TV Ghana
The Innevatability of Change
NDC London 2021 Sessionize Event
NDC London 2021
An Enterprise Transformation that Shows that you can too
Scrum Day London 2020
How to spot agile BS
Scrum Day mexico 2020
How to detect agile BS
Agile In Nigeria 2020
The Inevatability of Change
Agile in Africa 2020
The Innevatability of Change
DWP Engineering Practices 2020
How to Spot Agile BS
Agile In South Africa 2020
The inevatability of Change
Agile Testing Days 2020
The Inevatability of Change
AOOS 2020
Story Points and Velocity are a sign of an immature team
Slack Conf 2020
Agile Evolution: An Enterprise transformation that shows that you can too
NDC Oslo 2020 Sessionize Event
NDC Oslo 2020
How to Spot Agile BS
Techorama 2020 BE Sessionize Event
Future of Work In Scotland 2020
Scaling Draggons and How to Tame Them
Scottish Summit Sessionize Event
The Scottish Summit 2020
How to Spot Agile BS
DevOps Pro Moscow 2019
Keynote on agile evolution
NDC Sydney 2019 Sessionize Event
Techorama Netherlands 2019 Sessionize Event
NDC Oslo 2019
Live Site Culture & Site Reliability at Azure DevOps
Techorama Belgium 2019 Sessionize Event
Deliver Agile 2019
Live Site Culture & Site Reliability at Azure DevOps.
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