Mar·tin Hin·shel·wood.

CEO, Principal Consultant & Trainer

Focus on maximising value delivery for software products ✪ Award-winning Tech Leader, Author, & Speaker with 20+ yrs in DevOps, Lean, Agile ✪ EBMgt & HDD Champion ✪ Exec Tech Advisor ✪ Scrum (PST) & Kanban (PKT) Trainer

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Transforming Software Development with Agile and DevOps Expertise

Martin Hinshelwood is a leading expert in Agile and DevOps, renowned for his ability to drive successful transformations in organizations of all sizes. With a wealth of experience in coaching, training, and consulting, Martin empowers teams to adopt modern software development practices, optimize processes, and achieve continuous improvement. His comprehensive approach integrates Agile methodologies, Scrum mastery, DevOps automation, certified training, change management, and Lean principles, making him a pivotal figure in advancing software delivery excellence.

Bio

Martin Hinshelwood is a passionate agile leader with a track record of inspiring, encouraging, and igniting momentum. Featured speaker, author, and industry thought leader, Martin has a strong track record of helping organizations build a vision and execute evolutionary and revolutionary change. His deep technical knowledge, business insight, and experience drive impactful change for organizations.

Technologist turned agilist, Martin successfully helped organisations decentralise, democratise, and evolve their way of work to build extraordinary processes and drive organizational change through culture, technology, and teamwork. Martin is a Professional Scrum Trainer . Professional Kanban Trainer and Microsoft MVP: Development Technologies

Specialists: DevOps, Lean and Agile Methodology, Organizational Transformation

Courses that Martin Teaches

Martin teaches accredited Scrum.org, ProKanban, Agile Kata, and OKR courses — every course, date, and booking lives on our dedicated training site. Find your course

What Martins Customers Say

Martin Hinshelwood helps organisations to deliver better software faster by adopting DevOps & Agility using Visual Studio, TFS/VSTS, Azure, & Scrum. Martin has been a consultant for 7 years and previously had 10 years’ experience in engineering software solutions.

Martin founded naked Agility Limited, when he returned to the UK in 2013, with the belief that every company deserves high quality working software delivered on a regular cadence that meets its customer’s needs.

He uses DevOps & Agile practices, learned through many years working with industry leaders, like Brian Harry and Ken Schwaber, to make sure that your development team can achieve it.

Martin has been awarded as a Microsoft MVP every year since 2008 in the ALM & DevOps category and has been a Visual Studio ALM Ranger since 2010. He attained his MCSD: Application Lifecycle Management in 2012. In 2014 Martin co-authored Professional Application Lifecycle Management with Visual Studio 2013 and was often called upon by Microsoft to present to customers and at events on ALM, DevOps, & Agility. Martin also became a Professional Scrum Trainer (PST) with Scrum.org, Ken Schwaber’s organisation, in 2010 and currently teaches public and private courses; Professional Scrum Foundations (PSF), Professional Scrum Master (PSM), Professional Scrum Developer (PSD), & Scaled Professional Scrum (SPS). In 2013 he became an Evidence-based Management Consultant (EBM) with Scrum.org and used Evidence-based Management techniques to help the customer understand where to make improvements. In 2020 Martin became a Professional Kanban Trainer (PKT) with ProKanban.org, Daniel Vacanti’s organisation, and currently teaches the Applying Professional Kanban (APK) training class.

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