Seamless DevOps Migration

Your legacy systems constrain delivery speed and increase risk.

You see it in every release cycle. Your teams see it when trying to ship safely. Modernising infrastructure while delivery continues feels impossible, but staying put costs more.

Modernise without disruption. Deliver value throughout migration. You gain automated pipelines, secure infrastructure, and improved flow while your business keeps running.

Trapped by outdated infrastructure?

Unable to ship safely and frequently?

Losing competitive ground while competitors move faster?

Migration is strategic capability, not project risk. Gain clarity, reduce friction, and modernise with confidence.

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What improves for you

Move from legacy infrastructure to modern systems

Break free from monolithic constraints and brittle deployments. You gain the ability to evolve infrastructure alongside product needs.

Reduce migration risk and delivery disruption

Deliver value throughout migration. Downtime becomes a design choice, not an inevitability.

Embed security and compliance from the start

Security moves into every pipeline. You stay compliant without separate audit streams or last-minute scrambles.

Create interoperable systems that scale

Reduce vendor lock-in. Gain clean, composable infrastructure that adapts as your business evolves.

Build internal capability

Your teams gain the skills and confidence to sustain modern practices. Migration becomes a catalyst for long-term engineering strength.

“Martin is extremely knowledgeable and experienced in helping teams become more agile and adopt DevOps practices especially around the Microsoft Azure platform and VSTS / TFS. But he is not limited to that stack with plenty of experience with competing and complimentary technologies. He explains things clearly and gets rid of any ‘smoke and mirrors’ to show how any team can make small improvements to improve how they work. He is one of the leading MVP’s globally for DevOps and someone myself and my colleagues in the Azure product group trust to give us honest and insightful feedback.”
Martin Woodward | Principal Group Program Manager | Azure DevOps, Microsoft

Strategic outcomes from modern infrastructure

Infrastructure that evolves with your product

CI/CD, infrastructure as code, automated testing, and observability become the foundation for continuous improvement.

Faster delivery with fewer failures

Improved deployment frequency and reduced lead time. You ship more often with higher confidence.

Clarity in technology decisions

Make informed choices about tooling, architecture, and technical direction. Your roadmap becomes an asset.

Authority to lead technical change

Become the trusted voice for engineering strategy. Less firefighting, more strategic influence.

Engineering economics visibility

See where engineering effort creates value and where it creates waste. Make better allocation decisions across teams and initiatives.

Migration creates the conditions for

Move from legacy systems to automated infrastructure
Reduce migration downtime and business disruption
Embed security, observability, and testing from day one
Enable CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and reliable deployments
Improve deployment frequency and reduce change failure rate

Gain clarity in complex technical transitions
Reduce anxiety and increase confidence in technical strategy
Create the conditions for safer, faster change
Build internal capability that outlasts the migration
Innovate without losing control

Lead confidently through technical transformation
Speak with authority to executives and stakeholders
Shape engineering culture and delivery expectations
Align product, engineering, and business priorities
Drive outcomes, not just outputs

Engagement pattern

We work on a timeboxed retainer, often one hour a week. You get consistent strategic input without procurement friction or scope negotiation. If you’re not satisfied, we refund you.

Why NKD Agility

We understand migration complexity and engineering economics.

Martin Hinshelwood (Microsoft MVP) brings decades of DevOps, Agile, and technical transformation experience. We combine deep engineering expertise with outcome-focused delivery so your migration creates lasting capability, not just new infrastructure.

Deep technical capability grounded in real migrations

DevOps treated as engineering ethos, not methodology

Strategic clarity alongside hands-on execution

Move to modern infrastructure with confidence. Deliver value throughout migration. Explore migration support

What else do you get?

Explore our comprehensive range of services and capabilities designed to empower organizations and teams. With our expert solutions, you can efficiently address and resolve immediate challenges, driving success across your operations.

Engineering Excellence

Enables you to deliver reliably at pace with confidence, reduced risk, and sustainable flow. Modern practices become standard, and engineering capability becomes competitive advantage.

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Achieve Excellence

Solving Real Problems

Move from tool-centric thinking to problem-focused strategy, enabling better decisions, clearer priorities, and sustainable outcomes.

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Solve Real Problems

Technical Leadership

Technical leadership capability that connects engineering excellence to strategic direction, enabling better decisions, clearer visibility, and confident execution at every level.

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Develop Leaders

Strategic Decision-Making

Enable evidence-based decision-making through clear metrics, aligned operating models, and systems that connect strategy to execution with confidence.

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Strengthen Decisions

Economic Returns from Engineering

Engineering capability becomes competitive advantage through flow economics, strategic visibility, and evidence-based decisions that connect technical work to measurable business outcomes.

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Maximise Returns

Clarity in Technology Roadmaps

You gain strategic confidence in technical direction. Investment decisions become defensible. You align architecture, systems, and teams towards coherent growth without friction.

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Gain Strategic Clarity

Cross Functional Alignment

When departments speak the same language, your decisions improve, forecasts gain credibility, and strategy translates into execution with less distortion.

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Explore Alignment

Culture Transformation and Team Enablement

Teams that own outcomes, adapt to change, and deliver predictably, without burning out or disengaging.

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Transform Your Culture

Upskilled Engineering Teams

Build engineering capability that becomes competitive advantage through hands-on coaching embedded in delivery work.

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Upskilled Engineering Teams

Executive and Stakeholder Alignment

Enable strategic clarity and confident decisions through evidence-based communication, economic visibility, and shared understanding between technical and business leadership.

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Create Alignment

Reduced Risk, Increased Stability

Deploy with confidence and sleep at night. Create the conditions for safer delivery, clearer visibility, and proactive risk management without sacrificing speed.

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Build Stable Systems

Faster More Predictable Software Delivery

Achieve faster delivery and predictable flow through engineering practices that improve lead times, reduce risk, and maintain quality at scale.

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We partner with businesses across diverse industries, including finance, insurance, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, technology, engineering, transportation, hospitality, entertainment, legal, government, and military sectors.