by Martin Hinshelwood
Martin HinshelwoodJan 18, 2021·11 min readFor many people the traditional project management methodologies (see PMI / PRINCE2) are the root of the problems that birthed Waterfall. I assert that this is the tip of the iceberg. These methodologies are just …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Martin HinshelwoodJan 4, 2021·6 min readStory Points and velocity have been used for many years in the Scrum community and have been engrained so much in the way that things are done that most folks believe that they are part …
by Martin Hinshelwood
There is no such thing as an Agile Transformation, Digital Transformation, DevOps Transformation, or any of the Whatever Transformation that you can think of or have been sold. You can’t buy agility, and you certainly can’t install it. There is …
by Martin Hinshelwood
by Martin Hinshelwood
Martin Hinshelwood·FollowPublished innaked Agility from Martin Hinshelwood·7 min read·Mar 20, 2014–A few weeks ago I headed out to the Scrum.org offices in Boston to participate in training to hone my skills as an Evidence-based Management Consultant. I was talking to …
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Martin Hinshelwood·FollowPublished innaked Agility from Martin Hinshelwood·2 min read·May 10, 2017–Why is it that while there is a Government Cloud First policy there are so much fear of cloud in the public sector? I have been working with a number …
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Martin Hinshelwood·FollowPublished innaked Agility from Martin Hinshelwood·3 min read·May 17, 2017–Many folks believe that a Sprint is an arbitrary length of time in which you create and release software. They look at their continuous delivery pipeline and say to themselves; …
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Martin Hinshelwood·FollowPublished innaked Agility from Martin Hinshelwood·8 min read·Nov 10, 2017–There are a number of things that you have to think about when selecting a modern source control system. Some of that is purely about code, but modern source control …
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Martin Hinshelwood·FollowPublished innaked Agility from Martin Hinshelwood·6 min read·Dec 10, 2017–Many teams are struggling with delivering modern software because they are not building with Test First Principals. Test First gives us the assurance that we have built the correct thing, …
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Martin Hinshelwood·FollowPublished innaked Agility from Martin Hinshelwood·6 min read·Dec 11, 2017–There is a better way than staggered iterations for delivery that will keep you on the path to agility. Staggered iterations lead to more technical debt and lower quality software.TL;DR;The …
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Martin Hinshelwood·FollowPublished innaked Agility from Martin Hinshelwood·6 min read·Dec 13, 2017–There is a frustrating misunderstanding of reality when one thinks that the Product Owner can reject a single story at the Sprint Review. This is the fallacy of the rejected …
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Martin Hinshelwood·FollowPublished innaked Agility from Martin Hinshelwood·10 min read·Dec 29, 2017–Many organisations wrestle with the seeming incompatibility between agile and release management and they struggle with release planning and predictable delivery.TL;DR;Without working software, you cant build trust and you don’t …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Martin HinshelwoodJul 13, 2020·8 min readThere is no such thing as an Agile Transformation, Digital Transformation, DevOps Transformation, or any of the Whatever Transformation that you can think of or have been sold. You can’t buy agility, and you certainly …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Martin HinshelwoodJul 1, 2020·3 min readThese Sirens take advantage of the lack of understanding of what business agility is trying to change and lures unsuspecting C-suite executives into parting with their cash for what is effectively someone else’s business process. …
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Martin HinshelwoodJun 28, 2020·6 min readIn light of the new normal and the last 20 years of technological progress, we need to re-define co-location as we no longer need to be in the same room as each other to get …
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Martin HinshelwoodJun 18, 2020·3 min readWith the change in business model in the current crisis, many training organizations have had to do the unthinkable and move to Live Virtual training options. Existing wisdom was that training online, just as running …
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Martin HinshelwoodOct 21, 2019·4 min readAs part of the Scrum.org webinar “Ask a Professional Scrum Trainer — Martin Hinshelwood — Answering Your Most Pressing Scrum Questions” I was asked a number of questions. Since not only was I on the …