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by Martin Hinshelwood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUC5TainG2E #microsoft are internationally recognized and acknowledged to be a powerful, market-leading force in #productdevelopment and #software engineering. They are also one of the few mega-organizations to master #agile as their preferred choice for complex problem-solving and complex solution development. …
by Martin Hinshelwood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6opxb0FYcU #shorts #agile values and principles set the scene for environments where we value and respect people a great deal, and where we seek to discover new and better ways of doing things over repeating the same things over and …
by Martin Hinshelwood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEu8Fw4JQWM #WIP aka #workinprogress is a critical element of managing flow in a #kanban or #agile environment such as #scrum. We’ve identified how work flows through the system, through each stage of development, and now we want to optimize how …
by Martin Hinshelwood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hB8oQPpderI #shorts #agile books are great. You can learn a great deal about #scrum, #kanban, or any other #agileframework from reading a great book. In fact, to become successful in our field, you need to read a lot of books, …
by Martin Hinshelwood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spfK8bCulwU A great #productowner is a game-changer in the organization because they help shape and articulate the product vision, mission, and goals. People like Steve Jobs who create and sustain a standard of #productdevelopment that captures the imagination of an …
by Martin Hinshelwood
https://youtu.be/_fFs-0GL1CA Why do you encourage people to follow a certification path in their career journey? I would encourage you to follow a scrum certification path for the same reason that people go to university. The same reason that people do …
by Martin Hinshelwood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZKvdhDPMjg #shorts #agilecoach or #agileconsultant will receive a lot of training and mentoring on how to create a successful #agilecoaching engagement, but it is very seldom for clients to receive any insight or training into achieving the same outcome. In …
by Martin Hinshelwood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2sXBMPHl2Y In #scrumtraining, there are people who pursue certifications to open doors in future, whilst others are in pursuit of knowledge and skills that will help them become more effective in their role. Certification matters because it validates your knowledge …
by Martin Hinshelwood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sb9RsFslUfU Over millennia, the path to mastery has always involved empowering others to achieve the same outcomes or results you have achieved, through the effective transfer of knowledge, skills, and capabilities. From architecture to sculptures, from chefs to software engineers, …
by Martin Hinshelwood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNJerYuU30E #shorts As we progress in our #agile career, we are often privileged to meet people who shape the trajectory of our career and experiences in meaningful, powerful ways. People who take the time to teach, coach, and mentor us …
by Martin Hinshelwood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kT9sB1jIz0U #shorts Traditional #management environments tend to be based on hierarchies of control. X individual is the leader of the organization and everything flows down from there, from the highest rank to the lowest rank. hierarchies of competence are based …
by Martin Hinshelwood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVNiLx3QHLg #shorts a hierarchy of control is what traditional management thrives on, a top down flow of power and command. A hierarchy of competence thrives when the people best equipped to solve the problem are the people who are actively …
by Martin Hinshelwood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2TObrUi3m0 #agile has come a long way since its inception in 2001, and there have been many #agileframeworks, practices, tools, techniques, and ideas that have been introduced along the way. Some have proven incredibly popular, like #scrum, whilst other great …
by Martin Hinshelwood
https://youtu.be/QGXlCm_B5zA What will you learn on the PSM II course? There are two main things that most scrum masters will learn on the PSM II or Advanced Professional Scrum Master course. That they haven’t been working effectively as a scrum …
by Martin Hinshelwood
https://youtu.be/klBiNFvxuy0 What is the most common Aha moment people have in a scrum course? It depends on the scrum course they are attending. The content presented in the Applying Professional Scrum (APS) course leads to very different epiphanies when compared …
by Martin Hinshelwood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQZeM20TO4c #shorts An #agileleader has a great deal of responsibility to open the environment to change, facilitate rapid innovation cycles, and create environments where #agile teams can thrive. Traditional managers have managed environments, sometimes micromanaged, to ensure a solid objective …
by Martin Hinshelwood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fz91w-_6vE As a #devops #consultant, Martin Hinshelwood has worked in multiple geographies, across multiple industry applications, and with a wide variety of clients. Each of those unique environments requires their own special agenda and set of capabilities, but there are …
by Martin Hinshelwood
https://youtu.be/4FTEJ4tDQqU Why did you embrace Agile over traditional project management as a developer? I didn’t get the opportunity to adopt agile whilst I was still a developer, that only came about because I was frustrated by the limitation of traditional …
by Martin Hinshelwood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agPLmBdXdbk #shorts #agileconsulting requires you to help clients solve complex problems in very rapid iterations. Ultimately, you’re being brought in to an #agile or #scrum environment with the intention of helping the organization solve problems that they are battling to …
by Martin Hinshelwood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DceVQ5JQaUw When #agile meets traditional #management and #projectmanagement environments, there is often a clash of culture. In one environment, we are interrogating the data and practices to discover probem areas and actively designing ways to improve and evolve. In the …