by Martin Hinshelwood
In the 2020 Scrum Guide Ken and Jeff augmented the idea of the Sprint Goal. The Sprint Goal is a commitment to ensure transparency and focus against progress during a Sprint. The Sprint Goal is the single objective for the …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Many organisations wrestle with the seeming incompatibility between agile and release management and they struggle with release planning and predictable delivery.
by Martin Hinshelwood
In the 2020 Scrum Guide Ken and Jeff introduces the idea of the Product Goal. The Product Goal is a commitment to ensure transparency and focus against progress. The Product Goal describes a future state of the product which can …
by Martin Hinshelwood
It has been 25 years since Scrum was first created by Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland and it has gone through many revisions. The last major revision was in 2017 and this update represents a simplification for 2020. The 2020 …
by Martin Hinshelwood
In 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 the 80% of communication that …
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 …
by Martin Hinshelwood
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 …
by Martin Hinshelwood
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; …
by Martin Hinshelwood
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 …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Martin Hinshelwood·FollowPublished innaked Agility from Martin Hinshelwood·6 min read·Dec 8, 2017–I am always surprised at the number of teams that release undone work to production. I understand that one may need a few sprints, or many if you inherited something …
by Martin Hinshelwood
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, …
by Martin Hinshelwood
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 …
by Martin Hinshelwood
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 …
by Martin Hinshelwood
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
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
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
To my understanding 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 backlog item.
by Martin Hinshelwood
You will understand where and how agility can help your organization improve, by addressing challenges you can solve in no other way. You will also understand how agile teams work and what you, as a manager or leader, can do …