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ALM Consulting in Scotland, UK, Scandinavia & Europe

TL;DR; Provides ALM consulting, training, and assessments across Scotland, UK, and Europe, specialising in lean-agile, TFS, Visual Studio, Scrum, and process improvement.

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Well, that’s me started ALM Consulting in Scotland, UK & Europe as naked ALM Consulting – Martin Hinshelwood. As I write this I am on a train on my way to my first engagement in the north of England is what looks to be and awesome group of folks to talk a little Scrum and Team Foundation Build.

As of the first of November I am back in Scotland and will be basing naked ALM Consulting out of my home town of Glasgow. However I will be traveling around Europe doing consulting and training for lean-agile, TFS, Visual Studio and Scrum and working with a bunch of ALM Gold partners in various countries. As I have been talking to my contacts many folks have been asking what it is that I have been doing for the last 3 years and what it is that naked ALM Consulting does… and even what ALM means anyway. I especially get these questions from my family…

Application lifecycle management (ALM) is the product lifecycle management (governance, development, and maintenance) of application software. It encompasses requirements management, software architecture, computer programming, software testing, software maintenance, change management, project management, and release management Wikipedia

If you are still asking, “But what can you do Martin?” then by all means read on as this post was created specifically for you. However there really is no short answer that does not open even more questions and I think that all of the ALM MVP’s are in the same boat with this.  I sometimes use “I help companies that build software build it better” for laymen, or “I help companies improve their software development processes” for the more initiated. Unfortunately that statement is neither eloquent nor expletive enough so I have tried many times to come up with something a little live a list of ‘things that I have done’:

I only tried to hit the highlights as I have had almost 80 customer engagements in the last 3 years with Northwest Cadence and every customer has unique problems and situations that are representative of their size or complexity. Its sometimes just about rolling up your sleeves and getting stuck in.

Wither you are looking for an ALM Consultant or you are a consulting company looking for an ALM Partner or even just an overflow valve (lol) for those busy periods then  I can help you out. If you need to understand what your organisation needs to do to improve their process then give me a call, and remember: Every company deserves working software on a regular cadence.

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