Transforming Organizational Effectiveness with DevOps
Explores how DevOps transformation, refactoring, and ownership reduce technical debt, streamline development, and boost efficiency, team satisfaction, …
NKD Agility helped SLB unify 800+ engineering teams by consolidating DevOps systems, standardizing processes, and improving visibility, collaboration, and delivery.
SLB , a global energy technology company with thousands of engineers and product teams worldwide, had grown through decades of decentralized decision-making. The result? Chaos.
They had:
Even teams working on the same product were using different fields, forms, and tracking systems. This made it virtually impossible for technical or business leadership to get a coherent view of delivery, performance, or investment.
SLB engaged Martin Hinshelwood from NKD Agility to lead a massive transformation initiative. The ask? Standardize processes, consolidate collections, and make collaboration across teams and locations possible—all without disrupting work.
Martin surfaced three root causes:
Martin designed and delivered a multi-year transformation program:
This wasn’t just a tooling change. It was a systems intervention.
Martin’s key lesson: “It’s never too late to clean up. Even if you’ve got 900 custom processes and 800 projects, the right system-level thinking—paired with automation and a mandate—can bring order and momentum back to your engineering organization.”
If you want technical leadership, you need system clarity. And that means consolidating where fragmentation is slowing you down.
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