Technical Leadership: Empowering Teams Through Technical Excellence

Guidance and coaching for agile professionals and leadership.

Unlock your team's true potential—discover why a powerful definition of done drives real business impact, customer value, and lasting competitive …

Explores how Agile principles, technical leadership, and engineering excellence help teams manage unpredictability, adapt to change, and deliver …

Learn what qualities to seek in an Agile coach, including technical expertise, business acumen, and the ability to engage both technical teams and …

Explores effective Agile transformation by empowering teams, improving collaboration, focusing on value delivery, and fostering continuous improvement …

Explains why Scrum Masters should not direct teams, emphasising self-organisation, shared responsibility, and the importance of team autonomy in Scrum …

Explains how effective Scrum Masters empower teams through facilitation, support, and coaching, moving away from authority and micromanagement to …

Practical experience is essential for effective Scrum Masters; certification alone is insufficient. True expertise comes from guiding teams, solving …

A Scrum Master empowers teams by facilitating, mentoring, and supporting—not micromanaging—fostering trust, collaboration, and continuous improvement …

Explains why a Scrum Master should facilitate and empower agile teams, not micromanage, highlighting the importance of trust, autonomy, and effective …

Learn practical agile leadership skills, foster team alignment, and drive cultural change with Scrum.org’s workshop to support agile transformation …

Compares Satya Nadella’s and Steve Jobs’s leadership, highlighting Nadella’s agile approach that fosters innovation, decentralised decision-making, …

Covers key responsibilities, skills, and requirements for hiring a Scrum Master, including leadership, coaching, facilitation, and fostering effective …

Transform legacy engineering with a proven, step-by-step approach—learn how to automate, adapt, and build a resilient, modern DevOps culture.

Explains how true self-management in Scrum requires active, disciplined effort from Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and Developers, not chaos or lack …

Agentic Agility is the ability for humans and AI to take intentional, adaptive action within socio-technical environments, enabling continuous …

Highlights the importance of technical knowledge for Scrum Masters, arguing that understanding team-specific skills is essential to effectively …

Stop chasing tech trends. Learn how evidence, visibility, and clarity empower tech leaders to make confident, strategic decisions—beyond the hype.

Highlights the most damaging traits of unskilled Scrum Masters, such as micromanagement and bossiness, and contrasts them with effective, facilitative …

Explains how self-managing teams thrive with autonomy balanced by structure, highlighting the need for clear goals, accountability, and alignment …

Learn practical Agile leadership and transformation strategies from Dr. Joanna Płaskonka and Martin Hinshelwood, including expert insights, Q&A, and …

Explore proven strategies from Azure DevOps for building resilient, reliable software systems—covering transparency, automation, telemetry, incident …

Tracking individual cycle time can harm team performance by encouraging task cherry-picking, reduced collaboration, and lower quality, without …

Covers key concepts of Sprint Reviews, interactive workshop delivery using Teams and Mural, technical challenges faced, participant feedback, and …

Stop chasing hype. Discover why context-driven tech choices—not the latest stack—lead to real, sustainable value for your team and business.

Learn how to overcome scaling challenges in product development by reducing technical debt, improving team alignment, and building sustainable, …

Learn how to achieve organisational agility by tailoring change to your unique context, building a guiding coalition, and engaging all stakeholders in …

CTOs: Stop chasing every trend. Learn to filter noise, focus on what matters, and lead with clarity for real impact in your tech organization.

Explores how empowering Agile teams to adapt their processes boosts flexibility, continuous improvement, collaboration, and maximises value and return …

Advanced 2-day course for experienced Scrum Masters covering servant leadership, conflict resolution, facilitation, metrics, and includes PSM II …

Fostering engagement, ownership, and high performance within agile teams.

Explains how Scrum reveals team dysfunctions by clarifying roles and accountability, highlighting its purpose to expose issues that hinder value …

Workshop for leaders and managers to build Agile leadership skills, support Agile teams, and drive organizational transformation, with PAL I …

Explains why the Scrum Master role requires experience and competence, debunking the myth of a "junior" Scrum Master and highlighting the need for …

Managing and reducing technical debt to maintain sustainable development velocity.

Learn how to choose an Agile coach who builds trust with teams and leadership, combining technical expertise, communication skills, and empathy for …

NKD Agility helped the Ghana Police Service drive organisational change using Scrum, enabling continuous improvement, transparency, and local …

Explores how teams misuse self-management to dodge alignment, clarifying that true autonomy requires accountability, shared goals, and adherence to …

Explains when a Scrum Master should remove impediments, focusing on team self-sufficiency, true impediments, and supporting team growth within Scrum …

Explores how adopting naked agility boosts engineering excellence, quality, and leadership by addressing technical debt, shifting left, and fostering …

Explores how fostering a culture of quality and engineering excellence across teams leads to better, safer products, highlighting the impact of …

Explores how optimising systems, reducing technical debt, and strong leadership improve engineering quality, productivity, and innovation while …

Explores how fostering a culture of quality and engineering excellence prevents failures, using Boeing and Volkswagen as examples, and highlights the …

Explores how DevOps transformation, refactoring, and ownership reduce technical debt, streamline development, and boost efficiency, team satisfaction, …

DevOps consulting enhances Agile by improving collaboration, accelerating delivery, and ensuring quality, making software development more efficient …

Explores how inefficient processes, not individual shortcomings, hinder developer productivity and performance, highlighting the need for systemic …

Scrum Masters with deep knowledge and competence enable teams to deliver better products, drive business outcomes, and foster real improvement in …

Evidence-Based Management (EBM) is a strategy for improving an organisation’s ability to deliver value by making decisions based on evidence, not …

Discover how Joanna’s technical expertise, clear teaching, and real-world Agile experience make her Scrum.Org classes at NKD Agility essential for …

Technical skills are not required to be a Scrum Master, but understanding technical, business, and organisational contexts helps Scrum Masters better …

Learn how effective Sprint planning boosts Agile team performance, with practical workshops, coaching, feedback, and adaptable methods for continuous …

Explores how practical, real-world Scrum training at Great Calm improved team collaboration, alignment, and continuous improvement across the …

Learn practical steps to help Scrum teams achieve continuous delivery, clarify business value, integrate feedback, and build empowerment within 90 …

Explains how a Scrum Master empowers Agile teams by bridging business, technical, and organisational needs to boost effectiveness, collaboration, and …

Mandating Agile or Scrum fails without cultural change; true agility requires trust, transparency, and a supportive environment, not just tools or …

Improve clarity and readiness with Backlog Refinement. Ensure work is well-defined, prioritised, and ready for execution.

Maximise team alignment and adaptability with the Daily Scrum. Inspect progress, adapt plans, and ensure focus on the Sprint Goal.

Explores common misconceptions about the Scrum Master role, highlighting the shift from tool admin to empowering leader who fosters team autonomy, …

Explores why building organisational capability, competence, and continuous learning is more effective than focusing solely on Agile roles, …

Explores the difference between adopting agile practices superficially and truly embracing agile values, highlighting the need for deep organisational …