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NKD Agility. Your Partner in Engineering Excellence

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Partnering for Engineering Excellence and Technical Leadership | Martin Hinshelwood

👋 Hi, I’m Martin Hinshelwood from NKD Agility  , and in this video, I wrap up our series on engineering excellence and technical leadership by discussing how Naked Agility can be your partner in achieving these goals. From addressing poor-quality products to shifting left across all aspects of development, I’ll show you how building a culture of quality and accountability can unlock value for your customers and your organization.

📌 Chapters:

  1. 00:00 – Introduction: Why Engineering Excellence Matters
  2. 02:30 – The High Cost of Poor-Quality Products
  3. 05:00 – Shifting Left: Building Skills and Capabilities in Teams
  4. 08:45 – Managing vs. Paying Back Technical Debt
  5. 12:00 – Creating a Culture of Quality and Transparency
  6. 15:30 – How Naked Agility Can Help You Achieve Engineering Excellence

🎯 Who This Video is For:

  • Organizations seeking to elevate their engineering teams
  • Engineering leaders and teams aiming to improve quality and reduce technical debt
  • Product owners focused on aligning engineering practices with customer value
  • Businesses ready to invest in a culture of excellence and accountability

📖 What You’ll Learn:

  • The hidden costs of poor-quality products, from brand damage to customer loss
  • The importance of shifting left in areas like testing, user experience, security, and architecture
  • Why paying back technical debt is more effective than managing it
  • How transparency and accountability contribute to a culture of quality
  • How Naked Agility supports organizations in creating value through engineering excellence

💡 Key Takeaways:

  • Poor quality products damage your brand and cost more than you think.
  • Shifting left empowers engineering teams to make better decisions earlier.
  • Technical debt must be addressed transparently to foster continuous improvement.
  • A culture of quality starts with technical leadership and shared accountability.

At NKD Agility  , we specialize in helping organizations build technical leadership and engineering excellence to deliver better value to their customers. Let’s work together to create the systems, culture, and practices that enable your success. Visit us today to learn more!

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Naked agility can be your partner in creating engineering excellence and technical leadership within your organisation. In the last few videos, we’ve talked about a number of different ways or things that we focus on that are part of that story. We talked about that high cost of bad quality, of mediocre product—right? Not even mediocre, poor quality product. There’s lots of poor quality products out there that have a massive cost, particularly in your brand recognition. Right? People don’t want to use products that they have an image in their head to be of poor quality.

We talked a lot about shifting left and the different components that we would shift left. Not just testing and test automation, but continuous integration, continuous delivery. We talked about user experience shifting left. We talked about security shifting left, architecture shifting left. All of these things need to move as close to the engineering team that’s making the decisions, the people that are making the decisions and doing the work. All of those things, those skills, those capabilities, those need to be built up in those teams in order for you to move towards this idea of engineering excellence.

Right? We need to not manage technical debt but pay it back. Deal with it. Deal with the technical debt when it happens. Own up to it when we make a mistake. Be transparent and open about what the problem was and what we’re going to do about it. Build that culture of quality. Build that culture of engineering excellence within our organisation. Your purpose is creating value for your customers. Our purpose is value creation for you through building the technical leadership and engineering excellence that enables your value creation. And that’s what naked agility can help you with.

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