NKD Agility. Your Partner in Engineering Excellence
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.
Building a Culture of Quality
Building a Culture of Quality and Engineering Excellence | Martin Hinshelwood 👋 Hi, I’m Martin Hinshelwood from NKD Agility , and in this video, I explore how to build a culture of quality within your organization. Delivering great products isn’t just about tools or processes—it’s about fostering technical leadership, engineering excellence, and shared accountability across your teams. Using real-world examples, including lessons from Boeing and Volkswagen, I’ll show you why culture is the foundation of innovation and trust.
Technical Debt Management for Long Term Quality
Understanding and Managing Technical Debt: Lessons from Azure DevOps | Martin Hinshelwood 👋 Hi, I’m Martin Hinshelwood from NKD Agility , and in this video, I break down the concept of technical debt, how it affects your team’s ability to deliver value, and why paying it back is essential. Using real-world examples, including insights from the Azure DevOps team, I’ll show you how managing technical debt can transform your product development process and unlock long-term productivity gains.
Code Reviews for Quality Assurance
Rethinking Code Reviews: From Manual Checks to Pre-Reviewed Excellence Hi, I’m Martin Hinshelwood, and today I want to discuss a topic that often sparks debate: code reviews. Traditionally, code reviews are seen as a way to improve quality and reduce defects by having multiple people review the code before it’s merged. While this has value, as we embrace shift-left practices, there’s a new perspective to consider: pre-reviewed code.
Building a culture of engineering excellence
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Bad code isn't technical debt. It's incompetence
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Security by Design Building Secure Software
Shift Left: Building Quality and Security From the Start Hi, I’m Martin Hinshelwood, and today I want to explore the concept of “shifting left” in modern software engineering—a principle that’s all about building quality, security, and reliability into your software from the very start. It’s a transformative approach that not only enhances your product but also revolutionizes how your team works. Let me share some insights, personal experiences, and practical advice to help you embrace this mindset.
NKD Agility: Your partner in developing engineering excellence
Performance Engineering and Testing in Production: A Modern Approach | Martin Hinshelwood 📍 📍 Naked Agility can be your partner in creating engineering excellence and technical leadership within your organization. In the last few videos we’ve talked about a number of different ways or things that we focus on that are part of, part of that story. We talked about that, that High cost of, of, of bad quality of mediocre product, right?
The superpower of quality engineering
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Building a culture of Quality
Building a culture of quality | Martin Hinshelwood 📍 📍 Building a culture of quality within your organisation is absolutely not something that you can do on your own. It’s not something that any individual can do. Each individual within the context of your organisation needs to be able to Demonstrate their own technical excellence, their technical leadership, their, their engineering capability if they demonstrate their own other people around them will see a way of behaving that.
Missed opportunities, the hidden cost of technical debt
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Technical Debt Management for Long-Term Quality
Technical Debt Management for Long-Term Quality | Martin Hinshelwood 📍 📍 Technical debt is a huge problem for, for organizations. I want to quickly define technical debt. Technical debt is
Technical debt costs you more than you think
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Unleash your team's full potential
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Code Reviews for Quality Assurance
Code reviews for quality assurance | Martin Hinshelwood 📍 📍 Are multiple schools of thought. One school of thought is that code reviews help us improve our code quality, help reduce defects because we get multiple eyes looking at the product. But I think that’s only part of the story. As we shift left, another school of thought starts to come to the forefront, which is our code should be pre reviewed.
Redefining test driven development
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The Hidden Costs of Poor Quality Code—and How to Turn It Into a Superpower
The Hidden Costs of Poor Quality Code—and How to Turn It Into a Superpower Hi, I’m Martin Hinshelwood, and today I want to dive into a topic that’s close to my heart: the true cost of poor-quality code. Over the years, I’ve seen countless organizations grapple with this issue, and the impacts aren’t just financial—they’re deeply ingrained in productivity, team morale, and even brand reputation. Let’s unpack this and talk about how improving code quality can become your organization’s superpower.
DevOps Migration. Lack of Expertise
Migrating to Azure DevOps can be a one-time, complex project that often requires specialized expertise. In this video, I discuss why it’s typically better to bring in experienced professionals for your migration rather than trying to build skills in-house. Migration is often a deep, technical process, especially when handling data inconsistencies or navigating older TFS setups with unique quirks.
DevOps Migration. Incomplete Migrations
In this video, I address a common concern in Azure DevOps migrations: the fear of incomplete migrations and data loss. With experience in hundreds of migrations using Microsoft’s database import tool, I can confidently say that data loss is extremely rare, and any limitations or adjustments are fully manageable with the right preparation.
DevOps Migration. Compatibility Problems
In this video, we address compatibility concerns when migrating from TFS on-premises to Azure DevOps in the cloud. Many worry about potential issues, but the reality is that everything that works on-prem works in Azure DevOps—it’s the other way around where limitations may arise. We’ll go over what to consider for older versions of TFS (like TFS 2010) and tackle how to handle customizations, plugins, and extensions in the new cloud environment.
