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The Future of Work Scotland team are delighted to be welcoming back Martin Hinselwood. In this session Martin will give one of his most informative and entertaining talks!

Even those that developed and industrialised waterfall no longer believe it has value, and they still struggle with the tyranny of Taylorism.

While 81% of all development shops say that they are adopting agile, the reality is far from it; only 22% do short iterations, 16% have ordered backlogs, & 13% do retrospectives! They still lack feedback loops.

This talk will take a walk through history from 1890 through to the present and follow the rise and eventual fall of Waterfall in the very organization that developed it; the US Military-Industrial Complex. From communities through the industrial revolution, mechanization of the workforce, the first MBA's, the pursuit of hierarchical plan-driven solutions, and bureaucracy to the realization of reality and the struggle to change.

Learning Objectives:

What can our attendees expect to take away from the session?

1. Realisation that departments, best practices, and up-front planning come from a bygone era

2. 6 Core statements of what it means to be agile

Here's some background on our amazing guest speaker for this session:

Martin Hinshelwood is a Professional Scrum Trainer and Microsoft MVP:Development Technologies. He has been Consulting, Coaching, and Training in DevOps & Agility since 2010 and has been delivering software since 2000.

Over the last 10 years, Martin has helped organisations including Microsoft, UK Government, Vodafone, Schlumberger, & Kongsberg Digital. Martin has trained 1000+ people in 37 countries around the world. He is based in Glasgow & Cancun and offers Scrum training courses with certification all over the world.

He trains and coaches Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Development Teams and organisations in their transition to Scrum, Agile, & DevOps.

Martin can provide private onsite training for your company anywhere in the world.