If your engineering organisation is busy but not delivering, the problem is rarely the engineers. It’s the system they work inside — and that system is a leadership responsibility. This library is the working record of twenty-plus years spent fixing those systems: what worked, what failed, and why.
The current focus is Agentic Engineering — the disciplined application of AI agents within accountable, observable and testable engineering systems.
Articles
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Adaptive Operating Model
Product Development
Why Most Companies Operating Models Fail in Dynamic Markets
4 Dec 2025
Article
Evidence Based Leadership
Agile Strategy
The Estimation Trap: How Tracking Accuracy Undermines Trust, Flow, and Value in Software Delivery
22 Sep 2025
Article
Lean Principles
Kanban
Flow of Value vs Flow of Work – Misnomer or Useful Shorthand?
15 Sep 2025
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Operational Practices
Flow Efficiency
Estimating Better in an Overloaded System Is a Poor Man’s Strategy
8 Sep 2025
Videos
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Software Development
Technical Leadership
Why Outsourcing DevOps Fails, and How Real Engineering Excellence Starts With Your Team
15 Sep 2025
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Organisational Culture
Personal
Why Big Bang Rewrites Fail: How Sustainable Change and Engineering Excellence Transform Legacy Systems
8 Sep 2025
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Azure DevOps
Tool
Why Azure DevOps Wins for Governance, Security, and Scale, Right Out of the Box
1 Sep 2025
Video
Decision Making
Azure DevOps
Stop Guessing: How to Make Work Visible and Drive Real Improvement with Azure DevOps Flow Metrics
25 Aug 2025
Video
Shift Left Strategy
Engineering Practices
Stop Testing Quality In: How Shifting Left Builds Better Software, Faster
18 Aug 2025
Video
Tool
Practice
Still Deploying Manually? Why Automation Is the Bare Minimum for Modern Engineering (and Your Business Survival)
11 Aug 2025
Guides
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Case study
Agile Transformation
Social Technologies
Policing for the 21st Century: How NKD Agility Enabled Organisational Change in the Ghana Police Service
10 Jun 2025
Case study
Team Collaboration
Mentoring
Beyond Training: How NKD Agility’s Mentorship Model Transformed a Product Management Team Across Borders
2 Jun 2025
Case study
Azure DevOps
One Engineering System
From Fragmentation to Flow: How NKD Agility Helped SLB Consolidate Systems and Standardize Engineering Practice Across 800+ Teams
2 Jun 2025
Case study
Software Development
Engineering Excellence
Engineering Excellence in Action: How NKD Agility Helped SLB Streamline Build and Release Across 90 Teams and 13 Countries
2 Jun 2025
Engineering Notes
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Engineering note
Tool
Technical Mastery
Leveraging AI Embeddings for Related Content Classification
4 Jun 2025
Engineering note
Software Development
Tool
Convert Legacy Projects and ASP.NET MVC Apps to SDK-Style with Confidence
29 May 2025
Engineering note
Artificial Intelligence
Personal
How I Used Generative AI to Transform Site Tagging and Categories
15 May 2025
Engineering note
Technical Mastery
Troubleshooting
Building a Resilient Token Server: Engineering for Flow, Fault Tolerance, and Speed
8 May 2025
Newsletters
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Newsletter
Software Development
Engineering Excellence
Engineering Excellence: The Quiet Discipline Behind Great Teams
12 Nov 2025
Newsletter
Software Development
Pragmatic Thinking
Martin Hinshelwood in EST: Book Expert Support for Engineering Excellence
7 Aug 2025
Newsletter
Software Development
Technical Leadership
Break organisational silos and stop tolerating bad branching models
17 Jul 2025
Newsletter
Engineering Excellence
Operational Practices
Why Resilience Demands More Than Survival
12 Jun 2025
Newsletter
Agentic Agility
Agentic Engineering
Agentic Agility: Why You Need Both Human and AI Agency
15 May 2025