Jenny Martin
Jenny is an independent trainer, facilitator and coach in collaborative software development techniques and team development, specialising in leadership, accelerated Agile delivery and public speaking.
Jenny believes that great teams are built on collaboration, shared responsibility and by embracing individuality and diversity. Jenny is active in the software development community as an expert in team collaboration and effectiveness and a regular speaker at events across Europe. She has 20+ years of leadership experience delivering large scale projects on multiple platforms, tools and technologies in the customer loyalty, retail and finance sectors.
Talks I've Given
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Words Matter. Build Team Relationships and Push Through Conflicts by Practicing Nonviolent Communication
Featuring Jenny Martin
Join Jenny Martin and learn how to practice nonviolent communication, build trust within your team, develop better quality relationships and resolve conflicts.
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Workshop: From Failures to Hypotheses, Examples to Evidence
Featuring Russ Miles and Jenny Martin
Join Russ and Jenny for this collaborative session, exploring example driven operational testing and chaos engineering. Use real world examples and failure modes to vividly imagine how things could go wrong in your production environments, and generate hypotheses and experiments to help explore...
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Knowing Me Knowing you.... Ahaaaaa!
Featuring Jenny Martin
In our constant pursuit of success and self-improvement, we find ourselves focusing on our weaknesses and comparing ourselves to our peers.
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Workshop: 'OOPSI Mapping Workshop' at P3X
Featuring Jenny Martin
OOPSI Mapping is a collaborative agile analysis and testing technique. It’s a mash up of Chris Matt’s Feature Injection and Matt Wynne’s Example Mapping. OOPSI is an outside-in process, standing for Outcome, Output, Process, Scenarios, Inputs. It gives our discovery activities some structure and...
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Lego Serious Play Workshop
Featuring Jenny Martin
Who do you deeply feel you are, and deeply strive to be?
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Knowing Me Knowing you.... Ahaaaaa!
Featuring Jenny Martin
In our constant strive for success and self improvement, we find ourselves focusing on our weaknesses and comparing ourselves to our peers.
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Getting the Balance Right with Collaboration Driven Development
Featuring Jenny Martin
According to various unsubstantiated historical reports, 20 years ago we had BIG up front analysis and design done by architects and analysts working in ivory towers, stroking their beards and doing lots and lots of diagrams.
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Scrum Event & Jenny Martin presents - Death by User Stories
Featuring Jenny Martin
In Order to deliver business value as early as possible, as an overwhelmed cross-functional team member, I Need 6589 disembodied user stories sitting in a backlog in JIRA, like I need a hole in the head!
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Oopsi Mapping workshop
Featuring Pete Buckney and Jenny Martin
Are you interested in how to start with OOPSI? Join Jenny Martin and Pete Buckney for this month's BDD London!
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Collaboration Driven Development outside in – peeling away the layers with Jenny Martin!
Featuring Jenny Martin
Come and join Jenny to explore the many different heartbeats of iterations and collaboration you have within your organisations, and the different levels of decomposition that happen as we move from the problem to the solution domain.
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Collaboration Driven Development outside in – peeling away the layers
Featuring Jenny Martin
According to various unsubstantiated historical reports, 20 years ago we had BIG up front analysis and design done by architects and analysts working in ivory towers stroking their beards and doing lots and lots of diagrams.
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Death by User Stories
Featuring Jenny Martin
In order to deliver business value as early as possible
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Death by User Stories
Featuring Jenny Martin
Do you find that once you start examining them, user stories grow and multiply until you can’t fit them in your delivery iteration? Are you drowning and struggling to see the big picture? Are you lost in user story hell and don’t know how to get out? In this talk I’d like to introduce the OOPSI...
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Keynote: A BDD Manifesto...
Featuring Jenny Martin
Scrum is great for telling us what roles we need on our teams and how we should run our daily meetings, but doesn't actually help us know how to collaborate effectively.
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Analysis and Synthesis - or how to get the balance right
Featuring Pete Buckney and Jenny Martin
Join Jenny Martin and Pete Buckney at another of Sky's West is Best Tech Talk! They will be there to discuss the modern analysis paradigm, and why it is still so easy to end up in user story hell or spend years building the wrong thing.
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BDDx Unconference Kick-Off (in Ctrl)
Featuring Chris Young, Pete Buckney and Jenny Martin
BDDx Unconference Kick-off, with a presentation of ideas and thoughts gathered throughout the conference.
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Analysis and Synthesis - or how to get the balance right
Featuring Pete Buckney and Jenny Martin
Jenny and Pete take a critical look at the modern analysis paradigm, and wonder why it is still so easy to end up in user story hell or spend years building the wrong thing.
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Keeping it Real [Workshop]
Featuring Jenny Martin and Pete Buckney
It’s all in the data. Join us for a hands-on workshop exploring techniques to accelerate delivery using real-world data examples.
BDD practices help us involve the Business but can still be prone to misunderstandings and ambiguities. By turning examples from abstract to concrete at every step of...
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The Power of Examples - Part One
Featuring Jenny Martin and Pete Buckney
Examples are powerful. We all use examples every day to help others understand what we mean. Our most valuable team members are able to express complex technical concepts to business people and also translate business ideas into comprehensive technical solutions. Those people tend to naturally...
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The Power of Examples - Part Two
Featuring Jenny Martin and Pete Buckney
Examples are powerful. We all use examples every day to help others understand what we mean. Our most valuable team members are able to express complex technical concepts to business people and also translate business ideas into comprehensive technical solutions. Those people tend to naturally...
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Impact Mapping
Featuring Jenny Martin
Impact Mapping is a visual mind-mapping technique, which can be transformational in bridging the gap between technical and business teams.
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Examples Soup-to-Nuts - from Ideas to Automation
Featuring Jenny Martin and Pete Buckney
Are you interested in exploring real-life examples of BDD techniques and processes, worked start to finish? In this interactive workshop the Sparkle team will share their application of BDD techniques, from ideas to automation.
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Successful Collaboration and MOFF - Applied
Featuring Chris Priest, Jenny Martin and Pete Buckney
In this talk Jenny Martin, Chris Priest and Pete Buckney (The Sparkle Team) share their experience on a government-funded R&D retail project with Sparkle CS and their application of BDD and agile testing techniques.
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