At Metro our development project has multiple product owners who each have their own backlog and want to prioritise them separately using Greenhopper’s drag and drop interface. We didn’t want to create multiple projects to enable this and Greenhopper’s multiple backlogs support for a single project is something that had previously eluded me. Ade Shokoya who was our business […]
Now that we have been running with Kanban for over three months it is amazing how much faster the team has become.
I spent this morning running the PageSpeed Insights tool in Google Chrome over this website and it came back with some good tips on how to speed up WordPress Apache to make this site run faster. I thought I would share how I approached making the recommended changes below. The first critical issue that it threw up […]
I believe that by ensuring the right business idea validation we can reduce the waste that occurs at the earliest stages of new business model generation.
Learning from self organising around a clear goal and solidarity against technical debt helped the group turn into a high performing team.
As I previously wrote Metro decided to use the WordPress VIP platform for their CMS and front end, this post will detail how we set about the initial part of the project to give it the best chance of success. Initially it was pretty daunting looking forwards 12 months with the sheer scale of the […]
Metro came in top of Buzzfeeds best error pages on the internet and I thought I here is the story behind this momentous event.
Why Metro decided to choose WordPress VIP as their CMS and front end platform including a few things to watch out for if you take this path.
Over the past 12 months I have been working with an amazing team of people at Metro the largest free daily newspaper in the world to migrate their existing bespoke CMS and move them to WordPress with hosting provided by WordPress VIP. The press were invited in this week and the management team started to […]
I have been working on migrating a website I did for a friend a while ago from an old ASP.NET application I built to my WordPress Amazon EC2 Instance over the last few weekends as the old server we were using for hosting is being retired. I have been working on a temporary domain whilst […]