Reflections on building a coherent engineering culture out of several companies brought together under one roof, and why culture matters more than architecture in the early days of a merger.

A foreword framing the approach to building a technology strategy—one that enables alignment, focus and organisational success through clear vision and actionable tenets.

For the past four years I have been working in an editorial environment Metro, the third largest daily UK newspaper. Over this time I have been amazed at the number of times that serious change has been attempted and failed.

For 275 days after his birth my son Jack lived in the intensive care units of various London hospitals.

Over the past four years at Metro we have delivered one replatform, four redesigns, multiple native apps and built and sold an online casino.

For the last two years I have been focused on the design, build and growth of Metro.co.uk utilising the WordPress VIP platform.

Over the past 12 months Metro has been on an amazing growth curve.

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” Mahatma Gandhi Making change a habit is a powerful way of not just creating but maintaining an agile mindset.

I had the pleasure of spending some time at the DMGT Technology Summer School with Bill Raduchel .

Wendy Lea the CEO of Get Satisfaction gave a presentation at the DMGT Technology Summer School on "The voice of the customer".

Heidi Rozen gave a great talk at the DMGT Technology Summer School simply titled "Failure".

I have spent the last three years at Metro constantly tweaking our development process to fit our environment and teams maturity.

In the past year I have run two large successful agile projects that have delivered software using the Scrum methodology to build a minimum viable pro...

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.

This is the second time that I have been through the process of writing a story of how I think that the company I work for should evolve over the next 18 months.

The initial phase of the responsive redesign of metro.co.uk was a project that spanned 14 two weeks sprints.

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...

I was very fortunate to spend two days at LeWeb London 2012 on the 19th & 20th June this year.

Recently I have been going through a process of looking 18 months into the future and as part of that have written a story of to illustrate where we are going and how I am going to help them get there.

We have been recruiting a Business Analyst for a big project that we have coming up at work.

It started with a conversation regarding Node.js as one of my developers has been using it to write a RESTful API.

I have been working in software development for ten years and the one constant throughout my whole career is change.