After three attempts I've given up trying to write a 2019 review post. It has been a year of arkward team conversations and JFDI. It hasn't all been bad, the teams I have worked on have been resilient, held the course, and ultimately got the right re...

Sometimes on a service team, the ebb and flow of sprints will break down. Largely I've seen this happen because the team is caught up in the now and loses focus on the next. The now is important, but the now quickly becomes yesterday. A team needs to...

It seems odd that the last post on my blog was about going from ghost to Jekyll over a year old! That isn't to say I haven't blogged, On a team who is responsible for accessibility? working with templates What is a component in a design system? Story...

One of the things I love most about Newcastle is the great community of meet-ups. As well as frontend NE there is Sunderland Digital, NUX Newcastle, JavaScript NE, Ladies of Code and PHP NE to name but a few. (You can find more at https://www.techdia...

When I started talking to Gavin, who ran both DIBI and Industry Conf, he said that “running a conference will be one of the most challenging things you ever do”, he wasn’t wrong. It seemed a natural progression from running a regular meet-up but I ma...

If you missed it I did some thoughts from Meetup #1. for this meet-up the focus was navigation. The day was split into two parts — in the morning Craig did a deep dive into the agent service for Bereavement payment service. He talked about how they h...