How to create a strategy, with examples from how we created the FT.com tech strategy after the launch, delivered at LeadingEng London. Slides are in my write-up.
QConPlus is an online conference with the same talks as QCon. How to avoid entropy in your microservices architecture. Slides are in my QCon write-up.
How to avoid entropy in your microservices architecture, delivered at QCon London. Slides are in my write-up.
What strategy is, what good strategy looks like and what a good tech strategy is at LeadDev Together. Slides are in my write-up.
I faciliated a panel on tech strategy at LeadDev Live. I've done a write up, with a link to the video.
I gave a keynote at CTO craft conference about why and how we moved to durable teams, and what we've learned, one year on. Video and slides are in my write-up.
A panel about technical leadership, with the excellent Omosola Odetunde and Pat Kua. I've written some notes about what we covered.
A replay of my tech strategy talk, followed by a live Q&A, for a remote Tech Nottingham event. I've done a brief write-up.
How to create a technical strategy after launching a new product. Delivered at Continuous Lifecycle London.
Video and slides are in my write-up.
How coding in the open can help speed up all stages of the release cycle. Delivered at Pipeline conference.
Video, slides and a great sketchnote are in my write-up.
What coding in the open means and its benefits to government and industry. Delivered at Turing Fest.
Video is on their site (you have to register), and slides are on SlideShare.
An introduction to coding in the open and its benefits and challenges, and what my plans are for government Open Source as Open Source Lead. Delivered at GOTO Berlin.
Video is on YouTube and slides are on SlideShare.
An introduction to the web ops skills that will help you be a better developer. Delivered at FFConf.
Slides and links are posted here and video is on YouTube.
I gave a keynote at VelocityEU about the work I've been leading at GDS on building a PaaS for government.
Video is on YouTube and the slides are here.I delivered a talk at UCISA, the conference for the Universities and Colleges Information Systems Association about the work I've been leading on investigating a PaaS for government. There is a video which you can find on this page (you may have to register).
My QCon talk on how we do DevOps on GOV.UK. Video is here, and the slides are on Slideshare There is also a nice write-up of it on the InfoQ site. It was listed as one of the top 5 presentations (edit: sadly link is now dead) from the event.
A talk about how we do infrastructure as code on GOV.UK and my work on vCloud Tools, our open-source tools for automating provisioning. Video is here and slides are on Slideshare.
I gave a talk at the delightful Scotch on the Rocks in Edinburgh (sadly, no longer running) on my work on vCloud Tools – what we built, how we built it, some hard problems we faced and some tips on how to automate your own infrastructure. Slides are here.
I gave an Ignite talk based on my roof bug-fixing blog post.
I co-delivered this keynote about GDS at XPDay 2012, and we were invited back to deliver it again at the Edinburgh BCS.
Slides from Edinburgh.
A workshop showing how to create three different kinds of visualisations in three different JavaScript visualisation libraries. I delivered this at SPA 2012. It received very high feedback scores and I was invited to deliver it again at miniSPA (the six top sessions from SPA) 2012.
A talk outlining some contraindications for Agile adoption. I delivered this in 2009 at XPDay, one of the main pro-Agile conferences, and it was very popular!
I am a technical director and software developer living and working in London.
I am Technical Director for Customer Products at the Financial Times, leading on the award-winning FT.com website and the FT iPhone and Android apps.
I write about tech, leadership and tech leadership on my blog, JFDI. I also tweet, occasionally code, and play pool.
You can see a slightly longer bio or have a look at my CV for more.