There isn’t only one way to be a great technical leader. To be a great technical leader you need to play to your strengths. This shows you how to use the People, Process, Technology framework to identify your strengths and explains how using your strengths is best way to do your best work. Slides on slideshare, write-up to follow.
I joined Mal Minhas and Chris Evans on a very interesting panel hosted by Jon Topper to talk about AI in SaaS; blessing or bandwagon? Write up.
I joined Luca Rossi on his podcast to talk about strategy, leadership and my own journey in tech. Write up.
I joined Pat Kua on his podcast to talk about strategy vs tactics, how to manage your time as an engineering leader and about my role at Kooth. Write up.
Tools, techniques and actionable advice to help you create and deliver an effective strategy. Slides and video in my write up.
A fireside chat with Emma Hopkinson-Spark about building and executing strategy. You can watch the video and read a write-up.
A discussion with Neal Ford on technical strategy; what it is, how to create it and how to get buy-in. Watch here if you have an O'Reilly account.
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 and video is on Vimeo.
QConPlus is an online conference with the same talks as QCon. How to avoid entropy in your microservices architecture. Slides and video are in my QCon write-up.
How to avoid entropy in your microservices architecture, delivered at QCon London. Slides and video 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.
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.
Talk about GDS at the Edinburgh BCS. Slides.
Keynote about GDS at XPDay 2012. Slides.
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!
Strategic technology leader. CTO at Kooth, a company specialising in digital mental health. Previously Technical Director at the Financial Times, Technical Architect at the Government Digital Service.
I speak at conferences and write about strategy and tech leadership on my blog, JFDI.
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