The long read
How blockchain can be used for improving security

How blockchain can be used for improving security

Andrew Smith
21 Mar 2023

At the heart of security within the financial services industry is the good old centralised Public K...

Agile Series: Avoid management speak

Agile Series: Avoid management speak

Andrew Smith
16 Mar 2023

One of my pet peeves, and I think a common source of hatred across most engineering teams, is using ...

Agile Series: SAS Rogue Heroes - the original agile team

Agile Series: SAS Rogue Heroes - the original agile team

Andrew Smith
23 Nov 2022

Currently airing on the BBC is a superb series that takes you through the origins of the SAS (Specia...

Agile Series: Getting out of the way

Agile Series: Getting out of the way

Andrew Smith
04 Aug 2022

As a leader in more than just technology, we must know when to get out of the way of our teams and c...

Agile Series: Diversity of thought

Agile Series: Diversity of thought

Andrew Smith
30 Mar 2022

Diversity is a big issue, one that challenges most organisations, and with ESG becoming increasingly...

Agile Series: Building infrastructure

Agile Series: Building infrastructure

Andrew Smith
29 Sep 2021

Recently I have been approached by a few people that agree with all my previous posts on agile, howe...

Agile series: Evolved roadmaps

Agile series: Evolved roadmaps

Andrew Smith
08 Jul 2021

In my last post within this series, I looked at roadmaps and how to build them in an agile environme...

Agile Series: Building roadmaps

Agile Series: Building roadmaps

Andrew Smith
14 May 2021

The first, and probably most important thing to stress here is, you are building product roadmaps. T...

Agile Series: Including risk, compliance and internal audit

Agile Series: Including risk, compliance and internal audit

Andrew Smith
05 May 2021

This maybe the most 'controversial' article within this series, but it's potentially the one that co...

Agile Series: DevOps

Agile Series: DevOps

Andrew Smith
15 Apr 2021

In all of the articles that make up this “Agile Series”, a fair few of the same themes keep on flowi...

Agile Series: Enabling agile with your software architecture

Agile Series: Enabling agile with your software architecture

Andrew Smith
31 Mar 2021

If you have the wrong software architecture, then your ability to really implement an agile engineer...

Agile Series: Motivating Engineers

Agile Series: Motivating Engineers

Andrew Smith
18 Mar 2021

If you have spent most of your working life outside any form of IT department or engineering team, y...