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Hi! I'm an engineering leader and Venture CTO at BCG Digital Ventures where I focus on building high-performing teams who create quality, maintainable products. I have 12+ years of experience building cloud-based distributed systems in several different languages and technologies; across a range of industries such as geospatial, eCommerce, digital media, and finance. Previously at ThoughtWorks, 7digital, and Driftrock.

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Grow is a regular newsletter that delivers curated content for engineering leaders, managers, CTOs, and any tech-industry folks helping to grow people and products.

7 behaviours to avoid in a software architecture role

February 2, 2021

Over the years, I’ve had the opportunity to work in architecture roles alongside experienced software/technical/solution architects. Through observing others and my own trial and error, I’ve learned a little bit about what not to do in these roles (because it’s often easier to reflect on what didn’t work rather than what did). Even though I lean towards the idea that everyone should be architecting the system rather than having architects solely responsible - I recognise that some organisations are far from that ideal, and it’s those folks I hope find this list helpful...

Taking retrospectives to the rest of the business

October 13, 2017

The Product Development team at Driftrock has been using retrospectives for just over a year and it’s served us really well. In that time we’ve made loads of improvements and changes to how we work. Those changes range from small tweaks to our process to large uncertain ideas which we trial for a limited period. Our process for a retrospective is fairly typical (in my experience); we do them fortnightly and we rotate the facilitator role who runs the session how they see fit...