Prime mover in the ABC (Agility For Big Companies) open source initiative.

Founder of AInklings, the premier AI-enabled Interactive Books service provider.

Specialising in writing prompts for ChatGPT

Sharing Quintessence with the World

Helping organisations open up to awesomely powerful new ideas in: software engineering and product development; change and digital Agile transformation; developer motivation.• Established new global discipline for improving organisational performance (Organisational Psychotherapy).• Published foundational books on Organisational Psychotherapy.• Profoundly influences the international software development community through books, articles, posts, white papers, new methods and tools, and social media (14,500+ Twitter followers).

Software Delivery Specialists

Software Delivery Researcher

Tech Lead, Architect and Designer for hot new tech startup. Python, AWS, REDIS, Javascript, Bootstrap 5.

AIOps Software Product Vendor; core tech: AI, ML, LAMP stack, GitLab, Java, JavaScript, RabbitMQ.• Transformed the company’s approach to product development, reducing costs by £4M (annual, compounding) by disrupting processes, increasing developer motivation,, productivity, morale, skills and engagement.• Injected operational rigour into DevOps and QA processes by trailblazing industry standard best practices.• Formulated recruitment & skills development programmes, winning CEO support and £100K additional funding. Recruited new developers. Upskilled the team.

Consultancy specialising in software and product development methods; developer motivation; accelerated software delivery; disruption of the status quo.• Coached senior management of numerous client companies in developer engagement, morale and motivation.• Redesigned processes for a UK IT company to improve the productivity of 25+ engineering staff by 30%.• Educated engineering staff across Europe through public and private speaking and lecturing engagements.

World leading Intellectual Property (IP) management and technology company.• Transformed the company’s approach to product development via Product Aikido, increasing product engineering speed of delivery and productivity by 50% and predictability by more than 25%. • Introduced disruptive best practices, uplifting developer motivation, saving a recurring annual £1.2m.• Coached senior management in product development methods, developer engagement, morale and motivation.

A start-up intent on disrupting the world’s news publishing industry.• Conceived and implemented a proof-of-concept for an innovative approach to sourcing and selling news.• Created sales presentations and pitched to numerous venture capitalists, angels, investors and industry pundits. • Built early prototype/demonstrator using LAMP, Cloud, Clojure and CouchDB.

Major British newspaper publisher, and a wholly owned subsidiary of News Corp. Publisher of The Times, The Sunday Times, the News Of The World, and The Sun newspapers, plus numerous subsidiary publications.• Increased web development teams’ productivity by 25% by introducing industry best practices and raising staff morale, motivation and engagement, and saving £2.5M (annual, recurring) in development costs.• Coached senior management in Agile Transformation, developer engagement, morale and motivation.• Streamlined interactions between the Newsroom, Business Analysts, developers and Production Operations.

Embedded systems development company providing integrated development services for the Internet-of-Things.• Managed organisational build including processes, business model, strategy, marketing, sales and legal.• Won 6 major IoT projects totalling £250k revenue.• Created embedded (IoT) Agile development policies and processes; built and led development projects; pitched and delivered projects; managed bids, contracts and customer accounts.

First 100% Agile software house and consultancy in Europe.

Europe's first Agile software house and software engineering consultancy start-up. Spin-out from Sun Microsystems UK Java Centre.