At the FT we have a role called Principal Engineer. Many companies do; however, the shape of the role at the FT is different than it is at many other companies, so in this post I explain what the role is like on my team, Customer Products. And if you…

Over the past six months, my group at the Financial Times has moved from project-based teams to durable teams. In this post I’ll explain why we made that move and how this is helping us deliver bigger and better things for our customers. We want to be able to deliver as much value as possible Our goal on Customer Products is to…

Last week, I wrote about how we worked out our tech strategy for FT.com. In this post I talk about the strategy itself: No next Next. And also about the Sugababes. The launch of “Next” hugely improved the user experience In October 2016, we replaced the old FT.com site with a new site, which we called “Next”. The previous…

When you are launching a new product to replace an existing one, it’s easy to rally behind the mission and make the right technical decisions that will get you over the line. …