Chris CollingridgeinAuto Trader WorkshopMeasuring design team healthIn amongst all the busyness of activities and initiatives that help us improve, it’s often difficult to get an overall sense of where a…Aug 1, 2022Aug 1, 2022
Chris CollingridgeinAuto Trader WorkshopGoal setting for software teams: 99% of your problems are goal problemsIf you work in any sort of software development role, you’ll be familiar with disagreements. Disagreements about architecture, about what…Nov 30, 2021Nov 30, 2021
Chris CollingridgeWalks to things on top of hillsThe COVID-19 pandemic brought many challenges, changes, and to many people great heartache and loss. It changed all of our lives in…Sep 11, 2021Sep 11, 2021
Chris CollingridgeinAuto Trader WorkshopDriven by Data — AT Design TalksBack in January 2021, our design team hosted our first AT Design Talks event, which featured a wide range of lightning talks by members of…Aug 17, 2021Aug 17, 2021
Chris CollingridgeinAuto Trader WorkshopWhat’s in a name? Defining design leadership rolesWe’ve recently posted a new job ad. “Big deal!” you might think, “everyone posts jobs ads all the time!”. And if you’ve been following life…Jul 7, 2021Jul 7, 2021
Chris CollingridgeinAuto Trader WorkshopHow system modelling can make better softwareSomething we’ve been talking about quite a lot on recent projects at Auto Trader is the underlying models of parts of our product…May 18, 2020May 18, 2020
Chris CollingridgeinAuto Trader WorkshopSharing the magic: Distributed roles in the flexible tribeRecently I wrote about how we were exploring new ways of working, from squads to swarms. If you haven’t read that one yet, it’s worth a…Jan 10, 2020Jan 10, 2020
Chris CollingridgeinAuto Trader WorkshopFrom squads to swarmsThere is much conversation about how work should be defined, scoped, and delivered, and how teams should be organised around that.Nov 11, 20192Nov 11, 20192
Chris CollingridgeinAuto Trader WorkshopI’ll pass: Why there’s a better way than automating your handoffsEvery now and then I see a tweet, a LinkedIn post, or get an email inviting me to do something I never want to do, using some product or…Jul 25, 2019Jul 25, 2019
Chris CollingridgeinAuto Trader WorkshopDoing the hard yardsMost people who come into design do so through a desire to make things better, improve people’s lives, and create things they can be proud…Jun 4, 2019Jun 4, 2019