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We’ve gone Backstage — This is how we use it on our Digital Platform

Hi — I am Rob Hornby (Product Lead) for the John Lewis & Partners Digital Platform. Today I am giving a overview of our new Backstage…

6 min readAug 10, 2023

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We’ve gone Backstage — This is how we use it on our Digital Platform

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How we support a 24 by 7 Retail business

We recently put this together internally to explain to anyone joining the organisation the expectations we had around in and out of hours…

4 min readJun 2, 2023

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How we support a 24 by 7 Retail business

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Platform Team Trap — Balancing Operational Work and New Capabilities

A Platform team has it’s work cut out to ensure it continues to maintain the Platform while continuing to keep pace with the market and…

3 min readApr 14, 2023

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Platform Team Trap — Balancing Operational Work and New Capabilities

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Rob Hornby

Creating Your Product OKR’s With ChatGPT

I’m a Product Lead working on a Digital Platform, we use Objectives and Key results (OKR’s)to frame the outcomes we want from our work on…

3 min readJan 27, 2023

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Creating Your Product OKR’s With ChatGPT

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Managing Work in Slack Using Emoji

Here at John Lewis & Partners, the John Lewis Digital Platform team looks after one of the busiest and most subscribed to channels in…

3 min readApr 13, 2022

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Managing Work in Slack Using Emoji

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Pandemic Home Working

The Pandemic is over (well that’s the official line…), I’ve been working from home now for nearly 2 years and it’s been an incredible…

4 min readMar 18, 2022

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Pandemic Home Working

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John Lewis Partnership — Measuring Our Delivery Performance Using DORA Metrics

Hi — I am Rob Hornby (Product Lead) for the John Lewis & Partners Digital Platform. Today I’m going to run through the work we’ve done…

8 min readMar 3, 2022

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Staycations through the Pandemic

One of the benefits of being in the John Lewis Partnership and being a Partner is access to some amazing hotels, set in outstanding…

5 min readFeb 19, 2022

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Staycations through the Pandemic

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Our Award Winning John Lewis Digital Platform

Today, we’re writing about our recent success in the DevOps Industry Awards, where we were crowned victors for the Best Cloud project …

11 min readNov 11, 2019

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Our Award Winning John Lewis Digital Platform

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Measuring Our Continuous Delivery Progress

We’ve embarked on work to move off our legacy monolithic Oracle Commerce platform and are creating a “microservice” based architecture…

6 min readJul 30, 2019

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Measuring Our Continuous Delivery Progress

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Rob Hornby

Rob Hornby

Lead Engineer within our Technical Profession & Platform Product Lead for John Lewis with a background in retail technologies, software testing and platforms.

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