PinnedRob HornbyinJohn Lewis Partnership Software EngineeringWe’ve gone Backstage — This is how we use it on our Digital PlatformHi — 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 read·Aug 10, 2023----
Rob HornbyinJohn Lewis Partnership Software EngineeringHow we support a 24 by 7 Retail businessWe recently put this together internally to explain to anyone joining the organisation the expectations we had around in and out of hours…4 min read·Jun 2, 2023----
Rob HornbyPlatform Team Trap — Balancing Operational Work and New CapabilitiesA 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 read·Apr 14, 2023----
Rob HornbyCreating Your Product OKR’s With ChatGPTI’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 read·Jan 27, 2023----
Rob HornbyinJohn Lewis Partnership Software EngineeringManaging Work in Slack Using EmojiHere at John Lewis & Partners, the John Lewis Digital Platform team looks after one of the busiest and most subscribed to channels in…3 min read·Apr 13, 2022----
Rob HornbyPandemic Home WorkingThe 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 read·Mar 18, 2022----
Rob HornbyinJohn Lewis Partnership Software EngineeringJohn Lewis Partnership — Measuring Our Delivery Performance Using DORA MetricsHi — 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 read·Mar 3, 2022--2--2
Rob HornbyStaycations through the PandemicOne 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 read·Feb 19, 2022----
Rob HornbyinJohn Lewis Partnership Software EngineeringOur Award Winning John Lewis Digital PlatformToday, we’re writing about our recent success in the DevOps Industry Awards, where we were crowned victors for the Best Cloud project …11 min read·Nov 11, 2019----
Rob HornbyinJohn Lewis Partnership Software EngineeringMeasuring Our Continuous Delivery ProgressWe’ve embarked on work to move off our legacy monolithic Oracle Commerce platform and are creating a “microservice” based architecture…6 min read·Jul 30, 2019----