Capgemini Engineering

Many people, myself included, say that sprints are the wrong metaphor for software development. When we think about the need to maintain a steady, sustainable pace, and the importance of avoiding burnout, the idea of the sprint can give us the wrong idea…

After such a positive experience at the Lead Developer conference last year, as soon as I saw this year’s announcement, I saved the date and started writing the email to get my company to pay for the ticket. Thankfully…

The world of web design and development has changed enormously over the course of my career so far, and mostly for the better. In some ways, building websites has become much easier. In others, it’s become far more complex. While browser support for for…

On election day I went to Westminster. Not for political reasons, but to attend the Lead Developer conference. I’d been meaning to go ever since hearing good things about it from my colleague Tom Phethean, who went to the inaugural conference a couple of years ago…

Along with some of my colleagues in the Digital Platforms team, I recently took a tour of the London lab of Capgemini’s Applied Innovation Exchange. The AIE is a series of facilities around the world giving Capgemini and our clients a space to explore emerging technologies…

Cybersecurity was a huge focal point of 2016. With a new hacking scandal being highlighted in the news almost on a weekly basis, cybersecurity has become a major issue for all digital companies. Looking at some of the more severe breaches of 2016, it seems no-one is safe, and that…

Following the previous blog post about our software engineering team culture that I wrote with my colleague Andrew Harmel-Law, I spoke about the subject at the January Drupal Show & Tell last night.