We introduced Barry in May this year, and we’ve been updating its capabilities ever since. I don’t often talk about the internals, but this week I’d like to highlight some of what goes on under the hood. Barry has always been an “AI agent”, not just an LLM. In fact…

Construction-tech is a man’s world — but it doesn’t have to be. People Ops Associate Freya McDonnell reveals how nPlan is trying to level the playing field. — There’s no hiding from the fact that the UK tech industry is plagued by a hefty gender talent gap — and the same can be said about the UK construction industry. Research by Tech Nation found that although 9% of the UK workforce is employed in tech roles, only 26%…

This is the second post of a two-post series. You can find the first post here. In my last post, I explored the phenomenon that while most activities on projects are delivered on time, most projects are delivered late. I introduced the concept of long-tails in distributions and how it’s…

This is the first part of a two-part story. You can find part 2 here. In early 2022, nPlan conducted a study on close to 500,000 schedules (see link to case study here) and found that around 80% of projects are delayed. While it is a high number, I’m sure…

As Pride Month 2022 draws to a close, nPlan Principal Risk Engineer Richard Bendall-Jones discusses the importance of diversity, equity and inclusivity to effective risk management — TL;DR — risk management benefits most when undertaken by: a) a variety of people of different cultural and professional backgrounds, and b) a variety of ways of thinking and approaching problems. These two dimensions are not mutually exclusive.

Machine Learning in research looks a whole lot different to industry. However, there is a problem that is common to both: scalability. Nowadays we have ML models and datasets that are so large that it would be almost unthinkable to do ML research without a GPU, a high performance computing…

Why do we need a component library? Most software start-ups will find themselves going through many iterations of their product. At nPlan our journey was no different. Over the first couple of years the face of our product underwent many changes and strategy shifts. …

This is part of a series we did on the Advent of Code 2020 problems. You can see a list of all the problems we wrote about here. If you are a fan of AoC, and had fun working on these problems, it is likely that you would be a…

This is part of a series we did on the Advent of Code 2020 problems. You can see a list of all the problems we wrote about here. If you are a fan of AoC, and had fun working on these problems, it is likely that you would be a…