So after weeks of discussions with the Exec Team and my leads, today I finally presented a full team restructure to the team. I've been at Ito 8 years, so the team know me well and I've always been...

1,000 songs in your pocket changed how the world listened to music. The MoTaverse changes how tech professionals grow their careers.Sixteen features, sixteen stories, one thread running through al...

The really difficult challenge I've had is moving from being close to Quality Engineers and all the relationships across the piece, to managing lead engineers and working with the exec team.So I'm ...

So in this new role, as I learn the challenges, I thought I'd share them as I go. I have new surroundings working with an exec team and working with my team of leaders. Communicating with my n...

I'd started to get involved in the community in the previous months and met people online, but going to MoTaCon brought it all together. I felt the vibe of the community, the genuine care and respe...

Another cracking Gemini image! 😂Seriously, I've mentioned this on a couple of calls and TWiQ podcasts that I was going through an interview process for a promotion. Well it happened, I have recentl...

In a recent discussion with Ambassadors I mentioned that I have been referred to before as "Dr Default". I thought this might be an interesting persona to explore.While others jump straight into ho...

Over the last couple of weeks I was hearing stories in the Motaverse where good people were feeling oppressed, disrespected or worse bullied in their organisations. This is something I encountered ...

We love a good TWiQ episode that celebrates the wins. And in today's episode we did just that. So here goes, we celebrated the following wins... Diana Dromey ran her first ever 10k, goin...

On the 15th of January 2026 myself and Ujjwal Kumar Singh joined a call and pressed record. We were curious to see what would happen. A few weeks later I’d done the same with Neil Taylor and Clare ...

Upon my AMA about how baking a cake is the same as developping software moment Gary Hawkes asked "How do the teams responsibilities in a bakery, align with a quality engineering team?". Immediately...

I had a gig on Saturday with my band Jazz Division in a gorgeous setting in Norfolk supporting The Brain Tumour Charity and Mind. Something came out of this that I thought was relevant to how we co...