The video of my #TuringFest talk on how to create a strategy is now live. Video, slides and a short write up here: annashipman.co.uk/jfdi/analysing…

I enjoyed this story of a potentially catastrophic production bug that could have brought down PayPal max.levch.in/post/724289457…

I'm really happy to announce that I've started a new position as CTO at Kooth. I've had a brilliant 5 years at the FT but am really excited to get stuck into this new challenge. Mental health is one of the biggest global issues of our time.

I have written up some notes on my CTO Craft Con keynote annashipman.co.uk/jfdi/strategy-… #CTOCraftCon

I enjoyed this charity.wtf/2023/06/19/hel…

Sarah Wells “You need strategy because it helps you make decisions.

It isn’t done when you’ve written it!

There is value in alignment AND in surfacing conflict.”

Recommends Tanya Reilly (now at @[email protected]) & Will Larson & Anna Shipman’s writing

Sarah Wells #LeadingEngLondon

I've published the slides from my #TuringFest talk, Analysing, Deciding, Doing: How to develop and execute an effective strategy slideshare.net/annashipman/an…

I was reminded of this today

I've written up my notes on The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People annashipman.co.uk/jfdi/7-habits.…

This was one of my favourite talks from last year - Anna Shipman talking about entropy and microservices infoq.com/presentations/…

Went to the cinema this morning to watch The Polar Express, watched The Muppet Christmas Carol this afternoon in front of a fire, and am about to watch Die Hard. Am I doing Christmas Eve right?

I’ve written up what we’ve achieved with our FT.com & apps tech strategy over the last few years, and what we are thinking about next: medium.com/ft-product-tec…

I've written up how we worked together on our tech strategy this year; we tried a new process to get input from lots of people and it went well: annashipman.co.uk/jfdi/tech-stra…

Great post from Mags Allen on the rebuild of FT.com's newsletter page medium.com/ft-product-tec…

This is very worth reading if you don’t already believe address data should be free/open.

There is a call to action in the last paragraph; comment on this gov.uk/government/con…, see if you can raise the issue otherwise.

Incredibly powerful article from a former model thecut.com/article/paulin…

Fascinating deep dive from a pale slim ghost on our project to deliver @ft content faster in a simpler way: medium.com/ft-product-tec…

Brilliant post from Emilio de la Torre on how we use technical design documents at the Financial Times medium.com/ft-product-tec…

I like this, especially the suggestion for meetings that require decisions. Setting the story then getting to the decision point with no time left for discussion is *very* familiar: theengineeringmanager.com/growth/get-str…

Really enjoyed this write-up of finding a Google Pixel lock screen write-up
bugs.xdavidhu.me/google/2022/11…