Ongoing technology leadership

Someone who knows your business and helps you move it forward.

When you’re running a business, it helps to have someone experienced alongside you. I work with founders and their teams a few days a month, helping shape the work and staying involved as it progresses.

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Is this right for you?

Could this help your team?

You have developers or a software partner, but you’re carrying a lot of the decisions yourself. You want someone who can get to know the people involved and help you make sense of what needs to happen. We can start with a conversation about that.

You’d value a regular conversation about where to focus your team’s effort.
Your developers need someone experienced to work through technical choices with.
You want a clearer understanding of progress and what’s getting in the way.
You need ongoing help, with time and responsibilities that fit your business.

What you receive

What working together can look like

Practical advice, grounded in your business and clear enough to act on.

Working out what to build

I work with you and whoever leads product to understand the business need. We look at what deserves attention now and what can wait.

Working with your developers

I talk through proposals with the people doing the work. That might mean exploring a simpler approach, helping with a difficult trade-off or questioning a rewrite.

Keeping a useful view of progress

We look at what’s reaching customers and where work is getting stuck. When plans change, we work through what that means for the commitments you’ve made.

Helping when something needs a closer look

Sometimes a small piece of hands-on work helps answer a question or unblock the team. We can agree that within the time available, with ongoing delivery ownership kept clear.

The approach

Getting started and staying involved.

Get to know each other

Tell me about the business and introduce me to the people I’d be working with. We agree where I can help and how much time makes sense.

Work together regularly

We set aside time for useful conversations and follow-through. We review the arrangement as we learn what the team needs.

A clear scope from the start

Time and fee

Typically two or three days a month. We agree the allocation, monthly fee and how that time is used before starting. You can come straight to ongoing support; an initial review is available if there’s a specific question to investigate.

Staying in touch

We agree when we’ll meet, how to raise questions between sessions and when you can expect a reply. Preparation and any hands-on work come from the same agreed allocation.

Responsibility

We agree which decisions I can make and who owns delivery. Daily management, urgent incident cover and an executive appointment would need a different arrangement. Your team should be able to keep working between our sessions.

Get in touch

Tell me what you’re working on.

You’re welcome to get in touch with a question, or just to see whether working together might help.