Insights Got bugs?
The obvious approach to tackling frequent bugs might be to start looking at code quality, testing, legacy issues, or poor requirements. However, some other approaches could help the situation. Here are three.
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Insights Navigating Cyber Security: The Winning Approach
Cyber security is cause for concern for businesses in all sectors and of all shapes and sizes. But the scale of the problem should not be a reason to delay action, as Headforwards’ Head of Technology, John Howell explains.
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Insights Understanding the process of Successful Digital Transformation
Digital transformations at one point felt like a one-off project. But the pace of technology means organisations need to continue to iterate and maintaining momentum is critical.
Winning in this new era of transformation requires renewed focus. Headforwards Lead Advisory Partner and former CIO of AXA Health, Pete Reed shares how to win.
Resources Headforwards’ Digital Framework
How can Headforwards’ Digital Framework help you achieve your desired business outcomes through a structured approach to transformation?
Insights Use of an PoC or MVP to overcome barriers
Both Proof of Concept (PoC) and Minimum Viable Product (MVP) are excellent approaches when you’re innovating around a new product or process. Controlled testing helps you learn, iterate and demonstrate that your idea is feasible.
Events Getting the green light: how MVP and POC can move you from stop to go
Watch our webinar where we discuss how you can get the green light for your project by starting with an MVP or POC.
Case study Cornwall Council: Developing Talent
Discover how Headforwards partnered with Cornwall Council to address staffing challenges by recruiting candidates with strong soft skills and training them through hands-on development. This innovative approach helped fill technical roles, supporting the Council’s digital transformation while providing sustainable career pathways in tech.
Insights De-risking Technical Debt
Technical debt can build up in various ways and is perhaps inevitable in any development project. Headforwards can help you identify and tackle this technical debt and thus reduce any risks it may pose to the project’s success.
Events No more data duplication: Achieving a single view
With a number of Single View projects under our belts in both the public and private sectors, we hosted a webinar to share some of our learnings that will help you shape the right Single View project.
Case study Case study: Bluecrest
Private healthcare provider, Bluecrest, appointed an experienced CTO who reviewed the capabilities and technical fit of the existing delivery function and IT platforms. As a result, they sought the experience and capabilities of a trusted and proven technology partner.
Insights What can Software Developers learn from Star Wars?
If the Empire developed software, their stack would hold little or no technical debt. The Empire is never tripping over misplaced boxes, making do with old tools, or spending an excessive amount of time repairing old ships. In his latest insight, Backend Developer Peter Conway discusses what software developers can learn from Star Wars.
Case study Cornwall Council: Transforming how Cornwall Council manage feedback
Headforwards have been working with Cornwall Council on their transformation for over 5 years. As part of building a Single View of the Citizen, feedback from residents and from councillors and MPs now have their own portals that feed into a seamless new back-office Feedback Management system that employs enhanced automation and improves efficiency.
Case study Cornwall Council: Building a Single View of the Citizen for a Local Authority
In partnership with Cornwall Council we worked on the Single View of the Citizen which aims to replace processes that are potentially vulnerable to error or loss and may lead to duplication, inefficient handling, and inconsistency.
Case study NTT: Evolving a shared data centre service management system, Colocation
Headforwards is a long-term technology partner to NTT. The team have worked on the NTT’s shared data centre service management system, Colocation to evolve it from one part of a vast, monolithic architecture to its own series of more than 80 microservices.
HeadTalks HeadTalks Podcast Episode #6 | Women in Tech: Kelly Shungu, Digital Solutions Engineer at VMware
In this episode of the HeadTalks Podcast, Owen Hodge meets Digital Solutions Engineer and creator of The Women in STEM Podcast, Kelly Shungu, to discuss her career path, online community and podcast, the growing importance of tech and the need to keep up, the barriers to women in tech and the benefits of a diverse workforce.
Events Foundations for success: the realities of large-scale transformation
Headforwards has worked with Cornwall Council for 5 years as the technology partner through their digital transformation. In this online session we’re sharing joint learnings from both sides when undertaking large-scale digital transformation.
Case study Requirements Workshop
An insurance client required a system to gather insurance policy information for a limited cohort of private school students. With multiple deadlines to meet and increasing complexity, Headforwards proposed a requirements workshop to help ascertain what the minimum looked like to meet each deadline and when to most efficiently develop features in addition to old behaviour.
Insights What distinguishes Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) from other Agile practices?
Learn about Behaviour-Driven Development in practice, and what distinguishes BDD from other Agile methodologies.
Case study Softcat: Creating a Cloud Management Portal for IT infrastructure and service provider
IT infrastructure and service provider, Softcat have been working on expanding and maturing their Cloud service portfolio. As their technology partner, Headforwards helped Softcat reimagine the interaction they have with their clients by delivering a Cloud Management Portal.
Events Navigating Complexity in Microservices and Distributed Architectures | Webinar
On Thursday 21 March we’re bringing together a panel of engineering experts to discuss their experiences of navigating the development sprawl and the almost inevitable complexity of distributed architectures.
Insights QA Testing at Headforwards
In this article, experienced QA tester at Headforwards, Gowri Thota, shares his thoughts on successful testing regimes.
Case study John Lewis Partnership: Developing a new app for leading high street brand
Headforwards has been a trusted technology partner of John Lewis Partnership for more than ten years. The latest project for the Wellbeing side of the business has been a mobile app.