Our Team Meet the Team: Emma Cheney, Headforwards Full Stack Developer
Software developers today need to have the full package of technical skills and teamwork. Headforwards Full Stack Developer Emma Cheney explains.
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Insights As Seen from Space
Who’s winning in the space race at the moment? Is it Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos? Right now actually, it feels like Cornwall is. As the UK’s first horizontal satellite launch is set to take place from Cornwall this autumn, Headforwards founding director Toby Parkins shares his thoughts on how the tech sector needs to build on the excitement and take the opportunity to engage the next generation.
Insights 5 Lessons I Learned Supporting a HealthTech Transformation
Nine months ago, Headforwards Full Stack Developer, Andy Weir changed roles. Read about the lessons he learned supporting a HealthTech transformation.
Our Team Meet the Team: Przemek Furtak, Headforwards Software QA Leader
In a world of increasing automation, Software QA Leader Przemek Furtak discusses the growing importance of humans in software development.
Insights Digital Transformation: the coexistence challenge
The process of undergoing a Digital Transformation requires organisations to continue to run their business at the same time as transforming. CIO Advisory Partner, Pete Reed says companies must give both the old world and the new world attention, being careful not to let one overtake the other.
Our Team Meet the Team: Louise Patch, Headforwards Business Intelligence Developer
We chat to Louise, a Business Intelligence Developer, about how her role combines creativity with technology in our next Meet the Team blog.
Our Team Meet the Team: Mike Thomas, Headforwards Dynamics Developer
In our next Meet the Team post, we speak to Dynamics Developer Mike Thomas about how his start in graphic design led him to Headforwards.
Insights Nurturing Talent
Headforwards Founding Director, Toby Parkins shares his thoughts on the progress made so far working with Cornwall College and exciting plans for the year ahead.
Insights Creating true flexibility in the workplace
Lindsey Nicholls, who heads up our People Operations, discusses joining the team during lockdown, and how we’re striving to provide true work-life balance.
HeadTalks Headtalk | Great Strategy is Design
Raoul Humphreys, who heads our Leadership and Business Development, discusses all things strategy and why it is a company-wide team effort and not just leadership driven.
Insights Lessons in teamwork from the Army and RNLI
Developer Mark Strudwick shares what he’s learned about teamwork from previous lives as a soldier and lifeboat crew member – and how it applies to coding teams.
Insights Rising salaries in the tech sector – fact or fiction?
Turbulence in the market sparks everyone’s interest; employees wonder what’s going on, and employers want to know more – given how much a situation of this kind can shift the cost base of doing anything. But is it as bad as we think it is?
Headforwards founding director, Toby Parkins shares his thoughts.
Case study From healthcare to healthtech: Building a roadmap for digital transformation
Our client, a private health check provider, brought us in to provide technical consultancy – a process where we critically assess an organisation’s architecture, codebase, and plans to make sure they’re fit for purpose.
Case study Transforming how Cornwall Council uses data and business intelligence
Our work with several departments within Cornwall Council involved unifying multiple datasets and presenting insights in digestible formats for both internal and external stakeholders.
Our Team Meet the Team: Akhila Rao, Headforwards Software Developer
In our newest Meet the Team blog, we speak to Akhila Rao, a software developer looking to make a real difference to people’s daily lives.
Case study Creating Agile teams at Cornwall Council through behavioural change
Our work with Cornwall Council started by looking at how the department could change its behaviours to better support Agile working processes.
Insights Why data quality is so important – and how you can improve yours
Data Solutions Designer Kanaga Selvi Nachiyar explains how we measure data quality and help organisations improve their data practices.
Case study Digitally transforming manual processes at Cornwall Council
To digitally transform manual processes at Cornwall Council, Headforwards delivered unified data management and self-serve capabilities.
Insights Requirements gathering: How we prepare – and use – a requirements document
Product Owner Tom Goldring explains how we turn client needs into a living requirements document that our teams can use to guide software development.
Case study Giving customers fast, easy insight into their cloud and managed services
The client can now easily push information to the customer-facing portal, presenting its customers with a visual representation of all their managed services in one dashboard, and improving the client’s own visibility.
Insights Predicting the future: How much work is in our backlog?
In the final instalment of our four-part series, Dave Longman discusses how to use averages to estimate the undefined work in your backlog.