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THIS MONTH, JOIN US ONLINE!

Due to Government advice regarding COVID-19, we’re hosting our events remotely for the safety of all our staff, venue staff and community members. You can read more about our policy for COVID-19 here.

Tonight's event is remote via Zoom, details will be posted here and shared on Slack and via email fifteen minutes before the event.

Tonight's event is remote via Zoom, you can join using this link.
Meeting ID: 899 4752 6318

Password: unicorn

We’ll also be following along live on the #tech-nottingham-monthly channel on Slack for general event chat and Q&A with Anna.

You can join from your computer, phone or tablet - all you need is an internet connection. As we’re using both Zoom and Slack, and we’ll be running interactive activities, a computer or tablet would work better.

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After the launch: the difficult teenage years

by Anna Shipman

When launching a new product to replace an old one, it’s easy to rally behind the mission and make good technical decisions. But once it’s launched, the vision is not so clear, corners cut to get the site live come back to bite, and things can very easily lose focus.

Based on my experience with the launch of two major sites (FT.com and GOV.UK) this talk is about how to bring things back on track.

  • how to refresh the vision

  • what to focus on in the tech strategy

  • handling gnarly code that has grown unchecked

  • making it easy to support

  • protecting a DevOps culture when the business is unhappy

  • tending a system that will live on, rather than be replaced again a few years down the line

Anna Shipman

Anna Shipman

About Anna

Anna Shipman is Technical Director for Customer Products at the Financial Times, leading on the award-winning FT.com website and the FT iPhone and Android apps.

She has been a software developer for over 15 years. Before working at the FT, she was a technical architect and the UK government's Open Source Lead at the Government Digital Service.

She speaks at conferences, blogs on her personal website, tweets and is always up for a game of pool.


Win Stuff at Tech Nottingham!

We have some great prizes to give away at this month’s event, you know the drill: attend and tweet on the #TechNott hashtag to be in with a chance to win!

Details on those coming soon!


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