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The IJYI Way Podcast is about the inner workings of a software delivery startup, covering everything from business, finance, software development, agile delivery and DevOps.
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Jan 12, 2021
New Year's Resolutions with Numerous & IJYI
In this fascinating episode we chat to Jason Bullock, CEO at Numerous App, the app that lets you use your personal data to help you earn great rewards and find better deals from better brands. Jason gives us the inside scoop on all the exciting developments at Numerous, plans for the future and his New Year's Resolutions.
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Dec 9, 2020
IJYI & Suffolk County Council Podcast- Behind the scenes on an Inception Workshop
In this episode of The IJYI Way, we're joined by Gareth Morris, Senior Technical Lead at Suffolk County Council.
Gareth chats to Andrew and Chris about his experience of working with IJYI on a two-day Inception Workshop to kick-start a project to replace their existing Analysis of Additional Needs Tool (AANT) in April 2020.
The trio discuss the experience of carrying out a two-day workshop remotely due to restrictions on in-person meetings, how the workshop enabled the Council to build a clear roadmap for their project and what kept them up at night during the process!
Find out more about Inception Workshops and the project with Suffolk County Council.
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Nov 16, 2020
Microsoft Special - Data & PowerBI with Microsoft & IJYI
We're delighted to welcome Paul Henwood, Cloud Solution Architect from Microsoft as our special guest this month. Paul gives us some fascinating insight into all things data and business intelligence and even gives us a little peek into what's to come from Microsoft in the next few months.
We're once again joined by our hosts Andrew Walker and Chris Pont with some great audio selfies from IJYI's CFO Justin Grainger who shares his viewpoint on how PowerBI has enabled IJYI to improve our own decision-making processes. Also, regular podcast listeners will recognise the Voice Of Reason, Alan Jackson, IJYI's COO who pops by to give us a quick look at how IJYI approaches data projects with our clients.
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Sep 29, 2020
Tech in lockdown - Survey results special!
Welcome back to The IJYI Way, we're delighted to be here for Season 2 with a new-look show! Your hosts Andrew Walker and Chris Pont will be bringing you a mix of industry news and in-depth analysis of tech, business and software delivery.
In this episode we are delighted to be joined by Thea Goodluck, Entrepreneur Engagement Manager at Tech Nation. Thea discusses the results of IJYI's recent industry survey "Technology Challenges During Lockdown" and gives us some fascinating insights into the growing tech sector in the East of England.
Got a burning tech question you would like to ask the team? Or maybe you have some thoughts that you would like to share about this episode. Email them to marketing@ijyi.com you can either send a standard email or if you'd like to be featured in the episode then go ahead and record your question as an audio note and email it over!
Half of strategic IT projects delayed as employers prioritise home working - read the full article
Download the full survey results
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Aug 20, 2020
The IJYI Sprint Safari - Part 2
Welcome back! In our second Sprint podcast we continue to look at the 5 day Sprint process. Find out what happens on the all important day 4 and 5.
Andrew is once again joined by IJYI Sprint experts Alan Jackson and Robyne Birkby to find out just how useful a product design sprint can be to move forward with the decision-making process.
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Jul 30, 2020
The IJYI Sprint Safari
Learn about product design sprints in part one of our IJYI Sprint Safari.
It's been a while but we're delighted to share this podcast with you. Andrew Walker, our host with the most (bad jokes) brings the team together to talk about how a sprint process can help teams to get from problem to solution in just 5 days.
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Apr 9, 2020
Tech Sector in the East - Part 2 - We discuss the Tech Nation Report
In the second episode of our Tech Sector in the East of England we take a look at the recent Tech Nation report .
We're hugely grateful to our special guests for taking time out during this busy period to join us.
*Special Guests*
Thea Goodluck - Tech Nation
Tim Robinson - Tech East
Andy Narayn-Barrow - Hethel Innovation
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Apr 8, 2020
Tech Sector in the East - how organisations are coping amidst the Coronavirus pandemic
For this episode of The IJYI Way we couldn't be together in the Ipswich Boardroom. Instead our guests recorded the session from their home office/spare room/bedroom/anywhere they could escape from the kids!
We're hugely grateful to our special guests for taking time out during this busy period to join us.
*Special Guests*
Thea Goodluck - Tech Nation
Tim Robinson - Tech East
Andy Narayn-Barrow - Hethel Innovation
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Mar 26, 2020
How Agile Delivers - Part 2
In a follow-up to our first podcast, we continue the discussion on Agile.
Our podcast stars this week are:
Chris Pont, CEO
Alan Jackson, Voice of Reason and COO
Robyne Birkby, Senior Business Analyst
Ben Rogers, Senior QA Engineer
Martin Dumbill, Business Development Manager
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Mar 12, 2020
Innovate Suffolk Hackathon Preview - An IJYI Way Special!
We're delighted to bring you a very special episode of The IJYI Way where we bring together the Innovate Suffolk team to talk about their upcoming Hackathon event.
Simon Arnold of Fortis Recruit and Founder of Innovate Suffolk gives us some insider tips on what the Hackathon Judges will be looking for. Also, Kara Thurkettle of StrategIQ and last year's winner shares her experience of the event last year and what it was like to be the winner with her product Stress Buddy. Some great tips and insights!
Show guests:
Simon Arnold - Fortis Recruit and Founder of Innovate Suffolk
Peter Basford - Business Growth Coaches Network
Sam Parnell - StrategIQ
Kara Thurkettle - StratgIQ and Stress Buddy
Chris Pont - IJYI
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Mar 5, 2020
How Agile Delivers - Part 1
Welcome back to the IJYI Way! This week we're discussing how Agile delivers and how we use Agile here at IJYI.
Our podcast stars this week are:
Chris Pont, CEO
Alan Jackson, Voice of Reason and COO
Robyne Birkby, Senior Business Analyst
Ben Rogers, Senior QA Engineer
Martin Dumbill, Business Development Manager
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Feb 13, 2020
Nor(DEV):Con Special!
In a very special edition of The IJYI Way we are joined by the four keynote speakers from this year's Nor(DEV):Con conference.
Nor(DEV):Con is the biggest Developer Conference in the East of England and has a fantastic line-up of workshops and speakers.
In our first ever international podcast we are joined by:
*Jennifer Wadella *- Lead Angular Developer at Bitovi based in Kansas City, USA
*Karen Poulter* - Head of IT Development and Architecture at Hutchinson Ports
*Chris O'Dell* - Backend Engineer at Monzo
*Dr Gail Ollis* - Researcher and Lecturer at Bournemouth University
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Jan 30, 2020
DevOps Deep Dive - The Stranger Things / Des O'Connor One
In our second DevOps Deep Dive podcast we bring the team back to discuss all things DevOps, tooling, automation and the future of DevOps....with a little Stranger Things and Des O'Connor thrown in!
Joining us on the podcast is:
Chris Pont, CEO
John Nicholson, CTO
Alan Jackson, COO and Voice of Reason
Tim Naish, Consultant.
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Jan 20, 2020
DevOps Deep Dive
In this episode of The IJYI Way we chat to the IJYI team about the what, why and how of DevOps. The line-up this week includes:
Chris Pont, CEO
John Nicholson, CTO
Alan Jackson, COO
Tim Naish, Consultant.
With years of experience in software development and delivery the team give us some fascinating insights on what has changed in the world of IT. They discuss how DevOps can enabe IT teams to break down barriers and blockages to improve outcomes.
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Jan 5, 2020
The Next Generation - Part 2
In a follow-up to our recent topic on the next generation of coders we brought the team back together to focus more on issues surrounding teaching tech in schools and diversity in tech.
We were delighted to be joined again by Matthew Applegate of Creative Computing Club. Matthew is an inspiring figure in the world of tech, he works with children from across our region to help them get into coding and tech from an early age and stick with it right through to university and employment.
From the IJYI team we have Julia Hunter, George Markham and Inky Simmons who all took a different route into their careers.
Julia, who also runs local CoderDojos has a lot of experience of working with primary school age children to encourage them to take their first steps into coding.
George recently graduated with an MSc from the University of East Anglia and is the IJYI member of staff with the most recent experience of making their way into a tech career through the education system.
Inky came to…
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Dec 4, 2019
The Next Generation - Part 1
We decided to change things up a little for our next podcast and take a look at the next generation of coders, how they are taught and what we need to do to encourage more young people and a more diverse group of people into a tech career.
This is a genuinely fascinating discussion, with so much to say we have split this into two episodes. This first episode concentrates on tech education and we will dig deeper into the issues of diversity in tech in the second episode.
We were delighted to be joined by Matthew Applegate of Creative Computing Club. Matthew is an inspiring figure in the world of tech, he works with children from across our region to help them get into coding and tech from an early age and stick with it right through to university and employment.
From the IJYI team we have Julia Hunter, George Markham and Inky Simmons who all took a different route into their careers.
Julia, who also runs local CoderDojos has a lot of experience of working with primary school age chi…
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Nov 20, 2019
Software Delivery & Digital Transformation
In this episode of The IJYI Way podcast series we return for a more indepth look at software delivery and digital transformation.
We're delighted to be joined again by Jim Overy, Head of IT and Change at Ipswich Building Society and the IJYI team - Robyne Birkby, Senior Business Analyst and Martin Dumbill, Business Development Manager join us alongside our COO Alan Jackson.
This week the team take a look at exactly what we mean by the term software delivery, why digital transformation is so important to a business like Ipswich Building Society and the relative merits of installing a "digital skills jacuzzi" in the office (Andrew had a particularly strong coffee on the go for this episode...)
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Nov 6, 2019
Software Delivery the IJYI way
In this episode of The IJYI Way podcast series we look at software delivery and digital transformation.
Andrew Walker joins us again as our host with the most (coffee) to bring us a fascinating look at digital transformation.
It was a really exciting session for us as we had one of our clients join us for the podcast; Jim Overy, Head of IT and Change at Ipswich Building Society. Jim spoke to us about driving digital transformation within Ipswich Building Society and how this is enabling them to improve customer experience.
Our IJYI lineup is a little different this week, we're delighted to have Robyne Birkby, Senior Business Analyst and Martin Dumbill, Business Development Manager join us alongside our COO Alan Jackson.
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Oct 16, 2019
5 Years in Business - Part 2
IJYI is 5 years old! In today's episode we speak to the directors of IJYI about why we have based ourselves in Ipswich, how we run our discovery workshops and 5 day sprints and the agile manifesto.
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Oct 2, 2019
5 Years in Business - IJYI's 5th Birthday
IJYI is 5 years old! In today's episode we speak to the directors of IJYI about why we came into existence, how the journey has been, what our service offerings are, what they would have done differently and what the future holds!
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