The IJYI Sprint Safari - Part 2

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. Numerous [https://numerous.app/]

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 [https://www.ijyi.com/services/inception-workshop/] and the project with Suffolk County Council [https://www.ijyi.com/software-development-case-studies/inception-workshop-kick-starts-a-new-project-for-suffolk-county-council/].

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.

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 [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 [https://www.ijyi.com/blog/new-research-impact-of-lockdown-on-business-it/] Download the full survey results [https://www.ijyi.com/software-development-resources/agility-in-the-face-of-lockdown/]

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.