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Transitioning to agile ways of working is not easy. The transition may take a long time and the results may not be visible straight away because changing people’s mindset and culture doesn’t happen overnight. It is important to realise the benefits of Agile transformation and the reasons for it. Many teams start adopting agile ways […]

This section of the Agile series is going to run through some of the most common buzzwords and potential pitfalls we see on a regular basis when we look at agile ways of working. The core values are simple but it can get complicated when terminology overrules principles. When we see teams who do regular […]

This is the first in a series of bitesize DevOps blogs by AL Partner and Co-Founder Kris Saxton. Part one is introducing DevOps and differentiating it from other industry methodologies. At its heart, DevOps is very simple: DevOps is an organisational model where people operate in teams arranged around a product or service instead of […]

This is the second blog of our agile series by Iwona Winiarska, for part one click here. Many organisations need to keep up with the changing environment: shifting business priorities, changing technology solutions or more demanding user needs.  As a result, they need to change their old ways of working to become more nimble, adaptive […]

This is the first in a series of Agile business blogs by Iwona Winiarska, a renowned Agile Delivery Manager and Coach who we were delighted to welcome onboard at Automation Logic in January 2019. An agile approach is an alternative to other project management methodologies such as Waterfall used for delivering projects and building products […]

Software Development has changed over the years. DevOps has taken the Technology Industry by storm, moving beyond the buzzword and becoming an integral part of every high functioning IT teams strategy. But are companies really using DevOps to their advantage and getting the best out of their teams? One of our lead engineers, Nick Barton, […]

Despite multi-cloud’s popularity, many organisations are still struggling with delivery. Which led us to the question: what’s going wrong with multi-cloud adoption? More specifically: how can we help organisations who are currently getting it wrong, get it right? Our Founding Partner Kris Saxton recently presented at Computing’s Cloud and Infrastructure Live on the ‘7 Sins […]

The hype around machine learning shows no sign of slowing down. But while companies set out to hire more data scientists and machine learning engineers, many of us are still left wondering what it is exactly. In this two part blog series machine learning engineer Maartens Lourens sets out to introduce machine learning concepts and […]

BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT and Computing launched this year’s UK IT Industry Awards to recognise exceptional organisations, people, projects and products. We had 4 entries shortlisted across 3 categories including Best Workplace in IT, UK Innovation and Entrepreneurship and Young IT Professional of the Year. We are delighted to have AL’s achievements recognised […]

Following on from our initial conversation, we’ve been speaking with lead engineer, Nick Barton. Nick has just rolled off one of our biggest projects following a great success in a major release and we’ll be speaking to him about how he’s managed the team who succeeded in this. The release was a substantial Azure migration […]