Engineering Scaling
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What is a talent MCP server, and why would you want one?
An MCP server for talent is a tool your AI assistant can call to search for engineers while you are already talking to it about the gap in your team.…
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The candidate who doesn’t exist, and what imposter hiring fraud looks like from inside a software firm
There is a category of security threat that doesn’t arrive through your firewall. It arrives through your careers page, passes two rounds of interviews, and gets handed credentials on day…
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The Return of Craftsmanship in Software Engineering
For much of the past decade, software engineering has been driven by one overriding objective: ship faster. Agile methodologies, DevOps, continuous deployment and cloud-native architectures transformed how quickly organisations could…
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Stakeholder friction – how AI can solve one of the largest challenges in Software.
What “good” looks like, and why it’s worth codifying Most cross-functional friction gets diagnosed as a communication problem. People aren’t talking enough, the handoffs are messy, someone needs to write…
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The AI Hiring Paradox: Why Technical Skills Matter More Than Ever
One of the most common assumptions surrounding AI in software engineering is that technical expertise is becoming less important. The logic seems straightforward enough. If AI can generate code, write…
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The Rise of the Product Engineer: How AI Is Changing the Engineering Role
There is a shift happening… There is a shift happening in how engineering leaders describe the people they want on their teams, and it is showing up in the language…
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AI, Talent, and the Changing Shape of Engineering Teams
Insights from the report: AI in Software Engineering – Making Sense of the Noise, by HI Technology & Innovation. AI isn’t just changing how software is written, it’s reshaping how…
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3 ways to scale development and IT operations in small businesses
There frequently comes a time when a business glances at its tiny dev operations and realises that it’s just not cutting it. Nowadays businesses have so many opportunities in the digital…
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The team at HI enabled Lightfoot to rapidly scale development with minimal support from internal dev resources.
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HI’s engagement model is tangibly different. We were impressed by how proactive their team was at all levels with high velocity, easy reviews and an ability to avoid issues before they happened. The ethos, expertise and commitment of the HI team meant this really felt like a relationship, not just a supplier arrangement.
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You get access to some interesting projects.
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Agile projects were run by the HI project and development teams, with stakeholder reviews along the way. A secondary benefit was working with them to improve internal development and DevOps workflows.
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The team at HI enabled Lightfoot to rapidly scale development with minimal support from internal dev resources. They led well-controlled stakeholder engagement to capture product requirements, applying extensive technical experience to shape the solutions, whilst maintaining consideration of other business criteria such as budget. Agile projects were then run by the HI project and development teams, with stakeholder reviews along the way. A secondary benefit was working with them to improve internal development and DevOps workflows.
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I’ve been given great freedom to explore new technologies and learn new skills.
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We were impressed by how proactive their team was at all levels with high velocity, easy reviews and an ability to avoid issues before they happened.
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HI’s engagement model is tangibly different. The ethos, expertise and commitment of the HI team meant this really felt like a relationship, not just a supplier arrangement.
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