Douglas Squirrel
Douglas Squirrel has been coding for 40 years and has led software teams for 18 of them. A London-based executive coach and consulting CTO, Douglas makes use of his extensive experience growing teams to advise startup founders and senior managers at companies such as Nested, Lostmy.name, DueDil, Trussle, and MarketInvoice. His previous roles include founding CTO at TIM Group and vice president of engineering at ecommerce startup Secretsales.
Check out his website or follow him on twitter at @douglassquirrel
Talks I've Given
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Sprinting In Place: The Cost of Missing Leadership Conversations
Featuring Jeffrey Fredrick and Douglas Squirrel
Are you missing the promised benefits of Agile? Douglas and Jeffrey believe that the biggest key to improved performance has been holding effective conversations on difficult topics like Trust, Fear, Why, Commitment and Accountability.
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CTO Craft Bytes - Fintech CTO Panel
Featuring Jonathan Lister, Ezechi Britton, Douglas Squirrel, Dan Jacobs and Joel Greensite
Don't miss the first CTO Craft Bytes at Skills Matter where we'll be taking a deep dive into the challenges faced by technology leaders in financial startups!
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Another Of Your Harebrained Schemes: Why Executives Should (or Shouldn't) Back Microservices
Featuring Douglas Squirrel
Want to introduce microservices to your software but not sure how to pitch it to your boss? Don't miss this talk!
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Microservices: So Crazy It Just Might Work
Featuring Douglas Squirrel
Want to eliminate technical debt, deploy every few minutes, use Python, Clojure, and .NET in the same system, and make major rewrites trivially easy? Advocates of microservices designs, such as Martin Fowler, claim that you can do all this and much more if you construct your application as a...
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Hands on Root Cause Analysis
Featuring Douglas Squirrel
Douglas Squirrel, CTO of youDevise, will demonstrate how his team use root-cause analysis to bring about continuous improvement in their software process.
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Introducing Narrative, a framework for behaviour-driven tests in fluent Java
Featuring Douglas Squirrel
Narrative gives you the tools to write readable behaviour-driven tests in Java. We'll look at an example and explain why you might choose to use Narrative over other testing frameworks.
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Hands-On Root-Cause Analysis
Featuring Douglas Squirrel
Even the best teams encounter costly, puzzling problems. Leaders and others concerned with improving software quality and team process often say they are going to address "the" root cause of such a problem.
My Work
Secretsales Ltd
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