About: Oliver Wickham

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Olly is Principal Consultant with Valtech. He has been developing software professionally since 1997. His career has spanned many different sectors, including robotics, highly concurrent enterprise messaging (140,000 concurrent users), banking, web portals and hard real-time embedded systems. The more experience he gains, the more he realises there are still many riddles to be solved by the industry before it can consistently deliver cutting-edge high quality software on time and budget. As well as getting involved at the coding coal face, he has undertaken roles of management, and enterprise architect. He also loves travelling and has been fortunate to work at international locations including the UK, Japan, North America and Europe.

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Putting the Software Development back into Agile

It seems that Agile has grown up. That was certainly the message I received when I attended the Valtech Agile Edge event recently. The people attending were primarily from large enterprises and the public sector.  The type of attendee was not a surprise, given that target audience for the Agile Edge event is programme managers, [...]

Global Day of Code Retreat 2011 – London, UK

It is not often that you get the opportunity to get involved with an event on the scale of Global Day of Code Retreat (GDCR). On Saturday (3rd December, 2011) an estimated 2200 software developers gathered in more than 90 cities around the world to solve a relatively simple computing problem. The objective was to [...]