After you’ve worked in Software Development for a while, you learn a lot of skills
Alan Richardson helps teams develop software better: Programming, Automating, Testing, and Marketing. Alan can work hands-on or strategically. Alan also has extensive experience training and mentoring.
Alan Richardson has worked at every level of the Software Development hierarchy. From hands-on Programmer, Tester and Automator; through to management level as Test Manager, Head of Testing, Staff Engineer. Alan has also worked as consultant, helping teams improve their test and development processes in Agile and non-Agile environments.
As a consultant Alan had to learn how to present information and this led to talking at conferences, keynote speeches, workshops and training courses. This activity also spun out into releasing books and online courses.
In order to help sell his independent consultancy, Alan learned how to perform sales and marketing. Also doing this professionally as Head of Developer Relations and Head of Digital and Developer Marketing.
Alan continues to study, and remains a development practitioner creating production code.
Skill Areas
- Management
- Leadership
- Consultancy
- Programming
- Testing
- Automating
- Developer Relations
- Marketing
Trading As
Compendium Developments is a limited company with Registered office: 39 The Metro Centre, Tolpits Lane, Watford, Hertfordshire, WD18 9SB, UK
- Company Number: 03613966,
- Registered in England and Wales.
- Vat Registration Number: 117626614.
- Director Alan Richardson