Helping engineers, developers, product leaders, and software business owners stay relevant, lead with judgement, and turn technical capability into business value.
Technical Leaders is a growing collection of articles, frameworks, courses, and practical guidance for people whose careers depend on applying technology well.
Technical Leaders is different because it is not about chasing every new tool or doing deep technical tutorials, of which there are plenty. Technical Leaders is concerned about the leadership and business side of technical work: making better decisions, understanding value, communicating clearly, building useful products, leading skilled people, and adapting responsibly as AI changes the way technical work is performed.
Who want to understand business, leadership, communication, and how to create more value in their organisations.
Who are trying to stay relevant as AI changes coding, delivery, testing, architecture, and team structures.
Who need to connect powerful products with real customer problems and market demand.
Building commercial applications, industrial software, SaaS products, or internal platforms.
Offering software, automation, data, AI, engineering, or technical services at a time when AI is disrupting delivery models and pricing assumptions.
Responsible for leading highly skilled people who expect autonomy, growth, and meaningful work.
AI is forcing technical people to ask difficult questions:
These are leadership, business, product, and judgement questions.
The future belongs to technical people who can move beyond narrow execution. They will understand context, frame problems clearly, make sound trade-offs, communicate value, lead teams, and use AI without surrendering professional judgement.
Technical Leaders is developing practical guides, frameworks and supporting material for engineers, developers, product people, and technical business owners.
Planned topics include:
These resources will be designed for people who already understand technology and want to become more effective in applying it, leading it, and creating value from it.
I have spent more than 30 years working across process engineering, industrial software, IT leadership, product strategy, and business development.
My most relevant experience for Technical Leaders comes from co-founding and running a specialist industrial software business for over 20 years. That business has served demanding global customers in sectors such as mining, oil and gas, and heavy industry, and continues today as part of a larger global software group with many of the original customers from 1995.
That experience taught me that successful technical businesses are not built on technology alone. Good strategy, product judgement, customer understanding, trust, positioning, delivery discipline, commercial awareness, and the ability to lead skilled people are key ingredients. The same ingredients are needed as AI enabled technologies are set to fundamentally change the game.
The intersection of engineering, software, business ownership, industrial customers, and technical teams is a powerful nexus where future businesses will be built to prosper for the next 20 years. My goal is to continue to apply the fundamentals of good technical leadership to this new and exciting Chapter.
