In June 2016 I was working for a venture capital backed media startup called The Tab. As the CTO one of my core focus areas was enabling a team of 7 engineers to reinvent student journalism acros...
The last twelve months have been a very turbulent time in the media industry with profit forecasts and jobs being slashed across both digital and print. Growing a sustainable business in the mode...
http://blog.david-jensen.com/the-tab-lessons-vc-backed-media-startup/
Competitively actionable analytics was a core element of the technology and product strategy at The Tab. The below details how this approach has translated into product and how that went on to af...
http://blog.david-jensen.com/competitively-actionable-analytics-the-tab/
I spent nine months in 2014 designing, building and iterating an Android app called Metro10 for the UK Newspaper Metro. This taught me a lot about the benefits and frustrations of native app deve...
http://blog.david-jensen.com/going-native-growing-metro10-android/
My recent personal and professional development efforts have taken a microservices approach. This escalated to having 8 services running 3 different languages across 5 different frameworks. After...
http://blog.david-jensen.com/docker-containers-simplify-microservice-management-deployment/
While working at ANDigital we used multiple languages/frameworks/web servers for both internal projects and external client work. Our goal was to be able to continuously deploy each of the servic...
http://blog.david-jensen.com/lessons-from-virtualising-local-development-environments/
For 275 days after his birth my son Jack lived in the intensive care units of various London hospitals. A large team of consultants, doctors, nurses and cleaners worked together 24/7 to support J...
http://blog.david-jensen.com/275-days-intensive-care-taught-managing-complex-projects/
For the past four years I have been working in an editorial environment Metro, the third largest daily UK newspaper. Over this time I have been amazed at the number of times that serious change h...
Over the past four years at Metro we have delivered one replatform, four redesigns, multiple native apps and built and sold an online casino. From these experiences we have iteratively built a pr...
http://blog.david-jensen.com/21-product-development-tips-from-the-trenches/
The majority of content placement on metro.co.uk is now managed by software. This has been a long journey based on real world feedback and incremental addition of complexity. My goal has always b...
http://blog.david-jensen.com/how-software-ate-manual-content-placement-at-metro/