Ian Smith
Happiest when making stuff or making people laugh. Tech, and Design Thinking. Works as a fractional CTO, Innovation leader and occasionally an AI or web developer through my company, craftscale. I'm a FRSA.
Appears in 34 Episodes
Managing IT Suppliers and AI Voice Cloning
In this episode, Ian and Ash delve into the complexities of managing IT service providers, exploring the challenges and strategies of working with consultancies and in...
TikTok and X
In this episode, Ian and Ash delve into the evolving landscape of social media, examining the implications of TikTok's potential ban in the U.S., the integration of AI...
AI Haters and The Game That Was Too Good
This episode of the podcast features Ian and Ash in a humour-filled comeback, diving into the fascinating world of generative AI and the impact of Baldur's Gate 3 on t...
Testers vs Toxic Culture and Personal Knowledge Management
Ian and Ash talk about those pesky testers forming communities and taking on toxic cultures, plus forming a dilapidated mind shack using personal knowledge management ...
Metrics and Scrum Bashing
Ian and Ash talk about the (mis)use of metrics, including the big four and happiness indices plus how proud Ash was of his Certified Scrum Master qualification but now...
The Great Post Office Scandal and Moxie Marlinspike's Web3 Article
Ian and Ash talk about the high price of software without ethics in The Great Post Office Scandal and dive into Moxie Marlinspike's first impressions of web3 (lowercas...
The Metaverse and You Build It You Run It
Ian and Ash talk about Mark Zuckerberg’s pivot towards the Metaverse and discuss what the industry catch-phrase “You build it, you run it” means in real life.
Other Development Team Roles and Apple's Child Safety Measures
Ash and Ian give some love to those other development team roles - the ones that save you from wasting loads of time on hippos - and then they try to decide how much o...
The Hard Thing About Hard Things and the State of DevOps Report, 2021
Ian and Ash discuss venture capitalist Ben Horowitz’s book for startup CEOs, The Hard Thing About Hard Things, and look at the different way organisations create and u...
Digital legacies and The Unicorn Project
Here’s an extra-length episode to keep you going over the holiday season. Ash selfishly relishes the upcoming Twitter username purge but realises that you need to be c...
Building Alexa Skills and popping city tech bubbles
Ian and Ash talk about building an Alexa skill to reduce Ian's energy consumption and how Leeds is growing a tech bubble all of its own, to complement its existing soc...
Four day work week and design thinking
Ian and Ash talk about how Microsoft Japan trialled a 4 day working week, busting Ash's myths about Japanese working culture and why technology people should care abou...
Getting into machine learning, and Team Topologies
Ian and Ash talk about how to get into machine learning and discuss the principles for building teams within your organisation outlined in the book and training course...
Collective bargaining and cargo cults.
Ash and Ian talk about collective bargaining in tech, and “cargo culting”.LinksCollective bargaining:Business Insider - Here's the memo Google CEO Sundar Pichai sent t...