We write about the things that matter to L&D leaders, HR professionals, and the people responsible for building capability in corporate technology teams: how to choose the right training, how to align learning to business goals, and how to tell genuine value from a course that merely ticks a box.
Scrum Masters Are Being Hired Again. That Is Worth Noticing.
After two difficult years, agile roles are returning to UK job listings. On what the uptick in Scrum Master and RTE hiring tells us about what enterprises are quietly planning, and what that means for L&D teams.
Read more →Why Agile Transformations Fail (And It Is Rarely Because of Agile)
97% of organisations now use Agile methods. Most transformations still fail to deliver what was promised. The reasons go rather deeper than ceremonies done badly, and are considerably more interesting.
Read more →Some Grounds for Optimism, Actually
After a bruising year for training budgets, something is shifting. Inflation is falling, rates are being cut, and nearly half of organisations now say L&D is central to their strategy. On what that might mean for 2026.
Read more →The Training Budget and Other Autumn Sacrifices
Inflation is sitting stubbornly above target, the NI rise has settled into payroll costs, and somewhere in a meeting room the training line is being looked at funny. On the annual ritual of deferring the one thing that might actually help.
Read more →Doing Agile Is Not the Same as Understanding It
Walk into almost any technology organisation and you will find agile. The boards are there, the ceremonies are in the calendar. What you will find rather less consistently is any deep understanding of why any of it is supposed to work.
Read more →Why Ad Hoc Training Fails Corporate Technology Teams
There is something deeply reassuring about the idea that your engineers can sort themselves out. Unfortunately, as approaches to professional development go, self-directed online learning is rather barking up the wrong tree.
Read more →Five Training Trends That Should Shape Your L&D Strategy in 2025
Every February the trend reports arrive in bulk. Most could have been written twelve months earlier. These five genuine shifts, however, are worth understanding properly, because they reflect meaningful changes in what employees expect and what actually works.
Read more →The Year Learning and Development Finally Got Strategic
As December arrives and the office party season begins its annual ritual of mild over-catering, it is worth considering what 2024 has actually changed about how organisations think about learning and development. Quite a lot, as it happens.
Read more →Rising National Insurance and the Training Budget: A False Economy
Every autumn the Chancellor shuffles some numbers around and somebody ends up worse off. This year it is employers. And somewhere in the resulting budget review, the training line is already being eyeballed.
Read more →Looking for training?
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