Author: Mark Whitfield

Welcome to my site! After graduating in Computing in 1990, I accepted a position as a programmer at a Runcorn based software house specialising in electronic banking software, namely sp/ARCHITECT-BANK on Tandem Computers (now HPE NonStop). This was before the internet became more prevalent and so the notion of enabling desktop access to company accounts for inter-account transfers and book keeping was still quite a cutting edge idea (and smartphones only ever hinted at in Space 1999). The company was called The Software Partnership (which was taken over by Deluxe Data in 1994). I spent 5 years in Runcorn developing code for SP/ARCHITECT for various banks like TSB, Bank of Scotland, Rabobank and Girofon (Denmark) to name but a few. I then moved onto a software house in Salford Quays for further bank facing projects. After a further 23 years in the IT industry and now a Senior IT Project Manager (both Agile and Waterfall delivery), I thought I would echo out my Career Profile in this corner of the internet for quick and easy access.

The Agile Mindset – 4 Core Values, 12 Guiding Principles

Stakeholder Engagement Summarised

PRD – Product Requirements Document

Project Management Tools: A Comparison

Project Management Tools: A Comparison

Agile Product Backlog

Visited Trafford Centre, 25/09

The Trafford Centre is a large indoor shopping centre and entertainment complex in Trafford Park, Greater Manchester, England. It opened in 1998 and is third largest in the United Kingdom by retail space.^[10]^[11]

Originally developed by the Peel Group, the Trafford Centre was sold to Capital Shopping Centres, later to become Intu, in 2011 for £1.65 billion;^[12] it set a record as the costliest single property sale in British history.^[13]

The battle to obtain permission to build the centre was amongst the longest and most expensive in United Kingdom planning history.^[3] As of 2011, the Trafford Centre had Europe’s largest food court and the UK’s busiest cinema.^[1]