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.

Agile Velocity, Team Progress, Not Individual Progress

Epic, Feature, User Story and Task

One Page Project Plan

Project Plan Construction

Types of Project Management

IT Project Workflow

Agile Scrum Sprint 0 / Zero Setup

Agile Scrum – Sprint Planning

Agile Scrum – Lightweight, Adaptable, Structured

Just watching highlights of 2025 Ryder Cup on iPlayer – Europe 15 – 13

Visited Lanzarote in 2009

KRIs vs KPIs for Scrum Masters

In Ramsbottom, Bury for the day – 28/09

Visited Barcelona in 2008

BRD – Business Requirements Document in Summary

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]