Andrew Halliday / Fractional technology, product and delivery leadership
Make the right technology decision.
Then get it delivered.
I help owners and leadership teams of established businesses plan and lead significant product and technology change. I make sure the business needs drive the roadmap, team, suppliers and data governance before major commitments are made.
You can bring me in for a focused paid review or ongoing fractional leadership.
UK-based. Remote-first.
My deepest experience is in healthcare software, where product decisions, delivery and data governance have to work together. I bring that experience to other businesses facing similarly complex change.
Ways to work together
When to bring me in.
Technology decision reviewBefore a significant commitment.
You're about to invest in a product, service, system, supplier or technology change. Get a clear view of the options, risks and trade-offs before you commit.
Explore a decision review Technology, product and delivery reviewWhen progress or confidence is unclear.
Plans, people or suppliers are already in place, but priorities, ownership, cost or delivery aren't clear. Establish what's preventing progress and what should change.
Explore a delivery review Fractional leadershipWhen the work needs senior ownership.
Bring in a senior leader to take responsibility for an agreed remit and lead priorities, people, suppliers, governance and delivery over time.
Explore fractional leadershipWhat working with me means
A point of view.
A shared direction.
You're bringing me in for my judgement as well as my experience. I'll question assumptions, challenge plans and explain when I think an idea needs to change. Once we've agreed the direction, I'll lead the work alongside your leadership team.
We don't need to agree on every detail. We do need a direction we both believe in. If we can't reach that point, I'll say so rather than take on work I can't stand behind.
About me
A founder's perspective.
Experience of real delivery.
I'm a founder and technology leader with around 25 years' experience. I co-founded KnowMalaria, acquired by Boots in 2018, and have led technology and products used at national pharmacy scale.
Alongside my fractional work, I’m a co-founder and Joint Managing Director of PDX.
Experience / Working with a large organisation
A release process that let the service improve.
A large corporate customer's proposed release arrangements would have limited a small software business's ability to improve its service. As co-founder and executive director, I worked with the customer's leadership to agree a more workable process and led the team and specialists supporting it.
The result was more frequent improvements within an agreed, trusted process, supported by testing and familiar user workflows.
Experience / Refocusing delivery
From a year in development to real customer use.
A software business had spent around a year in development without customers using the service. As fractional CTO, I challenged the approach, simplified the first release and focused the team on the core customer journey.
Real customers were using the live service within my first three months. The example also carries an important lesson about questioning a plan while time and investment can still be redirected.
Writing
Lessons from doing the work.
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What decision or delivery problem are you facing?
Tell me a little about your business, what needs to change and any important deadline. We can have an initial conversation to decide whether a paid review or fractional leadership would be useful.