Summary On 15th March 2016, we released a brand new look for cityam.com. In this post I’ll be digging into the what and why of the redesign.
project management
How I prioritise small requests alongside project work
Recently, I changed the way I prioritise new work requests and projects. Here’s what I’ve started doing. Prioritising the product backlog JIRA is our central system for development requests. There’s one project for smaller requests: the “BAU” as I call it, which is anything that takes 2 days dev time or less. Except for urgent […]
Does Agile work for a website redesign?
On Tuesday 15th March, we launched a redesigned cityam.com. I’ll cover the various parts of the redesign in a future post. Right now, I want to talk about our use of Agile.
City AM: Homepage/Category redesign
Note: This is a backdated post, originally published in March 2015. Since joining City AM in June 2014, we’ve introduced a series of gradual changes to the site layout. The main changes can be grouped into a few areas: a new header a tiled layout getting the homepage and category pages to match mobile-first a refreshed sidebar […]