Barrie Seppings

Have you given much thought to the mark you leave? About the legacy or impact each of us will leave on our family, our friends, our work, and the world? Craig Badings shares a personal story of strength and resilience about his niece, Bella Bradford, who tragically passed from a rare form of cancer.

Is still a practitioner but is responsible for planning and guiding the design activities in a workstream or across one or more products. They are not the team manager but are working with them to ensure the work is done correctly. They also do a lot of stakeholder management—working with their peers in different disciplines, client or business stakeholders, and a senior leadership team. Has a dual purpose—learning to manage people all the while continuing to do the craft.

Whether you're contracting or not, the job market has been tough. Instability in the market such as Covid, recessions, mass layoffs or good old Brexit leads to headcount restrictions and redundancies—but projects still need to get delivered! Some heartless businesses will divide these responsibilities between their remaining overstretched teams—the rest will use contracting and freelancers.