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Latest · Delivery, Agile & TechAre MCPs the new APIs?A practitioner's take on MCPs vs APIs, what they actually are, and whether the hype is justified.June 2026
May 2026
- Delivery, Agile & TechIs Claude Mythos Ultron?When Anthropic announced their most powerful AI yet and kept it hidden from the public, my first thought was Tony Stark.
- UniversityReflecting on my top 5 modules: Programme, Portfolio and Project ManagementAn honest reflection on the first module of my Level 6 Project Management Degree Apprenticeship — the one I had to re-sit.
- Delivery, Agile & TechWhy agencies that don't make this shift will get left behindThe digital agency model is broken. Here's what the shift to consultancy actually looks like in practice.
- UniversityReflecting on my top 5 modules: Contemporary IssuesOn AI in public sector delivery, why trust matters more than technology, and the data problem nobody wants to talk about.
- Sports1 hour 57 minutes. Half marathon. Done.Race day at the Rob Burrow Foundation Leeds Half Marathon. Headphones dead before the start line, crowds that carried me through the last two miles.
- SportsFrom 'piece of cake' to shin splints: why I'm running a half and full marathon this yearFrom naïve optimism to shin splints and cold January mornings — why I'm running the Leeds Half Marathon and York Full Marathon in 2026.
- UniversityReflecting on my top 5 university modules — Part 1: Business StrategyThe first in a five-part series on the modules from my Level 6 Project Management Degree Apprenticeship that actually changed how I work.
- Delivery, Agile & TechWhy I switched from Scrum to Kanban — and what happened nextA real-world account of transitioning a financial services client from sprint-based delivery to flow-based Kanban, and the lessons learned along the way.
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