When we interview marketers at Redgate, we’re often asked So, how many people work in marketing? What’s the size of the team? Redgate is getting on for 400 total employees now, and when I reply that Around 40 work in marketing, I get a pretty uniform response – That’s a…Read more
Redgate has had an amazing year. In 2017, we grew well ahead of expectations, across all areas of the business. It’s been a really exciting ride, and has created new opportunities in all parts of the company as growth funds new innovations and development plans for our people. All great.…Read more
Implementing Agile working practices reminds me of Communism – if we just did it properly, everything would work perfectly! All projects would be a dream to work on, all deliveries would be early, the customers would get exactly what they needed, and so on. However, perfection is the enemy of…Read more
I’ve written a couple of times before about what it takes to be a Product Manager at Redgate – firstly on what the core skills are, then on the need for strategic thinking as part of the role. Certainly one of the points that I hope came across was that we…Read more
A few months ago I wrote about how difficult it was to find product managers for Redgate. I described how hard it was finding someone with the necessary mix of technical, commercial and interpersonal skills to succeed. Thinking about it more, I believe that it is in fact harder than…Read more
We’ve just finished the acquisition of ReadyRoll, a database migrations and deployment tool that makes it easy for software teams to develop SQL Server databases within Visual Studio. That’s the headline news, but why did we do it, and are our customers really ready for it? I’ll answer the second…Read more