Sunday Times Tech Track 100

Over the weekend, Rittman Mead was listed in the Sunday Times Tech Track 100. We are extremely proud to get recognition for the business as well as our technical capability and expertise.

A lot of the public face of Rittman Mead focuses on the tools and technologies we work with. Since day one we have had a core policy to share as much information as possible. Even before the advent of social media, we shared pretty much everything we knew through either our blog or by speaking at conferences, but we very rarely talk about the business itself. However, a lot of the journey we have gone through over the last 7 years has been about the growth and maintenance of a successful, sustainable, multi-national business. We have been able to talk about, educate and evangelise about the tools and technologies as a result of having the successful business to support this.

I remember during one interview we did several years ago the candidate asked (and I’m paraphrasing): “How do you guys make any money, all I see/read is people sitting in airports writing blog posts about leading edge technologies?”.

One massive benefit from this is we often face the same problems (albeit on a different scales) to those that we talk about with customers, so we have been able to better understand the underlying drivers and proposed solutions for our clients.

From a personal point of view, this has meant spending a lot more time looking at contracts as opposed to code and reading business books/blogs as opposed to technical ones. However, it has been well worth it and I would like to say thanks to all of those both inside and outside of the company who have helped contribute to this success.