{"id":293,"date":"2024-04-25T13:31:49","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T12:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8082\/?page_id=293"},"modified":"2024-04-25T22:38:29","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T21:38:29","slug":"about-frank","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/localhost:8082\/about-frank\/","title":{"rendered":"About Frank"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image frank-picture\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-thumbnail is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost:8082\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Frank-Ray-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-33\" style=\"object-fit:cover;width:200px;height:200px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/localhost:8082\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Frank-Ray-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/localhost:8082\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Frank-Ray-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/localhost:8082\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Frank-Ray-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/localhost:8082\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Frank-Ray-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/localhost:8082\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Frank-Ray-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/localhost:8082\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Frank-Ray-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, http:\/\/localhost:8082\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Frank-Ray-1200x1200.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Frank Ray<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m Frank, a former Microsoft C# .Net software developer and owner of <a href=\"https:\/\/bettersoftware.uk\">Better Software UK<\/a>, a consultancy specialising in software requirements for agile development teams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Remote, outsourced and offshore development is difficult to do well, and my time in enterprise software development teams, firstly as a hands-on developer and then as a business analyst, clearly showed me this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m the author of <a href=\"https:\/\/bettersoftwarerequirements.com\">Better Software Requirements<\/a> and I have dedicated my professional life to improving software development. I discovered that I am autistic in my mid-40s and learned that it\u2019s not uncommon for engineers. It\u2019s also why I understand and communicate with other developers so well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<script type='application\/ld+json'>\n{\n  \"@context\": \"http:\/\/www.schema.org\",\n  \"@type\": \"Person\",\n  \"name\": \"Frank Ray\",\n  \"url\": \"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/frankray\/\",\n  \"sameAs\": [\n     \"https:\/\/frankray.net\",\n     \"https:\/\/bettersoftwarerequirements.com\",\n     \"https:\/\/github.com\/FrankRay78\",\n     \"https:\/\/medium.com\/the-autistic-engineer\"\n  ],\n  \"image\": \"https:\/\/bettersoftware.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Frank-Ray-1200x1200.jpg\",\n  \"jobTitle\": \"Founder\",\n  \"worksFor\": {\n    \"@type\": \"Organization\",\n    \"name\": \"Better Software UK\"\n  }\n}\n<\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m Frank, a former Microsoft C# .Net software developer and owner of Better Software UK, a consultancy specialising in software requirements for agile development teams. Remote, outsourced and offshore development is difficult to do well, and my time in enterprise software development teams, firstly as a hands-on developer and then as a business analyst, clearly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-293","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","missing-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8082\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/293"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8082\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8082\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8082\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8082\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8082\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":360,"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8082\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/293\/revisions\/360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8082\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}