Manchester based.
or remote
Faster, more consistent delivery. Protected margins. Retained clients.
Helping digital and creative agencies run smoother, more profitable projects.
Does your delivery team's success rate need a boost?
For many agencies, client projects feel like a rollercoaster of unpredictability. One project runs smoothly, the next is a mess. Instead of repeatable success, you are stuck in firefighting mode, with frustrated teams, squeezed margins and clients who feel let down.
What if you could consistently deliver successful projects, on time and on budget, starting in days not months?
Hi, I am Harry Bailey, a Manchester based technology and delivery leader, fractional CTO and coach. I have spent over two decades at the intersection of software engineering, agency ownership and creative problem solving.
I help digital and creative agencies boost their project delivery success rate and strengthen their engineering and delivery culture using a simple three step approach that offers swift, visible results.
I bring leadership and hands on experience
As a founder and director of digital agencies I have navigated the challenges of scaling service businesses, leading technology teams and delivering high quality digital products. I have run PHP and CMS projects, led product work and supported agencies in reshaping their delivery models.
This gives me a practical view on how sales, delivery, technology and support need to work together if you want happy teams, trusted processes and healthier margins.
I am pragmatic about agility and technology
As a certified Agile coach I have helped teams and organisations adopt more effective ways of working. I focus on continuous improvement, flexibility and delivering value quickly.
I am not an Agile evangelist and I am not attached to a single framework. Most agencies need a tailored mix of approaches that reflect their services, technology stack and people. My job is to help you choose approaches, tools and platforms that fit your context, rather than forcing a textbook answer.
I help align strategy, delivery and clients
In my strategy work I support client facing agencies to refine both their sales and delivery approaches. That includes clarifying how you position your services, how you scope and estimate projects, how you manage risk and how you transition clients into longer term support and product style relationships.
All of this is informed by hands on experience in software development, commercial leadership and product delivery, so recommendations stay grounded in reality, not theory.
I understand both technology and people
With a client centric mindset I work with leadership teams, delivery specialists and engineers to:
Improve predictability and project margins
Strengthen engineering and delivery culture
Build clearer, more trusted ways of working with clients
My goal is to help agencies not just survive but thrive in a changing digital landscape, by becoming more resilient, more efficient and more focused on long term client value.
If you run a digital or creative agency and want to improve delivery performance and technology decisions, let us talk.
