Andrew Chalmers, Author at Ballard Chalmers

Andrew Chalmers

Co-Founder and Managing Director, Andrew has over 30 years’ experience in business management. With consultant project manager, interim manager and Managing Director roles particularly in the engineering and manufacturing sector and over much of the world, Andrew brings the business-side experience to complement Geoff’s technical leadership. In 1998 Andrew created one of the very first cloud software development consultancies in the UK, which developed a very early-adoption corporate intranet for Hewlett Packard Europe amongst many other ground-breaking projects.

Successful Custom Software Development – AppCan’s Field Data Solution

16th October 2020
Andrew Chalmers
Ballard Chalmers, Blog, Business, Mobile App Development, Project Delivery, Software Development

A look at successful custom software development with AppCan - the smart field data solution. Part two in the series.

2nd October 2020
Andrew Chalmers
Ballard Chalmers, News, Social Responsibility

Microsoft UK asked more partners to sign the Microsoft Partner Pledge as a way for Microsoft Partners to collectively take responsibility for ensuring that the economic recovery and growth from this global pandemic is inclusive. We signed the pledge some years ago but wanted to take this opportunity to re-look at and talk about our commitment to diversity & inclusion, and sustainability.

Raising Awareness and Funds for Prostate Cancer and Men’s Mental Health

This year, The Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride has had to change to a solo ride, but our cause hasn’t changed. Together with my fellow men and women across the globe, we are raising awareness and funds for prostate cancer and men’s mental health on behalf of Movember.

27th August 2020
Andrew Chalmers
Ballard Chalmers, Blog, Project Delivery, Software Development

Whether the custom software development project is new software development, app modernisation or system integration, our expert project delivery team handles the technical and management functions required to get your project completed successfully on time and in budget. This differs…

13th August 2020
Andrew Chalmers
Ballard Chalmers, Blog, Business, Public Sector, Security

Ballard Chalmers qualifications include five times Microsoft Gold Partner competency accreditations, ISO 27001:2013 and ISO 9001:2008, named Crown Commercial Service supplier and Cyber Essentials Plus certified.

Ongoing Custom Application Support

Ballard Chalmers provides an ongoing support service for our software systems and considers this to be an integral part of the overall software application development project. Most commonly we support applications that we have custom-built for clients, but we can…

31st May 2020
Andrew Chalmers
Ballard Chalmers, Blog, Business, Project Delivery

In this blog, we take a look at the delivery capabilities here at Ballard Chalmers. Over the many years we’ve been operating, we have constantly refined and improved what we deliver, be it new software development, application modernisation or system…

Microsoft Partner Code of Conduct

Microsoft recently updated its partner code of conduct, and as Microsoft Gold partners, we are proud to support these principles that Microsoft holds itself and its partners to. Running the business, we have a founding principle of social responsibility including…

23rd April 2020
Andrew Chalmers
Ballard Chalmers, Blog, Business, Project Delivery, Software Development

In this blog, we share with you our development and project methodology, something that we have been honing since 1997.

Regarding COVID-19

In light of recent developments around the COVID-19 condition, we wanted to share an update on what we are doing to keep our team safe and operations moving. As well as specific steps we’ve taken to continue to deliver our…