Importantly – unlike an MOT – this isn’t a pass/fail thing or just a checklist to work through: it’s about areas to improve and problems to fix more or less urgently and it’s necessarily specific to an organisation and its audiences.
- Link author: Steph Gray
- Saved here: September 21, 2021
...people from across the Government Digital Service reflect on the role that digital leaders can have in transformation and the qualities a good digital leader should have.
- Link author: GDS Team
- Saved here: August 4, 2021
A white label product management handbook for government digital services
- Link author: Scott Colfer
- Saved here: July 29, 2021
Matt Edgar shares the things he has learned delivering digital services, so that you don't need to learn them the hard way yourself.
- Link author: Matt Edgar
- Saved here: July 29, 2021
"Objectives and key results (OKRs) is a simple tool to create measurable goals for agile teams. It provides a framework for defining objectives, how teams will achieve those outcomes, and tracking their progress. It’s a light-touch way of setting goals and focus.
- Link author: Steve Messer
- Saved here: July 29, 2021
There’s lots of ways of working in the open, blogging is just one of them.
- Link author: Steve Messer
- Saved here: July 29, 2021
Over the last year Defra has started making the transition from focussing on projects to focussing on teams. The results of this have been great. More stability has meant work gets done more quickly, meaning we can deliver more great services for our users. “Focus on teams, not projects” even made it to the top of our list of digital principles.
- Link author: David Thomas
- Saved here: July 29, 2021
...the approach taken to build and deliver digital products needs to evolve to take advantage of modern software development methods including agile iterative development, human centered design, and continuous delivery.
- Link author: Chris Johnston & Kelly O’Connor
- Saved here: July 29, 2021
We want to make the internet work for everyone. For that to happen, our public, civic and business leaders need to become digital leaders — not just so that they can manage specifically digital programmes and projects, but so that they can make sure their entire organisations are relevant and effective in a digital age.
- Link author: Janet Hughes
- Saved here: July 29, 2021