Digital by Default

Author: Matt Jukes

  • Take the high road…map

    Updated 22/03/2018 GDS have just added some guidance about producing product roadmaps to the Service Manual. It is really good in my opinion — makes it clear why they are important and lays out 12 solid principles for creating them: Your roadmap takes you towards a vision, in iterations A roadmap shows what you’re trying to achieve…

  • Proper Job

    The latest missive from Google about their job search project really does start to move it from an interesting project to a real game changer. If I was working at one of the big jobs boards at the moment I think I’d be polishing my CV to be honest! There is a lot to pick…

  • Nimble?

    adjective quick and light in movement or action; agile. (of the mind) able to think and understand quickly. I think I am going to start talking about ‘nimble’ teams rather than ‘agile not Agile’ which is what I forever seem to be caught in a loop about. I can’t bring myself to use the term…

  • The method behind my madness

    How I do my jobs newsletter each week Thanks to a burst of retweets over the last couple of days my newsletter has had a nice little spike in sign-ups — almost 400 people now (woohoo!) so I thought I would just clear up what goes into the list. Basically it is a genuinely curated list that I…

  • The Howard Hawks method

    I sometimes feel a bit guilty that I give the same talk more than once or return to the same topics for blogposts time and again. But then I think about Howard Hawks. For those of you who do not know Hawks was a Hollywood movie director whose career straddled silent films and ‘talkies’. While…