Digital by Default

Author: Matt Jukes

  • [What is it you actually do?] Roo Reynolds

    ‘What is it you actually do?’ is a series of blogpost ‘interviews’ that ask interesting folk working on digital products in and around public service the age old question — ‘what is it you actually do?’. Shamelessly copying from Lifehacker’s ‘How I work’ series and ‘The Set Up’ blog. Who are you and what do you do…

  • [book report] Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble by Dan Lyons

    http://amzn.to/22u3h9F For a couple of years around 2006 I was desperate to work at a web start-up. Well not desperate enough to leave Bristol but pretty interested in the idea anyway. I read Techcruch and Mashable (when it was still a tech blog) and had dreams of working in a truly Internet-era company and escaping…

  • Internet of Public Service Jobs — 29/05/16

    ‘Internet of Public Service jobs’ is a weekly list of vacancies related to product management, user experience, development and design in…you guessed it…the ‘internet of public service’ curated by @jukesie every Sunday. Lifeboats and libraries. Unions and universities. Charities and co-operatives. Quite the mix this week and once again it is a decent spread around…

  • [book report] Radical Focus: Achieving Your Most Important Goals with OKRs by Christina Wodtke

    Over the years one of my [many] deficiencies as a manager in the Civil Service has been my rather dismissive attitude towards the entire appraisals process and by association objective setting. In the past I believed that reliance on ‘reviews’ for performance management whether quarterly, bi-annually or annually was a sign that you weren’t managing…

  • Friday footnotes [2]

    Friday footnotes is a weekly list of links related to product management and design in the ‘internet of public service’ curated by @jukesie [1] Eight principles for user researchers on Government as a Platform — great primer to some of the main approaches to succeeding in creating a truly user-centric culture. [2] Agile in the public sector — Roo…