Digital by Default

Author: Matt Jukes

  • Yet another year in numbers post :)

    I have been enjoying the various year in numbers posts doing the rounds so here is a personal one. This year I.. Wrote 102 posts split over 3 different blogs Gave 52 interviews for 7 jobs Spoke at 4 conferences Gave 7 internal talks Tweeted 112,444 words* (by mid December) Caught the train 376 times…

  • Jobs I found interesting this week

    20th December 2015 Digital Service ManagersOffice for National StatisticsView job ad Sheffield Development HubHome OfficeView job ad Digital Transformation Project ManagerEU Business Growth HubView job ad Director of Digital EngagementUniversity of LincolnView job ad Head of Customers, Communication and MarketingDenbighshire County CouncilView job ad User Experience OfficerVSOView job ad Senior Product ManagerCitizens AdviceView job ad Digital…

  • We need to talk about…Service Assessments

    Pretty much everybody involved in UK [central] Government digital work these days knows about the GDS Service Assessments. Created to provide a level of peer review and assurance around compliance with the Digital by Default Service Standard they were envisioned as a way of building trust in the previously utterly untrusted — Government technology project delivery. Almost…

  • [Still] lots to learn

    5 lessons I’m learning from the ONS Beta project One way or another I have made my living working on something web related since 1997. I’ve done that in libraries, universities, charities, startups, as a one man band and as a civil servant. I started writing HTML in Notepad, moved to using MS FrontPage and then…

  • The Famous Five: my top five NEW comic collections released in 2015

    A quick browse of my shelfs and a check on release dates and I have come up with a top five new collections for 2015. Lots of other great books are still going strong — Saga, East is West, Velvet, Southern Bastards, The Wicked and the Divine, Uber, Lazarus, Black Science, Deadly Class, Daredevil, Elephantmen, Ms Marvel…