Author: Matt Jukes

  • Vancouver → Seattle → Portland May 2018

    #holidaynotes This is Day 14 of my holiday to the ‘Pacific Northwest’ and I’m pretty worn out to be honest. The trip was a reward to myself for hitting my first major health milestone after my Diabetes diagnosis last year and honestly it has been a wonderful break. For the first time I can remember…

  • Internet of Public Service Jobs: 13/05/2018

    ‘Internet of Public Service jobs’ is a weekly list of vacancies related to product management, user experience, data and design in…you guessed it…the ‘internet of public service’ curated by @jukesie every Sunday. Holiday edition — yes I am still away but I’ve been up since 5am so I thought I’d do something vaguely useful. It is a…

  • Internet of Public Service Jobs: 06/05/2018

    ‘Internet of Public Service jobs’ is a weekly list of vacancies related to product management, user experience, data and design in…you guessed it…the ‘internet of public service’ curated by @jukesie every Sunday. [01] Director of Technology (Citizen Health)NHS DigitalLeeds or LondonFrom £100,000Closing date: 17/05/2018 [02] Head of Open BankingNational Savings and InvestmentsBlackpool or London£71,500Closing date:…

  • Year of the Dog: Notes from ‘Grain Rain’ (Guyu)

    Things are still a bit unsettled at work to be honest. The fall out from the less than successful project has dominated this week — which was actually unexpected as I thought we were over the hump with it. Tiring. I am learning a lot but honestly I think ignorance was probably bliss on this occasion. What…

  • Time to ‘Accelerate’ transformation

    If you are anything like me you read a lot of ‘business’ books. For me these are usually at least somewhat related to doing work in the internet-era — often with titles including buzzwords like ‘lean’, ‘agile’, ‘transformation’, ‘sprints’ (or a creative combination of all of them!). Also if you are anything like me you do what…