Digital by Default

Category: jobs

  • 19 problems & Github ain’t one..

    Ben Balter has the rather impressive job title of ‘Government Evangelist’ at Github. He was one of the original Presidential Innovation Fellows in the U.S. and been a vocal advocate for a move towards a more digital by default federal government from within the White House and in his time at Github. He knows of…

  • [from the archive] Don’t do Agile. Be agile. Or something.

    ‘from the archive’ are posts appropriate to this blog I am adding from my earlier Medium writings or blogposts elsewhere — avoiding the worst of it 🙂 First published October 31st, 2015. I’ve read a couple of great posts about ‘agile’ in the last week or so — it is like 2008 all over again! First Paul Downey strayed from…

  • Blogumentation and storytelling

    I am in the process of writing a slidedeck and a few other bits and pieces to support it as a part of our ‘communications strategy’ (meh) for the run up to the launch of our new website (yay). Given I am prevaricating about that (as always) I have been looking at what we — well I — have…

  • The challenge of ‘user driven development’

    It has been 18 months now since we officially started the project to build a new ONS website — the most consistent thing throughout our initial discovery, the alpha and now the latter days of the beta has been a commitment to the principle of being ‘user focused’. Over the life of the project I have taken…

  • Pondering the Peter Pan Problem

    There is a new Peter Pan movie* on at the cinema and thanks to the way my mind works I found myself looking up the idea of ‘Peter Pan Syndrome’ on Wikipedia. Turns out it is a ‘pop-psychology’ idea rather than something with more scientific grounding but ’puer aeternus’ (eternal boy) seems pretty well established…