Digital by Default

Category: jobs

  • Top 10 tips for more successful job ads / descriptions

    ..based on my survey of 257 people, a handful of follow up conversations and a number of years curating my jobs newsletter. In no particular order these are 10 things that I think could improve 90% of jobs advertised in the Digital, Data and Technology space in public service (but based on less experience probably…

  • Probing public service product management capabilities..

    For an upcoming project my team are going to be investigating a clients current capabilities in their product management community of practice before embarking on a programme of coaching and support. As part of this we intended to do a bit of a survey to kick things off – and planned to use something we’ve…

  • Medium musings

    Medium musings

    Has there ever been an internet company that has had so many attempts at finding an identity as Medium? In eight years there have been paywalls, memberships, editorial teams publishing Medium ‘magazines’, features teased then half launched before vanishing…for most people but not all and now a set of new features that seems to basically…

  • July 2020

    It has been 20 weeks since I got back from Oslo and went into my premature lockdown. Since then I have ventured out further than my local corner shops twice – once to drop some art off to get framed at the beginning of the month and then Monday to the pub for lunch with…

  • The Only Way is Essex…Head of Product

    The Only Way is Essex…Head of Product

    I’ve been working with the Essex County Council Service Transformation team as interim Head of Product since April and as ever with these kinds of roles one of my main objectives is to help them replace me. Built in obsolescence 🙂  As subscribers to my jobs newsletter (you aren’t? Quickly go and fix that!) will…