Digital by Default

Category: work

  • Remote working (a clarification)

    Remote working (a clarification)

    I think I have come across a little more negative about the concept of remote working than I intended in my earlier post. Actually I am entirely supportive of the idea and know organisations like Mozilla, Automattic, Open Knowledge, 37 Signals and many many others make it work brilliantly. Hell even JISC made a pretty…

  • People. Problems. Perspectives.

    People. Problems. Perspectives.

    I’m still thinking about the whole people conundrum at the heart of the agile, digital development approach we are taking. My consistent online whingeing has certainly identified that it isn’t an uncommon problem and it isn’t just the public sector facing it. There is clearly a something of a ‘talent shortage’ and the traditional brain…

  • I need a playbook for hiring..

    I need a playbook for hiring..

    If you follow me on Twitter I probably owe you a bit of an apology. In recent weeks I have become obsessed with using my networks to publicise a couple of jobs that we have open at ONS and I think I have probably pushed the patience of my network to the edge. It is…

  • Research for User Researchers

    Research for User Researchers

    [The role has been slightly tweaked and is now called User Experience Lead but it available again – the vast majority of this post is still valid] There are still a few days to apply for the two User Researcher UX Lead job with me at ONS and so I thought I would say a…

  • Power to the people

    Power to the people

    Last year I read a lot more of I guess you’d call ‘business books’. I’ve always bought my share of them but actually getting around to reading them was a whole different thing! Three of them were offering insights in to some of the most influential companies of the internet age (Pixar, Amazon and Google)…