Digital by Default

This is a short/short week for me that for reasons became even shorter and has left me with a super short weeknote. Honestly it has been a weird couple of days work wise. Change is coming in waves and the significant pivot that has emerged in the last week or so has left me discombobulated.…

Blooming heck. Well this week has been PEAK CIVIL SERVICE.  I don’t really know what I can say about it? Needless to say there were MANY Excel spreadsheets, Powerpoint org charts and Teams meetings discussing said documents.  There were unreasonable deadlines, moving goalposts and misunderstandings. Anything I had planned in weeks one to three is…

Amongst all the weeknotes, rants, jobs lists and nonsense I have written a few useful blogposts about working in agile and product management so I have collected my favourites here so I can point at them in the future. Grumpy agile – https://productforthepeople.xyz/grumpy-old-person-agile-d2465d875ac1?source=collection_home—4——0———————– An agnostic agile approach for the grumpy folks. Working open – https://productforthepeople.xyz/working-open-works-1-8de0bd983c1a?source=collection_home—4——1———————–…

After giving myself a couple of weeks just to immerse myself in the new job I worked a bit harder this week to reinstate a few habits and plans to protect my wellbeing a bit this time around. This feels doubly important as the aftermath of my recent bout of Covid has been especially unpleasant…

I really am enjoying the honeymoon period of this new job. Day by day I can feel the rust getting shaken off – not just from the sabbatical but also shaking off some of those consultant perspectives and letting my public servant instincts reassert themselves. It is an interesting time to join this organisation –…