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August 2020
This has been a month of pretty severe ups and downs and I’ve had to take the last few days of the month off to try and recharge and take stock. On the positive side I finally got out and went for lunch/drinks with two of my closest friends which was lovely, I’m still really…
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Testing my top 10 tips against the Government Chief Digital Officer job description
Yesterday I published the top 10 tips that came out of my research into job ads and descriptions for DDaT roles in public service. Then the new Government Chief Digital Officer role was published so I thought I would test my ideas against this high profile role! Now for the record I’m not having a…
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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…
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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…
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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…