Digital by Default

Digital by Default

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…

August 10, 2020
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…

August 2, 2020
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…

July 30, 2020
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…

July 21, 2020
Initial findings from jobs descriptions survey

257 people responded to my survey about what job seekers are looking for from job desscriptions/ads. There is a lot to dig into properly and I intend to do some follow up interviews – and then share a bunch of the raw data (maybe not the free text? Will have a think.) Here are a…

July 20, 2020