Digital by Default

Tag: agile

  • [day note] The National Archives, Kew

    Today I was very pleased to take up the kind invitation from John Sheridan to visit his team at Kew. John is still relatively new to his role as Director of Digital at the National Archive but his work on Legislation.gov.uk was extremely influential on our thinking during the early stages of the ONS website…

  • [day note] DVLA, Swansea

    Thanks to Dudley, Lee and Ryan for taking time out of their days to chat to me and to Rohan for making it happen. It was a genuinely interesting couple of hours (and not only for finding a Grimsby fan in Swansea!). The DVLA digital team have been a major player in the GDS ‘revolution’…

  • Being a Product ONSer

    Part of my new role at ONS is to support* the Product Owner community of practice that is growing within the organisation. Part of the challenge here is that (a) we don’t quite define the role the same way as the rest of the agile universe (thus the name ‘Product ONSers’!) and (b) we don’t…

  • [What is it you actually do?] Matt Jukes

    ‘What is it you actually do?’ is a series of blogpost ‘interviews’ that ask interesting folk working on digital products in and around public service the age old question — ‘what is it you actually do?’. Shamelessly copying from Lifehacker’s ‘How I work’ series and ‘The Set Up’ blog. Who are you and what do you do…

  • [Still] lots to learn

    5 lessons I’m learning from the ONS Beta project One way or another I have made my living working on something web related since 1997. I’ve done that in libraries, universities, charities, startups, as a one man band and as a civil servant. I started writing HTML in Notepad, moved to using MS FrontPage and then…