Digital by Default

Tag: Digital

  • The #jukesies 2015

    Blogger of the year It felt like this was the year that blogging in one format or another returned in a big way — no small part in fact to Medium. In and around the digital transformation work going on in Government a number of bloggers emerged and I particularly enjoyed the writings of Andrew Besford (DWP) and…

  • We need to talk about…Service Assessments

    Pretty much everybody involved in UK [central] Government digital work these days knows about the GDS Service Assessments. Created to provide a level of peer review and assurance around compliance with the Digital by Default Service Standard they were envisioned as a way of building trust in the previously utterly untrusted — Government technology project delivery. Almost…

  • [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…

  • 10 Jobs I found interesting this week

    12th December 2015 Digital Service Managers x3 (Office for National Statistics)Newport or Fareham Head of Digital (BBC Academy) Birmingham Head of Digital (Alzheimer’s Society) London Strategy Director (Blue State Digital) London Data Analyst (FutureLearn) London Ximbio Product Manager (Cancer Research) London Product Manager (UKTI) London, Cardiff or Sheffield Head of Digital Services (Forest Enterprise Scotland) Edinburgh Service Manager (Passport Office)…

  • The Pig strikes back

    While I understand where it comes from there is nothing I dislike more than the current trend in and around digital government to dismiss (and dismiss is totally the right word for how it comes across) any web project as; Lipstick on a pig. When Dave Briggs, someone I’ve known for years and mainly agree…