Year of the Dog: Notes from Major Heat

dà shǔ 大暑 Five things that happened 一 I introduced a GDS style ‘firebreak’ to the team for the latest sprint that has just finished. The idea of this is to give the team an opportunity to ‘scratch their itches’ on things that don’t make the top of the backlog sprint on sprint. Whether that is tech … Continue reading Year of the Dog: Notes from Major Heat →

Working open works (3)

Talk from Service Design in Government 20180307 I gave a talk at (the amazing) Service Design in Government conference yesterday as something of a last minute speaker (I got the call Sunday afternoon for Wednesday) and as such I didn’t create the talk in quite as structure way as I usually do . This meant … Continue reading Working open works (3) →

Working open works (2)

Talk from Service Design in Government 20180307 I gave a talk at (the amazing) Service Design in Government conference yesterday as something of a last minute speaker (I got the call Sunday afternoon for Wednesday) and as such I didn’t create the talk in quite as structure way as I usually do. This meant that … Continue reading Working open works (2) →

Working open works (1)

The importance of being open…

The power (and) peril of blogging your work Someone much smarter than me once wrote this and put it in a list that was pretty influential. Like all great lists it had ten points. The first got most of the attention but this one, number ten of ten, was the one I cared most about… …and … Continue reading The importance of being open… →