Reading Time: 4 minutes **Post updated Feb 2018** I have found myself explaining the role of delivery manager a lot over the last few weeks, so I thought I would share that description here to help others understand it. The term delivery manager is used to describe an essential set of skills on an agile team and is used in …
Category: Government
Posts relating to working in government.
An interview on Agile Government Leadership
Reading Time: < 1 minute I was recently asked to give an interview to the website Agile Government Leadership, a community-powered network of Agile government professionals based in the US, you can see it online over here
Best agile training? Just do it!
Reading Time: 2 minutes This is a post that I wrote for the Government Digital Service Transformation blog on Agile training which originally appeared over here: https://digitaltransformation.blog.gov.uk/2014/08/11/best-agile-training-just-do-it/ -o0o- Best agile training? Just do it! That’s the conclusion we came to when we asked our practitioners the question we get asked most often: how do I know how to get the best …
Making an IT service: design phases
Reading Time: 2 minutes I wrote a post over on the Cabinet Office technology blog about how IT service design maps to the GDS service design phases. The post originally appeared here: cabinetofficetechnology.blog.gov.uk/2013/12/02/making-an-it-service-design-phases -o0o- Much like any project at GDS or on the digital transformation programme the Cabinet Office Technology programme, which will deliver modern, flexible technology services that are …
Scaling Agile Practices to the GDS Portfolio
Reading Time: 5 minutes I have a second post on the GDS blog, this time it’s about a project that I have spend some time on whilst at GDS. I have added the full post below and you can read the original over here: http://digital.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/2013/08/30/scaling-agile-practices-to-the-the-gds-portfolio/ -o0o- Here at GDS, agile thinking and techniques inform how we do what we do, …
Guardian Video: GOV.UK : how geeks opened up government
Reading Time: < 1 minute The Guardian came to our offices to chat about all things GDS, I feature in here with the big GDS wall. Have a look over here.
The role of the agile wall at GDS
Reading Time: 4 minutes I have been a little quiet of late while settling in to my new job at Government Digital Services (GDS), but I did publish a post about the role of the agile wall over on the GDS blog. Read more it below, original published over here: http://digital.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/2012/12/19/the-agile-wall. -o0o- As Mark mentioned in his blog post last week, …