A blog about people, teams, culture, organisations, agile delivery and other things
Posts relating to working in government.
**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.
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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
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/
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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 training in agile project management?
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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
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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 at least as good as those people use at home, is following the service design pattern of: discovery, alpha, beta and live.
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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/
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Here at GDS, agile thinking and techniques inform how we do what we do, this extends from delivering projects, programmes and the GDS portfolio of work. I’ve been working with a team of people to implement and run an agile portfolio management function at GDS and this is an overview of how and why we did it.
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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.
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.
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As Mark mentioned in his blog post last week, daily stand ups at GDS take place in front of the team walls. The walls are a great focus for the teams, but they have a lot of other benefits that make them a key part of our day-to-day work.
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