How to talk about agile, research and iteration without talking about it. — The team is incentivised to behave in flexible ways as we want them to react to changing circumstances easily. Why: we don’t want to become blinkered and unchangeable. How: detailed short term plans (2-6 weeks) and much more relaxed medium term plans (6–12weeks and beyond). The team takes qualitative and…

Dear reader. I’m starting to hate my public twitter account. I’m using this space as a way to think outloud, document things and fail forward. All mistakes, typos and inconsistencies are mine. No offence is intended. Would love your thoughts and replies. What is actually happening here? There is a paragraph in Adam Greenfield’s Radical…

Lots of organisations are talking about digital transformation. If you’re looking to hire someone to lead it, or if you’re going in to “transform” an org, I find it useful to ask these questions. These are the question I ask. These are what I really mean. What areas do you…

Spend control is hard. The Office of the Chief Technology Officer (OCTO) achieved loads; however it’s probably time for a shift. — I have just read https://www.publictechnology.net/articles/news/excl-gds-boss-reveals-latest-plans-spend-controls and it chimes with some of the pains we felt at the Ministry of Justice. Below is what I think GDS and the Departments should do. I assume it would fit any central/federated model of organisation that is having difficulty with their spend control.