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Funding teams is hard
Back in October last year I wondered out loud why we couldn’t start funding teams not projects. At the time I rather naively thought that there was some senior person or group of people who just needed to be persuaded …
David Thomas, Delivery Manager, the Environment Agency
How showing the thing helped us simplify our MVP
Minimum viable products (MVPs) are a hugely important part of service development. By aiming to release as early as possible you reduce the risk of never releasing at all. You also get valuable feedback from users using the system in …
Let's fund teams, not projects
(Let me be clear up front: this is a potentially controversial post. It proposes radical change in the way we do things. But I feel strongly about it, and I think this needs to be said.) Over the last few …
What we've learned about preparing for discovery
Over the last year or so, I’ve heard a lot of colleagues in Defra talk about “pre-discovery”. They mean it as an additional phase of work to be done before discovery, which leads into alpha, beta and then live. My …