Joint Chief Digital Officer for the Defra group
In a year like no other, the list of achievements from our teams is really worth celebrating and makes us very proud. It also makes writing this blog difficult because...
It's 5 years, almost to the day, since the Defra digital blog was launched. So it’s a good time to look back at our achievements – and look forward to our future plans.
To mark International Women's Day 2019, Harriet Green and Myra Hunt, talk about their experience of job sharing the Chief Digital Officer role at Defra.
Let's talk about legacy software. Every large organisation has some. We have plenty. When we say 'legacy', we usually mean software and systems that are old. But old software isn’t necessarily bad software.
More than a year ago, our predecessor Sally Meecham wrote about Defra’s digital principles, saying how they acted as a useful way of setting out our approach to simplifying services and cutting out complexity. A lot’s happened since then. In …
...existing licences. Good prioritisation means faster progress. More advanced features, such as applying for or renewing licences, can be added later. … be flexible - by adjusting the way they...
...who have had to make considerable changes to the way they work. We’re grateful to them for their patience while we move from old to new. But the important thing...
...it. At the same time, there has been no standard way to check data against the limits set in the permit. Assessing that data is a relatively slow manual process....
...it's very hard to update the database behind the scenes, so when new waste controls are created for new waste products, or to reflect changing policies in foreign countries, the...
We took over as Defra’s joint Chief Digital Officers back in July. Since then, we've spent a lot of time meeting a lot of different people at all levels around the organisation, asking questions and listening.
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