How showing the thing helped us simplify our MVP
...application. We then put these screens on the wall underneath the full process, to show how much less we could do. We managed to reduce 72 pages to 22 pages,...
Defra digital
Personal data runs through the veins of our organisation
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Deborah Yates - Senior Data Lead in the Knowledge & Information Management team, Posted on:
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Data protection, Defra digital
We all need to protect personal information, we do this every time we lock our mobile phones, for example. It’s also important that we, as Civil Servants, protect the personal information that others share with us to help us create …
Stop irritating, start iterating
...an invalid postcode, the error message wasn't clear enough. It said: “Please enter a valid postcode in England.” Users seemed to be registering the ‘valid’ part of the instruction, but...
Modernising Data Protection
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Lisa Allen, Data Protection Programme, Posted on:
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Data protection, Defra digital
Digital technology has transformed almost every aspect of our lives. A lot has changed over the last 20 years since the last Data Protection Act was passed in 1998. In that year Celine Dion had a chart topping hit with …
An agile approach to water abstraction licences
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Harriet Green, Joint Chief Digital Officer and Myra Hunt, Joint Chief Digital Officer, Posted on:
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Defra digital, Digital transformation
...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...
What we learned from colleagues at MoJ
...collaborative, and meant we visitors could absorb a lot of new information in a very short time The whole workspace was better equipped for agile working, with flexible, moveable desks...
A new discovery for tracking waste
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Alistair Paul, Waste Regulation and Crime, Posted on:
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Defra digital, Digital transformation
A cross-government collaborative team recently started a discovery looking at how waste movements are tracked across the UK. The team is keen to hear from regulators and businesses, to find out more about their needs. In this post I’ll explain …
Change is hard, but better than not changing at all
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Harriet Green, Joint Chief Digital Officer and Myra Hunt, Joint Chief Digital Officer, Posted on:
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Defra digital, Digital transformation
...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...
Platforms can be products too
Like many other government organisations, we have embraced the Service Manual, and we’re increasingly putting service design thinking and agile working methods at the heart of our approach to delivery. It’s change, and change for the better.
Rethinking how people send us data
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Harriet Green, Joint Chief Digital Officer and Myra Hunt, Joint Chief Digital Officer, Posted on:
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Defra digital, Digital transformation
...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....
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