What a content designer does in alpha
What a content designer does in alpha
Kaitlin D'Avella explains what content designers do in the alpha stage of a project.
A short film about the waste permits digital service
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Dominic Burton, Posted on:
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Data Transformation, Defra digital, Defra services, Digital transformation
A few weeks ago we posted a blog about how we’ve simplified the waste permits service. We've also made a short film about the agile team working on the service and how they are continually improving it based on feedback from users.
How showing the thing helped us simplify our MVP
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David Thomas, Delivery Manager, Posted on:
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Defra digital, Digital transformation
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 …
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 …
Invest in people if you want to transform
A few weeks ago, we were invited to speak at an internal event for managers in one part of Defra. The subject of our talk was "What are digital skills, and how do we develop them?" We think that good …
Quite enthusiastic about agile
How do you help people in a large organisation find out about the benefits of agile ways of working? Where can people go with specific questions about agile and how they should use it in their role? How do agile …
Stop irritating, start iterating
There’s a poster on the wall of our office in Warrington that says “ITERATE” in big letters on a bright yellow background. It’s there to remind us nothing we build is ever finished - there’s always something you can make …
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
Taking fresh water from any natural source is called "abstraction". Most people or organisations who want to abstract more than 20,000 litres of water per day from any single water source in England have to apply for a licence from …
Agile ways of working in HR
This is a post about how Defra is using user centred design and agile delivery practices to rethink its performance management arrangements. Agile is still quite new in government, but it’s more common in software delivery teams - it’s not …
What we learned from colleagues at MoJ
A few weeks ago, a group of people from Defra’s delivery manager community of practice paid a visit to colleagues at the Ministry of Justice. We’d heard great things about how they ran their own communities, and how those communities …
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