Lessons from winning the GovTech Catalyst grant fund
Minister Oliver Dowden announcing the GovTech winners at Sprint 18 I was at Sprint 18 last week, where I got some good news: Defra has won a slice of the...
Iterating our digital principles
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Harriet Green, Joint Chief Digital Officer and Myra Hunt, Joint Chief Digital Officer, Posted on:
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Digital transformation
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 …
Digital means learning and iterating as you go
The more steps Defra takes towards becoming a user-centric, service design-focused organisation, the more we learn about changing the way we work and collaborate. That’s made more difficult in an organisation like Defra, which despite our best efforts over many …
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
...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,...
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
...It's an easy and accessible forum for people who want to know more about agile, or ways of putting it into practice, without having to set up meetings, book meeting...
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 …
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