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An agile approach to water abstraction licences

Posted by: Harriet Green, Joint Chief Digital Officer and Myra Hunt, Joint Chief Digital Officer, Posted on: 1 February 2018 - Categories: Defra digital, Digital transformation
Screenshot of water abstraction beta

...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...

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Agile ways of working in HR

Posted by: Jamie Arnold, Posted on: 30 January 2018 - Categories: Digital transformation
Detail from the team's discovery wall

...it encourages all sorts of unintended behaviours. People genuinely want to learn how to improve their performance, but they need to feel supported and encouraged to do that. A rigid,...

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What we learned from colleagues at MoJ

Posted by: Frieda Davies, Posted on: 24 January 2018 - Categories: Defra digital
Delivery managers community at work

...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...

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A new discovery for tracking waste

Posted by: Alistair Paul, Waste Regulation and Crime, Posted on: 15 January 2018 - Categories: Defra digital, Digital transformation
Waste tracking discovery team at work

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 …

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Change is hard, but better than not changing at all

Posted by: Harriet Green, Joint Chief Digital Officer and Myra Hunt, Joint Chief Digital Officer, Posted on: 12 January 2018 - Categories: Defra digital, Digital transformation
Custom software created using Kirona

...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...

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Platforms can be products too

Posted by: Colin Banno-Thorton, Posted on: 15 December 2017 - Categories: Defra digital

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.

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Rethinking how people send us data

Posted by: Harriet Green, Joint Chief Digital Officer and Myra Hunt, Joint Chief Digital Officer, Posted on: 1 December 2017 - Categories: Defra digital, Digital transformation
Screenshot of the report landfill data service

...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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About our guide to discovery

Posted by: Tracy Green, Posted on: 30 November 2017 - Categories: Defra digital
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We've just published A guide to discovery (in alpha). We'd like you to tell us what you think of it.

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Taking action on age diversity in Defra

Posted by: Betsy Bassis, Posted on: 24 November 2017 - Categories: Defra digital
Carol Deakins

...a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone can thrive. As we look ahead to the coming year, I’m particularly interested in exploring the intersectionality between age and other aspects diversity....

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Putting the Service Toolkit to work

Posted by: Harriet Green, Joint Chief Digital Officer and Myra Hunt, Joint Chief Digital Officer, Posted on: 22 November 2017 - Categories: Defra digital, Digital transformation
Waste export controls tool alpha

...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...

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