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A little kindness goes a long way

Posted by: Danielle Vincent, Posted on: 17 February 2021 - Categories: Defra digital

To celebrate National Random Acts of Kindness Day Defra Digital Senior Content Designer Danielle Vincent shares her experiences of giving and receiving kindness during lockdown.

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Waste carriers: don’t call us, we’ll email you

Posted by: Andrew Hick, Lead Test Engineer and Iris Faraway, Lead Developer, Posted on: 19 October 2020 - Categories: Defra digital, Defra services
computer showing waste carriers service next to a bin

Andrew Hick and Iris Faraway, from the Ruby Waste Services team, explain the changes they and their team have been making recently to remove the pain from waste carrier renewals.

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Using an incubation to design an MVP in two days

Posted by: Jessica Bonham, Posted on: 2 July 2018 - Categories: Defra digital, Digital transformation, Smarter working
People in a workshop

Agile teams aim to release early and often, starting with a minimum viable product (MVP) and iteratively building on it. But choosing what to put in an MVP is hard. You don’t want to release something that delivers little or …

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Partnership in Practice

Posted by: Ad West, Posted on: 20 November 2017 - Categories: Data Transformation, Defra digital, Defra Science and Innovation, Defra services, Digital transformation
approaching service design using a range of prototyping tools, including miniature farm models

Read a blog post about the Defra Livestock Information Programme - which is working with industry to transform how we track future livestock movements in the UK.

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What we mean by 'digital'

Posted by: Harriet Green, Joint Chief Digital Officer and Myra Hunt, Joint Chief Digital Officer, Posted on: 13 November 2017 - Categories: Defra digital, Digital transformation
Harriet Green and Myra Hunt

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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Inductions for teams, not just organisations

Posted by: James Cattell, Posted on: 18 April 2017 - Categories: Defra digital, Digital transformation
A daily standup (left to right @jaCattell, @d_jburton, @ewebber and @PhilipBowen_Dig)

A blog from James Cattell about being inducted to the Defra Digital team and his thoughts on comparing this to a traditional organisation induction.

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Introducing the Enabling Digital Transformation team

Posted by: Colin Banno-Thorton, Posted on: 13 April 2017 - Categories: Defra digital, Defra services, Digital transformation
We are trying to make Defra simpler and clearer

Our job is help Defra deliver good digital services, mainly by supporting the teams that do the delivering. In this post, I'm going to explain how we think, what we do, and how we work.

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Digital Transformation on Natural England’s National Nature Reserves?

Posted by: Ella Hayden, Posted on: 3 April 2017 - Categories: Defra digital, Defra services, Digital transformation
Sally Meecham visiting Shapwick Heath with Natural England

How could we use digital technology to help deliver Natural England’s conservation responsibilities?

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Creating a digital Defra - Part 2

Posted by: Simon Hall, Posted on: 6 October 2016 - Categories: Defra digital, Defra services, Digital transformation, Open data
Jersey cow with identification tag in ear

A blog about the opportunities and challenges in developing digital services for Defra's Livestock Information Programme

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Creating a digital Defra - part 1

Posted by: Betsy Bassis, Posted on: 4 October 2016 - Categories: Defra digital, Defra services, Digital transformation
Defra visit to a sheep farm

The first of a two part blog about how digital services and technology will make it easier for our customers to engage with us.

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