Happy 1st Birthday, Digital Academy! It’s been a year since we opened the doors of the first Digital Academy in Fulham Jobcentre. Back then, we ran an 8-week course, turning out the first cohort of 12 graduates who then went …
The other week, Nic Harrison talked about “fixin' to get ready” with the momentous task of transforming DWP. So what does getting ready mean? For me, it means two things: Stopping all the horseholding we do Learning how to leapfrog. …
Hi, I’m Kate Bruckshaw and I’m the Product Owner of a digital project to improve the way that people repay money to DWP. I graduated from the Digital Academy in July 2014. We’re transforming the way we operate to create automated, …
Ben Holliday recently posted a Digital Academy blog called ‘Understanding the problem’. It’s an introduction to understanding the problem when you’re working with a team on a service in discovery. As well as developing a research plan to get started, …
I’m Fiona Speirs, the Head of User Research in DWP. My aim is to embed the need to design all our digital services around our users. To do this, I’m building a User Research team in DWP. The User Research …
I’m Ryan Mallinson and I’ve been part of the DWP Digital Academy team for 18 months. I joined the team shortly before we welcomed the first Digital Academy in Leeds. The aim of the Digital Academy is to grow digital …
We’re boosting our digital capability in our Cyber Intelligence Response Centre (D-CIRC), to ensure we have intelligence-led cyber security for our online services to operate effectively and safely. We’re working with Government and private sector partners to build and mature …
...these throughout our design, so that they become part of the fabric of how we do things at DWP: Secure self-service wherever possible – our ability to create simple, secure...
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