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Out in the field...
Its been a busy few weeks since our last update. Some of us have started on a new project, we've delivered a presentation to a conference of 400 people whilst still continuing on the journey of building our capability. Shortly …
Ian Tidmarsh
DWP Hack Day (now with extra Raspberries!)
On 16th April we held the first DWP Hack Day in Preston. The day was attended by 10 enthusiastic people within DWP IT, including the DWP Developer team. Attendee's were; Paul Anderson Paul Bowman Wayne Hopkins Nathalie Harrold Donna Kirk …
Hack to the future
As part of our continued development, we have been discussing the idea of holding a “hack day” This is hacking in a good way, nothing to do with hacking into the Pentagon! We will have a group of a approximately …
Day one on location........
On Wednesday (02/04/14) Adrian and I started the next part of our journey and joined the project at Carers Allowance in Preston. We arrived in time to join in the daily morning stand up. This is a short meeting for …
Trainee Developers driving Digitalisation forward
In January we completed an introductory training course in programming. The trainees - Ian Tidmarsh, Nathalie Harrold, Mike Morris, Adrian Stone, Donna Kirk and Paul Anderson (all from IT Project Directory) - now have an understanding of the fundamentals and …
Developing the future
DWP as an organisation is working to develop its digital capability and we're a small group within the department that's getting really hands-on to develop the skills and experience we'll need to make the next generation of DWP's digital services. …