Using agile in policy-making
...policy proposals. Why did we use agile? Developing this product was a significant piece of fast-paced work that covered a number of sizeable policy areas, including health, welfare and employers....
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Carer’s Allowance reaches its 100th sprint
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Jo Clarkson and Mel Johnson, Posted on:
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Agile development, Carer's Allowance Digital Service
I’m Melanie Johnson, Product Owner for Carer’s Allowance Digital Service. And I’m Jo Clarkson, Delivery Manger also for Carer’s Allowance Digital Service. As we work really closely together in developing...
Our agile journey – part one: discovery
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Bryan Sharp, Delivery Manager, DWP Digital, Posted on:
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Agile development, Delivery Manager, Digital Service, Tax Credit Debt
...and internal DWP Debt Management staff tasked with reconciling payments received with individual debt accounts. Who are we? The core team consists of Tracy Drabble as Product Owner working alongside...
DWP’s Women in Technology group: Redressing the gender balance
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Carrie Quinn, DWP Digital, Posted on:
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Diversity, DWP Digital, Women in Technology
...and Product Owner to name a few. Our ambitious aims There’s been lots happening within the group since I joined in March, most notably we’ve re-energised for 2017/18 and defined...
Why I love agile (and why we need to stop talking about it)
...involves experimenting and non-linear ways of doing things - in turn, that makes life at work more fun! For example, teams can create a visual product map that everyone can...
Building a digital culture in DWP
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Jon Osborn, Posted on:
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Digital transformation, DWP Digital, DWP Digital Capability Building, Enabling Digital Delivery
...the process and too little on the outcome. To change this, product design teams need to spend a lot of time working with service teams to truly define problems and...
Helping the future generation solve tomorrow’s problems
...roles in a delivery team from user research to product management, and tasked the pupils with creating paper hats and boats. The most fascinating part was watching the difference in...
Building the Universal Credit Full Service
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Lara Sampson, DWP Digital, Product Owner for the Universal Credit Full Service (UCFS), Posted on:
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DWP Digital, Universal Credit Full Service
Universal Credit is one of the most important and special things I’ve worked on in my career. I’m Lara Sampson and I’m the Product Owner for the Universal Credit Full...
Guest post - The magic wand test: what women in digital want from recruitment
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Kate Glazebrook, CEO and cofounder, Applied, Posted on:
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Diversity, DWP Digital, Women in Technology
...to come and spend time with their product teams, and the overnight success of books like ‘Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls’ are a sign that people understand the power...
A day in the life of a Digital Data Engineer
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Michael Harrison, DWP Digital Data Engineer, Posted on:
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Data, Data Engineering, Digital, DWP Digital, Engineering
...Digital no two days are the same. Build work roughly tends to be in either: discovery, development, test and production phases. I often have to manage several pieces of work...