I’m Emily Greenman, a second-year Digital Media student at the University of Leeds, and I’m one of six interns in the Digital Academy in the Leeds Transformation Hub this summer. As a digital media student, there are certain expectations you …
I’ve recently taken on the role of building project delivery and digital capability in the Business Transformation Group in DWP. I’m also a Programme Director for the Fraud, Error and Debt programme. We have several projects in private beta right …
Sommer and Sandra are graduates of the first cross-government Digital Academy. It was held in February this year, shortly before the Digital Academy celebrated its first birthday. Sandra works in the Legal Aid Agency; and Sommer within the NHS Health …
When we brought the Digital Academy together in February this year, we did some user centred design of the future Academy schedules. The Digital Academy is growing, and the ambition is to run 9 Academies at the same time over …
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 …
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 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 …
At the start of a project in ‘Discovery’ your team’s job is to learn as much as possible about what your users need to do. Your goal is to understand the user needs for the service before you start to …
The first DWP Digital Academy in Fulham opened for business on 24 February 2014. It was set up to help us increase our capacity and grow more of our own digital capability across DWP. This week we reached an important milestone as our 100th …
In my last blog I wrote about Business Transformation in DWP. We are leading a step change in the way that the whole of DWP operates. That means delivering the policy intent and the service citizens expect from government, in …
