📅 Daily note for 4 October 2024

Jukesie shares his ideas⬈ for the new Digital Centre Design Panel⬈. They are very sensible. # Steve⬈ has shared a really good looking intro to product management course⬈ – it’s online and free. # How government defines a service⬈ (via…

📅 Daily note for 2 October 2024

Daily noting is rare at the moment, largely down to being busy, about which I should not complain! Lots of very interesting work, working with new people – which in itself is quite tiring. # LocalGovCamp last week felt different…

📅 Daily note for 18 September 2024

Am looking into intranets at the moment for a customer. If you have any good stuff to share, please do let me know! Have already heard from Essex County Council and of course Eleanor’s wonderful post⬈ on the topic too.…

📅 Daily note for 17 September 2024

How Rushmoor Borough Council set out to understand and resolve the issues preventing an effective and efficient freedom of information request service⬈. # Have ordered a copy of Platformland⬈, Richard Pope’s book on government digital services. Am looking forward to…

🏡 Moving house

Well, we have moved. It wasn’t an entirely joyful process, but we got everything shifted on the Friday 6th and by teatime Saturday most things were in their rightful places. It’s a bit galling because this is very much a…

📅 Daily note for 5 September 2024

We are moving house again this week. Lucky enough to have removals folk helping us, they are here packing boxes today, then the big shift happens next week. No broadband til the 13th, so that will be interesting! I hate…

📅 Daily note for 4 September 2024

Charlie Fountaine kicked off⬈ one of those conversations on LinkedIn: Why isn’t there a cookie-cutter website for local councils in the UK?…Imagine if we had a common system, similar to central government’s approach, with shared components and a unified content…

📅 Daily note for 3 September 2024

August was not the chilled out month I was hoping for! Took a week off for staycationing but otherwise was nose to the grindstone on really exciting work, but work nonetheless. Hoping to be able to poke my head up…

📅 Daily note for 1 August 2024

This note has been kicking around in my drafts for what feels like ages. Life’s been busy! # “Agile or not, it’s all about your worldview⬈” What do you believe about how the world works? Do you believe it works…

📅 Daily note for 23 July 2024

“The new Government must draw on the power of institutional memory⬈” Time and again, National Audit Office reports contain universally similar themes. Over-optimistic delivery plans mean budgets get burnt, deadlines are missed, governance is ineffective. # “Building visual literacy: Making…