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The Product Management Handbook for Government
Product management can be a vague profession, unclear to those of us doing it and misunderstood by our colleagues. So I wrote the Product Management Handbook for Government to help.
Announcing the Application Modernisation Team
verb: modernise “adapt (something) to modern needs or habits, typically by installing modern equipment or adopting modern ideas or methods” (Google dictionary, accessed 18th November 2018) We are forming the Application Modernisation Team to work on modernising our legacy technology.
Why we ran a ‘design sprint’ on child sexual exploitation
Design sprints are a methodology pioneered by Google to tackle difficult ‘digital’ problems. The main idea is to bring people together from different disciplines and intensively facilitate them through a process to draw out new and innovative ideas.
A day in the life of...Kim R, Head of Engineering
In this series we offer an insight into the working lives of people within digital and technology roles across Ministry of Justice Digital & Technology. In this post Kim, Head of Engineering, talks us through her day...
A day in the life of...Alison MacLeod, Lead User Researcher
In this series we offer an insight into the working lives of people within digital and technology roles across Ministry of Justice Digital & Technology. In this post Alison MacLeod, Lead User Researcher, talks us through her day..
How we’re making our hosting simpler, more cost-effective, and more modern
At the Ministry of Justice (MOJ), we have thousands of different systems running on many different types of hosting, from modern, hyper-scale cloud providers like AWS and Azure all the way through to physical servers in data centers and server …
‘Nudging’ separated parents to agree arrangements for their children
“If you want to encourage people to do something, make it easy.” That’s what Richard Thaler, latest Nobel Prize winner in economics, proposes we need to do to influence human behaviour.
Another step towards more efficient prisons
In a new prison pilot, the MOJ prisoner money team tests a digital way of sending prisoners’ money out
An experiment with professional triads
In MOJ Digital and Technology over the last few months we have been establishing new professions and developing our existing communities of practice. In the Delivery Management community - one of our longer running professions - we are always seeking …
Recruiting in the open: a taste of life at MOJ digital
This is my first government role and I found the recruitment process different, to say the least! One of the main differences was an open evening that I attended before I had even submitted my CV. This was a first …