MOJ Digital goes to Silicon Valley

Last week Chief Digital Officer Paul Shetler and I showcased MOJ Digital's work at the Leading Edge Forum Study Tour event in Silicon Valley.
Last week Chief Digital Officer Paul Shetler and I showcased MOJ Digital's work at the Leading Edge Forum Study Tour event in Silicon Valley.
During the weekend MOJ Digital sponsored and took part in the TechCrunch Disrupt Europe event. It is a startup-centric conference and hackathon where hundreds of developers come together and form teams to build something from the ground up in just 24 hours.
This week marked another milestone in the long trek to move justice content to GOV.UK, with the Youth Justice Board going live on the website.
MOJ Digital gathered under the great domed roof of the Methodist Central Hall on Thursday for a big team pow wow.
People often ask me: "is an agile approach relevant for non-digital or non-technology projects?" I always answer: "agile is for everyone."
...team’s job to ask what manner of clever product could make that process more human and easier to use. With these public decisions cropping up from legal areas as diverse...
...The agile values are a radical change from the past: individuals and interactions over processes and tools working software over manuals customer collaboration over contract negotiation responding to change over...
Two eagerly-awaited events crashed into our weary shared consciousness this week. Not only did Kate Bush return to the stage after 35 years (mmm, yes) but the Legal Aid Agency online content transitioned to GOV.UK. Over 3-4 months, captained by …
Point 5 of the GDS Design Principles is to ‘iterate and iterate again’. The work being done on court and tribunal finder is a perfect example of how this is being achieved through comprehensive 'A/B testing', analytics, and face-to-face user research.
We’ve developed a mission statement for the portfolio team in MOJ Digital Services to help us think through and communicate how we can best support the wider team to deliver. This is now displayed on our portfolio wall, and a handy answer to the question ‘what is digital portfolio management?’