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.
Our services
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.
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.
An experiment with professional triads
...different grades (Associate Delivery Managers, Delivery Managers and Senior Delivery Managers). This meant they would each have different experiences and might not otherwise interact regularly Triads would meet monthly as...
Pushing the boundaries of data science with the MOJ Analytical Platform
It’s a great time to be an analyst at the Ministry of Justice. Our new Analytical Platform is giving our analysts access to cutting edge open source tools, improving our ability to use data and evidence to drive decision making.
System vulnerabilities: the good, the bad and the ugly
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Greg Smith, Posted on:
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Digital skills, Our services, Security and Architecture
...responsibility model such as those available with AWS or Azure, who are able to dedicate more time to patching vulnerabilities than we would be able to. We’re the first in-house...
How to build and release a digital by default service in 12 weeks
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Kaz Hufton, Posted on:
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Design, Digital skills, Lasting power of attorney, Our services
I’m the Product Manager for the Power of Attorney (POA) refunds service for the Office of the Public Guardian (OPG). My team and I built a digital and assisted digital service (no paper version) to meet a need that hadn’t …
Guest post: So long, silos - how content collaboration helps users
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Nadia Huq (Home Office), Posted on:
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Content, Design, Our services, User research
When content is king, we have to stop thinking about departmental boundaries I'm part of a group of content designers from the Home Office who recently partnered with the MOJ User Centred Policy Design team to improve information for victims …
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