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Testing Welsh content without a Welsh speaker

Testing Welsh content without a Welsh speaker

The prison visits team has been working on the Welsh language version of a new public service. Find out how we tested Welsh content as a team without a Welsh speaker. Getting Welsh language support Visit someone in prison is …

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A day in the life of...Bethan Palmer, Software Developer

Posted by: Bethan Palmer, Posted on: 18 July 2019 - Categories: A day in the life, Digital skills, Legal aid

What is your role at MoJ? I'm a Software Developer for MoJ Digital & Technology focusing on legal aid. This is my first Civil Service role. What did you do before you worked for MoJ? I was a Java developer …

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Security baseline in the Public Cloud

Posted by: Siddharthan Elangovan and Joel Samuel, Posted on: 14 June 2019 - Categories: Our services, Security and Architecture
A screen shot of a cursor pointing to the word security.

With over 120 AWS accounts and counting, we wanted to ensure they all met a common baseline… so we wrote one.

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Building a register of public-facing services

Posted by: Matthew Solle, Posted on: 6 June 2019 - Categories: Data, Our services, Registers, Technology
Screenshot of register of the homepage of the MoJ register of public facing services website

Understanding the scope of the citizen-facing services we provide is key to prioritising the things we work on, that's why we built a Register of public facing services.

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Removing unnecessary processes the right way

Posted by: Alice Cudmore, Posted on: 25 April 2019 - Categories: Design, Development, Legal aid, Our services

Layering Robotics Process Automation (RPA) on the front-end of systems might be right in some cases, but not always. In this post we talk about removing processes the right way - by working with our users.

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Predicting the future: researching users that don't exist yet

Posted by: Gemma Hutley, Posted on: 15 April 2019 - Categories: Our services, User research
Product ideas in the form of cereal boxes providing important insight into the main concerns and what the value of a digital service would be.

Since summer last year we’ve been researching the users of potential services to support Offender Management in Custody (OMiC). What’s the issue with that? Those users don’t exist yet. At least not in the roles and contexts that they will do.

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Neon-Green Horns - International Women’s Day

Posted by: Nabeeha Ahmed, Posted on: 8 March 2019 - Categories: Diversity and Inclusion, International Women's Day
Nabeeha Ahmed, Head of User Research

I can't think of a time when my gender has had a significant impact on my career. This revelation has stunned every single person who has heard it. They've looked at me as though I've sprouted neon-green horns.

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So is policy intrinsically a 'pink' job, and tech a 'blue' job?

Posted by: Amie Alekna, Posted on: 8 March 2019 - Categories: Diversity and Inclusion, International Women's Day
Amie Alekna, Head of Security and Privacy

So is policy intrinsically a 'pink' job, and tech a 'blue' job (bearing in mind that pink was a 'boys' colour until the 1920s...)? Surely not. This attitude is out dated, and dangerous. It has created an imbalance in society …

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Building a truly inclusive culture

Posted by: Kim R, Posted on: 8 March 2019 - Categories: Diversity and Inclusion, International Women's Day

The theme for this year’s International Women’s Day is #BalanceforBetter.

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What has User Centred Policy Design achieved in the MOJ?

Posted by: Jack Collier, Posted on: 27 February 2019 - Categories: Design, Digital skills, Our services, User centred policy design

Since 2016 I have been doing my dream job - working with policy officials to build policy in a user-centred way. In fact, I’d been desperate to do this job since working in a policy role in Climate Change. The …

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The Greatest Resources For Developers

Posted by: Daniel Penny, Posted on: 15 February 2019 - Categories: Development, Digital skills, Technology

The software development landscape is constantly changing. Focusing on just one technology, or even stack, can often leave a developer blindsided by a new approach, and there’s always someone claiming the latest shiny thing is better than an existing one. …

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