What is your role at MOJ? I’m a Content Designer and I’m responsible for creating content across end-to-end user journeys. It’s not just about writing words, it involves working with others to really understand the needs of users and build …
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 …
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. …
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.
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.
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.
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...
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..
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 …
“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.
In a new prison pilot, the MOJ prisoner money team tests a digital way of sending prisoners’ money out
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