The Science Office is the Ministry of Justice’s home for applied science, a team bringing expertise in foresight strategy, emerging technology and the natural, physical and behavioural sciences, to some of the justice system’s toughest challenges. From countering drones that …
In MOJ Digital Services one of the things we use our weekly portfolio stand-up meeting for is to talk about progress on our projects and any issues that teams need help resolving. When we recently had our portfolio wall covered …
Recently, the Information Services team, who have been working to deliver Court-finder and Tribunals Decisions Database (both available in public Beta) have re-invigorated their Agile approach in order to improve delivery of their products. As a result of the changes we've made, …
Last week MOJ Digital Services took part in the Public Sector Hackathon in London, and came second for an API! A ‘hackathon’ is an event in which developers get together - often over a long day or two - to …
We asked Peter Hickey, Head of Operations at HMP/YOI Rochester to give us the low-down on what it was like to be one of the first prisons in England and Wales to use the new online prison visits …
A couple of weeks ago the team here at MOJ DS hosted 'Sprint Justice', an interactive event about the future of digital in the justice sector. We had a fantastic turnout with over 200 delegates from MOJ, Whitehall and small and medium enterprises joining us to ‘talk digital’.
Portfolio management is about allocating our resources to where they make the most difference to achieving our objectives, but of course this simple explanation hides a lot of complexity! One of the main things we do in the portfolio team …
A significant amount our work in DS is focused on specialist legal content. As part of the move to make justice services easy for citizens and business users to use, the content team here in DS is working alongside their …
My first challenge as a new starter with MOJ Digital Services: improve content design for the employment tribunals (ET) exemplar. The exemplar is currently published as Beta , but as you’d expect from a Beta version, it needs some tweaking. Our primary …
I’m an Agile Coach and I wanted to share some of my recent experiences after taking up a new post at MOJ Digital Services following a stint working at GDS on the transition programme for GOV.UK. My agile approach Agile is the …
As the number of projects that we’re working on began increasing, we realised that we needed a better way of managing dependencies and style consistency. Introducing the MOJ template The result has been that our frontend development team has created …
