Here is a familiar frustration. You are working on something, and you are almost certain another team has tackled the same problem before. You cannot find what they did, so you start from scratch. Two weeks later, it turns out you were right, It already existed. …
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 …
On Tuesday, individuals from across the MOJ's Corporate Services, including Estates, HR, Technology, Shared Services and Digital Services came together. All in attendance were leaders in some capacity, be it of teams, of areas, individual champions, line managers, middle managers or …
This week we finalised work on changes to the court finder ahead of the introduction of the single family court on 22 April. You can now quickly find out which...
