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You are normal for Tiverton
I came from a small town called Tiverton, via Nottingham, to London. Sometime I may to write something about that journey here.
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The dark ages of digital government
Digital government got off to a slow start in the noughties. But I was there, and got amongst it. In late 2005 I launched the first ever blog by a Cabinet Minister, for a young David Miliband. It felt...
View ArticleChange on the inside: my part in the digital government revolution
This is a talk I gave at London’s Dare conference, in September 2013, about culture change and why digital people should be proud revolutionaries.
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Experiments in roadmapping at GOV.UK
In the summer of 2014 I led a piece of work to introduce a product roadmap, aligning the work of lots of separate agile software teams and improving comms with stakeholders. I wrote about it here on...
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Confessions of a first time sketchnoter
In September 2014 I had a go at taking sketchnotes and caught the bug. Here’s a post I wrote about how and why on Medium: Confessions of a first time sketchnoter. I’m still at it – you can see all my...
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GOV.UK’s firebreak: why and how we spent a month working differently
In January 2015 I led a month-long event for GOV.UK’s product and infrastructure teams. I’ve written about it here: GOV.UK’s firebreak: why and how we spent a month working differently and was...
View ArticleGOV.UK isn’t finished
“GOV.UK’s best feature is nothing we’ve built so far. It’s our commitment to continuous improvement.” GOV.UK isn’t finished – another post I wrote for the day job.
View ArticleThe vision for GOV.UK is to make government work for users
I took over as Head of GOV.UK in September 2015. Shortly after, I set about renewing the vision for where we’re trying to go – and this is the result.
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