A rota for retrospectives

In agile teams, the ‘retrospective’ is an essential – maybe the most essential - meeting we have. At the end of every two week sprint, we get together for an hour to reflect on how the work got done so …
In agile teams, the ‘retrospective’ is an essential – maybe the most essential - meeting we have. At the end of every two week sprint, we get together for an hour to reflect on how the work got done so …
The Health Product People community was started in January 2018 to bring together people working on digital services across the health and care space to share ideas, collaborate and work together to solve problems. The Health Product People community builds …
This blog post is about a survey the team conducted exploring what resources people/organisations need to help deliver the Healthy Start service.
This blog post offers teams some tips on what they can do between the Alpha and Beta stages of their project to maintain momentum and prepare for the beta.
The end of the ‘discovery’ for the health digital and technology pipeline At the end of July this year we held an event for our Arms Length Bodies (ALBs) to playback what happened during our pipeline assurance Discovery (you can …
The Department of Health and Social Care regularly asks for the public to engage with its work through different platforms. From sharing stories on GOV.UK to Twitter chats with community groups. On 10 September 2018, Matt Hancock launched Talk Health …
The Health Product People community was started in January 2018 to bring together people working on digital services across the health and care space to share ideas, collaborate and work together to solve problems. The Health Product People community builds …
Find out how to use a pre-mortem to anticipate what can go right and wrong in your project before you start. Pre-mortems can help teams to reflect on risks from a new perspective and spot opportunities they may have missed.
In the Digital Technology and Strategy team, we routinely team up with policy professionals to work on digital projects. Coming from different backgrounds and with different approaches, it is important to decide how the collaboration will work before starting work. …
Do we understand what our users need? This is one of the many questions we often ask ourselves as content designers. Working in a 'government bubble' means that from time to time we need to go out and seek to …