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Leaving Homes England
After 4 fantastic years, I’ll be leaving Homes England in a few weeks.
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January ’22 – Important lessons learnt
Sharing some outputs from a retrospective session this week [When I say this week, I wrote this in January but forgot to press publish until August 🤯]: We experienced difficulty adopting OKRs as the mechanism of identifying, tracking and measuring success. The ‘why’ was unclear. KRs included external dependencies that the team did not have…
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December ’21 — Can we deliver leaner Programmes in Gov?
I went for a walk along the Embankment on Friday to clear my head from a long, and at times, frustrating week. The cold fresh air does absolute wonders for the mind, and made even better with some hot churros. So what’s been frustrating me recently? Well as a delivery person (and it doesn’t matter…
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Weeknote: 18 June 21 – T Shaped People
It’s been one of those weeks where the weekend can’t come soon enough. I’ve been feeling quite frustrated, demotivated and somewhat absent-minded. I’ve been unable to focus in meetings and it’s taken me ages to complete tasks. I’ve been increasingly doubting myself in situations where previously I’d be confident and assured. It could be due…
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Weeknote: 11 June 21
Things picked up momentum this week following a relatively quiet one the last week. My areas of focus this week were succession planning, team check-ins and more x-gov conversations with colleagues from DfE and Defra. Highlights One important update I forgot to mention last week was that I got my first COVID vaccination! Massive…
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Weeknote: 4 June 21
With school holidays this week, the ‘office’ has been a lot quieter, meaning less time in meetings and more time to tick things off the to-do list like writing this week note! Highlight With the Bank Holiday weekend, I was finally able to invite friends over after what feels like an eternity. Best of all, we got…
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Agile Delivery in Government
How to establish an agile, user-centred digital delivery function in Government organisations
