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June 24’
Tackling people and resource challenges through different lens. Breaking down Retro outputs. More about governance.
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May 24′ – Just enough planning
Using Mural for planning and collaboration. How I pull together a delivery plan and prioritise tasks. How this can help with strategic planning. Also delivered a del. community session on service assessments.
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April 24′ – OKRs & Kick offs
Talk about working with delivery teams and clients across gov again. How to run an effective kick-off to establish a shared understanding and set yourself up for success. Also my experience of using OKRs to deliver change.
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March 24′ – Onboarding, Consulting & Delivery Training
Talk about my onboarding experience at Softwire and what advice I’ve received about transitioning to consulting. Also discuss a multi-pronged approach to delivery training, promoting continuous learning and development.
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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: 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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Digital Playbook
Over the last 12 months, the digital delivery team at Homes England have been supporting the organisation deliver strategic transformation projects and support our existing estate of applications. Alongside this core delivery activity, we have also been focused on our own delivery transformation to: Establish a Digital delivery Roadmap Optimise our portfolio and governance processes…
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Wheel of Misfortune
Identify Operational Risks with a Wheel of Misfortune For several months, we have been working on migrating a key service to a new Kubernetes platform. Whilst we have done security assessments and implemented protective monitoring, as we near the switchover date, there are a couple of things that keep me up at night: We don’t…
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How small tweaks can bring long-lasting process improvements
Reviewing processes and making tweaks can bring wide-ranging and longstanding benefits to a team
