My tips for inclusive product workshops - new blog post below...
In summary: plan ahead, shift power to the team, make it all playful 🥳✨
Thanks to @claragt, @sonia_stevenson & the https://t.co/6B8hMWqjld Verify team 🥰
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@TheRealNooshu@bandyroos Thanks - glad you're picking it up Matt! Should be easier now AWS has committed to providing data which we didn't have before.
@loft27design@WhichUK As a GDS colleague this is a big loss for us, but as a paying subscriber to Which I'm delighted to know you'll be helping them make their subscriber experience as good as it can be. Happy to share my experience :-)
@craigjbass Agree about hypotheses and experiments perhaps superseding the need for user stories (which are more like training wheels). Also, interested in the best cycle length for experiments. I know @LisaTalia at MOJ chooses 3-weeks to give the team enough time to reflect.
Product Managers in gov: who's out there doing (or trying to do) continuous discovery?
What is one experiment your teams tried in the past year that you're proud of?
Please retweet, I'm feeling rusty and in need of inspiration...
@JonnyFWilliams @HimalMandalia @myddelton For our roadmap, we care about the "sequence" of the outcomes & benefits we're delivering and expect it to change as we learn. And, we are sometimes expected to commit to deliver things at certain times by stakeholders. We carve out as much agility as we can...
@JonnyFWilliams @HimalMandalia @myddelton My impression is we're a bit more self-organising in our programmes than we used to be. Speaking for Digital Identity, we have OKRs at the 3 year and one-year levels. We work in six-week increments using OKRs (aka missions).
I'm aware that Defra have been doing "trials" in partnership with farmers and land managers. Seems like continuous discovery meets co-design. V interested in how you co-create the measures of success @DefraDigital@JanetHughes
@antlerboy@danhilton@cjforms@Emmastace Wow, insightful question. :-) I read @HilaryCottam's Radical Help recently. It made me realise that co-design with communities can produce stunning results, compared with a top-down approach. Can we get there by embedding *both* central & local gov designers with communities?
This podcast by my colleagues is honest, brave and thoughtful about how to build services that work for government teams. A worthwhile listen for anyone in government. Props to you @Fearless_T79 and @hptrippe and @myddelton 👏
Together with teams across government we’re creating a single sign-on and #DigitalIdentity solution that works for all services and their users. Want to get involved: listen to this month’s podcast to find out how: https://t.co/BfoEAoRPp6
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Finally had a moment to write about @JanetHughes talking about the Future Farming and Countryside Programme at the UK Parliament's Select Committee.
See what she said about co-design: https://t.co/rPfMmimhv7
Hey! When you make a tweet that is solely an inducement to feel complete despair, remember that folks who struggle, but aren't currently despairing, could have their whole day run into a brick wall of fear when they read it. You're laying your intrusive thoughts like landmines.
@HarryTrimble What I've experienced personally is that confidence *takes less effort* to maintain and grow to the extent we have privilege, and are surrounded by others like us.
@sonia_turcotte I hear you. It is life-giving to face up to the climate crisis and find a way to live that's truer: more aligned with it, less in denial of it... Beautiful that you are surrounded by others doing it too!