Following on from my last blog and some of the feedback I received, I wanted to share the current delivery roadmap for the apprenticeship service with you. This starts to outline the most significant developments we are currently planning to …
My name’s Andy and I’ve worked for the Education and Skills Funding Agency for nearly eight years. For the past year, I have been helping to lead the delivery of the new apprenticeship service in my role as product manager. …
This is a two-parter: it follows Don’t bring policy and delivery closer together- make them the same thing, a great post by DfE policy advisor James Reeve. James is right to argue that policy (the plans and rules made by …
CDS was a challenging project, in terms of the scale of the work, its technically complexity, and the number of contractor organisations involved. We take a look at what we delivered and what we learned.
Barely a week goes by without a news report of hackers stealing customer data, taking a website or network offline or even remotely hacking and controlling cars. News of vulnerabilities are published online and exploited very quickly and this punishes …
Recently I was asked to facilitate a giant departmental retrospective. Retrospectives are a key part of agile development - they're a special meeting where a team gathers following the completion of an increment of work.
My colleagues know that I’m a bit of a Star Trek fan. People who remember the show will tell you that you could usually tell who was going to have something nasty happen them in that particular episode. You would notice a man in a red shirt, who you didn’t recognise, beaming down to the planet and within five minutes he had been vapourised by an alien death ray or poisoned by an innocuous looking plant.
Last week I attended the Scrum Alliance's Certified Scrum Master course and passed. It was a useful couple of days. I've been practising Scrum and Agile processes for a while now, so not everything on the course was new to me, but …
Back in March, I took the plunge of applying for a job within the Skills Funding Agency as a Product Manager. I'd worked previously at a FTSE 100 company, looking after their websites. Now I’m a Civil Servant I no …
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