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Spotlight on DDaT Webinars: Illuminating the World of Digital, Data, and Technology

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The Central Digital and Data Office (CDDO) showcase their Spotlight webinars, where experienced practitioners share their insights, experience and expertise with those not working in digital, data or technology roles.

Using robots to teach basic programming with North-East school students.

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This post explores how HMRC is using robots to encourage school girls in the North East of England to think about coding and to develop their STEM or related skills.

How I Co-Created the Delivery Managers Learning List

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In this post Myles Jarvis, a Delivery Manager at the Department for Education, takes you behind the scenes of the creation of the Delivery Management learning list, a useful resource for delivery managers, with the support of the cross-government delivery management community.

How do you attract more Software Developers into your department?

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The Software Developer Accelerated Apprenticeship offers an opportunity to existing civil servants to retrain as junior developers. Departments, apprentices and their line managers explain what they liked most about the programme.

What is 'product leadership' and what skills do product leaders need?

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People working in product management roles often have a very broad set of responsibilities, and the role can vary greatly between departments and teams. This makes product management a difficult discipline to learn without doing. Find out more about the skills you need to be a successful product leader.

Want to be a part of building and transforming the government of tomorrow? Meet us at Silicon Milkroundabout

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On 23 and 24 November, our digital, data and technology (DDaT) teams from across government will once again return to Europe’s largest tech job fair to engage and interact with thousands of candidates. Register to attend and visit us at our stand 106/107.