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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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...government.” Building the best public services starts with people We believe that building the best public services starts with people because without people there isn’t a service. We can only...

Being on the Digital, Data and Technology Fast Stream

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In this blog post you can read 2 different perspectives on the scheme. Both Fast Streamers are in their third year and work at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), but one joined after nearly 30 years in the Civil Service and one joined straight from university.

Companies House: building a more rewarding workplace for Digital, Data and Technology Professionals

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Companies House has been working to make sure that all their employees have rich and rewarding work lives. This has included implementing the Digital, Data and Technology Profession Capability Framework.

How we’re developing the product leaders of the future

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As heads of product in government, we believe that product management is best ‘learnt by doing’.

Working with external organisations to build diversity across the DDaT Profession

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...drive diversity initiatives across the profession. Dame Sue Owen, former Permanent Secretary at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Champion chaired the...