Debbie Blanchard and Olivia Helliwell share their experience leading a year-long cross-government co-design of the product manager role for the Capability Framework.
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.
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...
...spread across 460 pages. This means users may need to look at 17 pages to get all the information on just one job role. Our users don’t necessarily know what...
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.
Being a product manager involves working with teams to define a problem, what the solution is, and how the product is going to deliver that solution. Building consensus around a vision makes it much more powerful.
Technical writers are becoming increasingly important across government. From planning content, discussing Markdown to publishing docs as code, here’s an insight into what they do.
Cross-government communities of practice are growing across the Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) Profession. Find out about how the groups support their members, help career progression and increase DDaT capability across organisations.
...managing the GDS Twitter account, supporting internal comms and analysing intelligence on departmental engagement. I didn’t know what to expect about working at GDS, and I’ve found an amazing forward-looking...
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.
...a URL, I developed a tool to predict whether a URL is phishing or not. The predictions from this tool can and will be used as an indicator for automated...
