Introduction to weeknotes Its been a while, its been exhausting, and I’m far from rested. However, I am going to try to write a short summary of each week over the next three months to record my pr...

Markets are the source of all ills in the capitalist world, right? This was my instinct before I started my MPA. Coming from a background in environmental worrying and occasional campaigning, it ce...

I’m at the Scottish AI Summit and connecting with it better than last year. It’s in part a shift in practise, what seemed aspirational and abstract for policymakers in the past is coming alive in t...

Two years ago, I was struck by a talk at AIUK 2021 from Mahlet (Milly) Zimeta of the Open Data Institute. Zimeta presented on Decolonising the data and drew on classical literature to gain insights...

MVP of organisation structure While starting a previous post, I speculated about specifying MVPs for non-digital solutions. In an idle conversation with a colleague recently, I suggested that the a...

Complete a Wardley Map for a government or university service/system of your choice. Please write a short statement (500-1000 words) about any insights doing this work revealed to you. A Wardl...

Complete a Wardley Map for a government or university service/system of your choice. Please write a short statement (500-1000 words) about any insights doing this work revealed to you. A Wardl...

From the Complex Sprawling Disappointment (CSD) to the Minimum Viable Product (MVP) Working in the public sector I have witnessed several large digital projects that have never really delivered. T...

From the Complex Sprawling Nonentity (CSN) to the Minimum Viable Product (MVP) Working in the public sector I have witnessed several large digital projects that have never really delivered. They t...

From the Complex Sprawling Nonentity (CSN) to the Minimum Viable Product (MVP) Over more than two decades working in the public sector I have witnessed several large digital projects that have nev...