Delivering the 30 hours free childcare project
As we come towards the end of what has proved to be a successful project, these are the 6 biggest lessons for people taking on their first big project delivery role.
New Deputy Director role in the Standards and Testing Agency
We’re recruiting for a Deputy Director – Test Operations in the Standards and Testing Agency (STA). I’ve been doing the role since early 2017, and I’ve thoroughly enjoyed it. It’s become vacant because I am taking on the role of …
Rolling out the Teaching Vacancies service
Over the last few months we've tested our free national search and listing service for teaching roles in schools in Cambridgeshire, Peterborough and the North East of England. We've made improvements based on feedback and observation and are now ready to roll it out across England in stages.
What agile looks like in DfE Digital
This is a guest post from colleagues in the Department for Transport (DfT). We’ve recently been working on a discovery about agile. So we wanted to find out what agile means in DfE Digital and what we can learn. More …
Working with our users to design the 'Send data to DfE' service
What do we do I’m Juliet and I work in the ‘Send data to DfE’ project. It used to be known as Data Exchange. DfE collects all different kinds of information that’s then used to influence education policy and delivery. …
How to run a discovery for any project (not just digital ones)
This week, we ran a workshop on how to run a discovery (the first, early research and development stage) for any project, not just digital ones. About 60 people came from across government and other organisations. This post is about …
Teaching Jobs Team visits the Digital Accessibility Centre
The Teaching Jobs Team have been off to Neath, Wales to see first hand the work of the Digital Accessibility Centre to help us improve and understand what it’s like for people using our service. The analysts at the Digital …
How user insights helped us build a Teaching Jobs beta service
As product manager for the new Teaching Jobs service, I need to ensure that the service my digital team is developing is based on demonstrated user needs. Since my last post, the service completed the alpha phase of development and …
Introducing the User Centred Design Lab
My name is Kate and I head up the ‘User Centred Design Lab’, a new team based in the South East and South London region at the Department for Education (DfE). We’re working in an agile way to identify opportunities …
Using pair writing to improve internal guidance
...paired by opening up the Google Doc on our respective laptops and taking turns to write and comment. Pairing in this way was useful in terms of quickly bringing our...
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