The limits of agile - can we apply it to policy making?
On Saturday, I went to UK Govcamp 2015, an all-day event where 200 people interested in innovation, data and digital in the public sector (among other things) get together to...
On Saturday, I went to UK Govcamp 2015, an all-day event where 200 people interested in innovation, data and digital in the public sector (among other things) get together to...
...innovation in organisations reduces risk (via @mrsihill). The new issue of Civic Quarterly includes a digital inclusion article from GDS and other pieces on participation and design (via @jessmcmullin). The...
...DWP User research and testing, from GDS Prototyping in government, from Policy Lab (troopers on their third straight session!) Embedding agile coaches into policy teams, from MoJ https://storify.com/OpenPolicyUK/open-policy-2015-wednesday...
...delivering learning from Futurelearn, Live/work, Nesta, and Userfocus, to keep us grounded in current practice in teaching and learning in user experience, design, service design and social innovation. Even this...
...our colleagues in departments for their content and input and also Dem Soc and Involve for help with user research. We look forward to hearing what you think. @kriszkatona ...
...to large scale interventions. Carrots or sticks These styles of intervention include traditional law-making powers (sticks) or applying softer influencing powers (carrots) such as system stewardship. In reality policy-making is...
...government intervention into a set of cards which were tested in our session with DfT. We made these cards to push policy-makers to think bigger about the potential levers available...
...Conference in Ottawa, Canada attended by 1200 open data practitioners and enthusiasts inside and outside government presented an opportunity to experiment with and test the Network of Innovators, an expert...
...- or prototypes - are in the policy world, and have been trying out sketches, paper prototypes and testing things out in the field. People are experimenting and interest is...
...professional to get to the point where they can hypothesise, based on real insight, define a theory of change and possible intervention, and do the a/b testing and/or pilots that...