Local Government

People would love it if we could predict the future. We get this all the time in our work:

On UK Gov Camp 2020, Scrum Master training and working with agile teams.

Think about the last time you bought something at a shop or online: Did you care what brand of vehicle delivered the goods? Probably not!

In this post, we’re taking a closer look at another agile term: Backlog. The dictionary definition is:

I don’t think the people behind Scrum and other agile methods participated in sports very much. They seem to have borrowed a lot of sporting terms but haven’t used them very wisely.

Today is a big deal for me. For the last few years I have had a ball with colleagues at NTT DATA; working on digital and agile transformation whilst learning and sharing with a group of really smart and friendly people. From today, I am going to be working on digital and agile transformation whilst learning and sharing with a group of really smart and friendly people. So what’s changed?

In my last post[1] I mentioned that I was going to make a pitch about the UK Government Shared Services Strategy[2] at UKGovCamp. In the end I didn’t need to pitch as @lexij got there first with a great title: The Shared Services Strategy - OMG! Let’s fix it. This post is a personal reflection on what was discussed but the raw notes from the session are also available online[3].

Last week the UK Government launched a new strategy for shared business services (common things such as finance and human resources). The general reaction seemed to be quite negative, at least in my filter bubble. Most of the criticisms are probably reasonable but that may be because there are so few examples of sharing successfully at this scale in other countries or sectors.