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Crowdsourcing or crowdpleasing? Thoughts from #fdem10
Bit of an odd week with all this snow – sadly I ended up stranded in London rather than snowed in at home as our train line gave up completely – and am feeling a little cheated that as soon as I did...
View ArticleSolace Masterclass slides
I’ve also put this up over at the Public-i Blog but in case you are interested this presentation is around social change and the network society and picks up on some of the agile theme from previous...
View ArticleBecoming agile
I sometimes use the description of the internet as being very like a teenager, messy, difficult, and creative and with a tremendous energy and excitement that is not always focused constructively. The...
View Article#localgovcamp – Agile session
So – this is the write up from the agile session I led at #localgovcamp. Much of the preamble I started off with can be found in other blog posts but the core of the session was trying to move the...
View ArticleOpen comments to match open process
This is by way of a reflection on the creative councils programme and process rather than our specific project which I have covered off here. I meant to post it last week but as ever events overtook...
View ArticleAction Research Reflection with a little Agile thrown in
This is by way of a short Action Research reflection so if you are not interested in that kind of thing then move along! Next post will be the write-up of the Agile session at #UKGC12 and much more...
View ArticleTaking the Technology out of Agile – #UKGC12
This is my write up of the session that @pubstrat and I curated at UKGC12. Large apologies for the delay. @pubstrat and I have been meaning to have coffee and general catchup ever since UKGC11 and I am...
View ArticleDigital Leadership or just leadership?
Ok – so back at the desk and trying to find my blogging rhythm post PHD submission. I need to get into some kind of discipline with this I think. So – to do that I can tell you that coming up are posts...
View ArticleSocial Council: Thinking in Public
I spent last Friday in Solihull for the first ‘proper’ meeting about the Social Council – this post to an attempt to explain what it is – but not too much as I will explain. First then the current...
View ArticleCommunities of practice and the nature of knowledge
This is a write up (not review) of Architectures of Knowledge: Firms, Capabilities, and Communities by Amin and Cohendet (2004). It’s a recommendation from my supervisor for pre-viva reading but it...
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Adaptive programme management
I have been thinking about how you could best apply agile principle to project management for a while – you can read some of my earlier musing here. This draft programme design has been drawn from my...
View ArticleDemocracy in its many forms
This post is as a result of a single line in the suggested corrections for my thesis: “The candidate should provide a brief overview and/or explanation of what form of democracy is being referred to...
View ArticleCollapsing context
This is by way of a very quick reflection on last week. It was supposed to be one on the latest NHS Citizen design session but the whole week has felt very connected so I think it makes sense to think...
View ArticleNHS Citizen design – agile but structured
I wanted to capture my first reflection from the final NHS Citizen design workshop last week. I say final – the intention is that the shape and nature of NHS Citizen will continue to evolve but this is...
View ArticleWeek notes 3rd April 2017
I’ve fallen out of the habit of regular blogging for lots of reasons but I intend to get back to it. I find it a hugely helpful part of reflective practice and also core to an action research approach...
View ArticleFull stack decision making
A few years ago now I did a lot of work with a number of police forces and I was always struck by the fact that the best of them were very comfortable with the fact that while community policing needs...
View ArticleCreating a personal firebreak
I really enjoyed reading about how the Helpful Technology gang managed to create what they call a firebreak for themselves — a pause in their work that allows them both to work on their own projects...
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Big programme design and the willing suspension of disbelief involved
I haven’t written a lot about my time at Capita but I wanted to capture some of the thinking that I did in the last year I was there as its work that I am drawing on a lot at the moment and hopefully...
View ArticleMaking the whole greater than the sum of the parts
My team has a rich set of skills. We draw both from the established disciplines like business analysis and project management but also from the newer disciplines of user research, content strategy and...
View Article2019 enquiries: Getting started
I wrote at the start of the year that I wanted to open up my personal enquiry for the year and see who else is interested in the things I am interested in. I’ve spoken to a few people about this and...
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