Weeknotes 13-17 May
We’re approaching our final sprint, and we’re doing everything we can to make sure we get over the finish line. Take a look at what we've been up to.
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Weeknotes 6-10 May
We've been working extra hard to get essex.gov.uk looking its best for launch. Find out what else we've been up to this week.
Weeknotes 29 April-3 May
We're settling in to our new space, but we've not slackened the pace as we get everything prepared for essex.gov.uk's go-live date. Find out what we've been up to this week.
Weeknotes 22-26 April
Another short week, but we're rumbling ever closer to being ready to share essex.gov.uk with the world. Here's what we've been up to.
Weeknotes 15-19 April
It's been a short week but we've managed to deploy, review and welcome some new arrivals. Have a read what we've been up to.
Weeknotes 8-12 April
We're hurtling through the beta phase of the essex.gov.uk project, so we thought we'd take a breath to let you know what we've been up to this week.
Agile: the writing's on the wall
Two of our project managers went undercover in an agile Service Design team. Here's what they found.
Older workers: the next Futures Academy research project
Over the last 2 decades changes to the pension age has meant the group of people leaving the labour market has got older. People are having to stay in work for longer. For manual workers especially, this presents problems. Many …
Introducing risk: a way of finding new fixes for old problems
I recently took part in design activity around the Essex website alpha and Futures Academy. This work has made me reflect about how the purposeful introduction of risk within the design process can help create better solutions in a way that established ways of working do not.
Day 4, Futures Academy: Ideas to prototypes
We had our biggest turn out at this morning’s stand up. There is a growing interest in what we’re doing and conversations are already starting about how this would work for other teams, which is really exciting. After the stand …